| Description | Written from the Camp before Sebastopol.
Very cold waether, frost, inclined to thaw mid-day: with a pony now getting on better: getting a brazier and coal to make tent warm, not dangerous as all braziers put out at night: the Waller who fried the pancakes, as mentioned in letter to the Times, not him, probably a Walter, as no other Wallers known to him in the army: loose tweed coats lined with rabbit of hair skin given out being warm, comfortable and articles of fashion, style now considered more important than before because there is nothing to do other than trenchwork and nothing to be done for 2-3 weeks: statement in the Times about the 7th being only 17 strong, whereas he knows they have never been less than 200 and with 100 at Balaklava coming up they are to be 600: Mr Carr, who lived in Brussels, being at Scutari on duty for a month and not having come up: feeling well, which he will be unless said to the contrary.
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