Description | Written from the Monastery. Improvement in eyesight, but slow, requiring another one or two months: amusing himself sketching, including of the Monastery: no official news of peace yet: box from the Harbinger not with him yet: progress with reading about surveying: intention of riding to camp tomorrow to see the fellows: request about the Sebastopol clasp: worsening weather, with it blowinghard tonight: apology for such a short letter, with nothing of note happening since last mail. Sheet, with 4 pages of text. [No year given, but clearly 1856 from context.] |