| Description | Written from Constantinople.
Arrival of letter before leaving Therapia, while calling on the Napiers: applying for passage to get to the Crimea in a day or two: stopping in Pera then, waiting to go up: having seen Mr Cumberbatch yesterday and gone out riding with him when at Therapia: having seen General Church's valet (at Athens, beginning with the letters Ya), who wished him to tell his father of being seen: hope of their having all his letters right: Miss Weir [Wear] saying she would write when he was at Balaklava: closing his letter, having to get to Scutari by 12 o'clock.
30 Aug [no year given, but known to be 1855 by context].
Sheet, with 3 pages of text. |