| Description | Written from the Camp before Sebastopol.
Supposition that she came out in dashing style having left Rosselburg: news of English and French expedition to Kertsch and its being taken (without loss of a man), together with guns and food supplies: reports of Russians blowing up magazines and ships: navigation of the Sea of Azov in allied hands: arrival of Turks and Sardininians to help take Sebastopol: Russians having few guns: supposition of trip on Sophy's birthday: weather very hot, with some thunder but only a few drops of rain: movement of the Turks and Sardinians in the plain to turn the course of the Tchernaya to cut off the Russians' water: no news to tell, with everything very slow: group photograph taken by a "photographic man" of most of the officers in the camp, in which he does not think he looks sulky: a copy to be sent home for them to judge.
Sheet, with 4 pages of text.
[Katherine Mary was the eldest daughter of Thomas Wathen and Catherine Waller, married James Sydney Stopford 10 Mar 1868, and died 1 May 1884] |