| Description | First page: Letter from Melville, Admiralty, to Professor Inman, 15 Mar 1816; receipt of letter of the 8th: no prospect of early promotion for Franklin, with navy on peace establishment and promotions restricted.
Second page; Letter from J. Inman to Franklin, 17 Mar 1816; on the other side is Melville's reply: assures him that lieutenants' apartments are sufficiently commodious; it matters little wether he applies to the Board of Admiralty or the First Lord about the lieutenancies. |
| Recipient Location | Mavis Enderby near Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire |