It is to be regretted that the Correspondence is so comparatively scanty, for no doubt at one time the collection was a good deal larger. From Nichols’s _Literary Anecdotes_ (vol. v. p. 376) we know that the Haddock papers were placed in the hands of Captain William Locker, the Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who contemplated a publication of naval biography which was carried out by Charnock in his _Biographia Navalis_ from the same materials. There is also evidence among the papers themselves, in the form of a letter written by Charles Haddock in 1792, to show that they were placed in Locker’s hands. The fate of borrowed books and papers is a mournful one. But, few as they are, a selection from the Haddock Papers has been thought worthy to appear in print. As specimens of the letter-writing of a seafaring family of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the letters have a value of their own, even apart from the personal interest which they inspire as the record of long and honourable service. E. M. T. _24 March, 1881._ Richard Haddock, Captain in the Parliamentary Navy, = ... d. 22 May, 1660, æt. 79. | | +-----------------------+-----------------------+ | | Anna ..., = William Haddock, Richard Haddock, = ... d. 6 Jan. | Captain in the R.N. | 1688, | Parliamentary Navy, | æt. 78. | d. 22 Sept. 1667, æt. 60. | | [William Haddock, | Captain R.N., | d. 1726.] | +---+----------------------+---------------+--------+ | | | | 1. Lydia = Sir Richard Joseph Haddock, William Andrew [Stevens]. | Haddock, R.N., and East Haddock, Haddock. 2. Elizabeth | Admiral, R.N., Indian Service. R.N. ..., d. 26 | d. 26 Jan. Feb. 1709, | 1715, æt. 85. æt. 59. | +---+--------------+--------+------+-----+----+ | | | | | | | William Haddock, | A dau. | A daughter, | d. 1697. | m. ... | unmarried, | | Lydell. | d. 24 Mar. 1. Martha ... d. = Richard | | | 1732. 1722. | Haddock, R.N., | A son. | 2. Elizabeth ... | Comptroller | | d. 1730. | of the Navy, | | 3. Mary, daughter | d. 1751 | Elizabeth = John Clarke, of Charles | | Haddock. | of Blake