BIB_ID
395942
Accession number
MA 13315.21
Creator
Hughes-Hallett, Harry F.
Display Date
[1882] August.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Date inferred from internal evidence.
Harry F. Hughes-Hallett was the commander of the H.M.S. Superb during the vessel's participation in the bombardment of Alexandria on July 11-July 13, 1882 and the ensuing struggle on the part of the British to take control of the city.
Part of a collection of 22 letters to Lord Charles and Lady Beresford from various friends and associates; the letters are described individually (MA 13315.1-22).
Written on stationery printed "Superb".
Harry F. Hughes-Hallett was the commander of the H.M.S. Superb during the vessel's participation in the bombardment of Alexandria on July 11-July 13, 1882 and the ensuing struggle on the part of the British to take control of the city.
Part of a collection of 22 letters to Lord Charles and Lady Beresford from various friends and associates; the letters are described individually (MA 13315.1-22).
Written on stationery printed "Superb".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writes with news of her husband, Lord Beresford, "I hear he has with his usual aptitude fallen into the habits of the country - sits all day on a divan, in a fez, smoking cigarettes & drinking coffee, & never hurries himself.", and other naval officers, including Robert Hornby, Sir Beauchamp Seymour, General Fielding, Lieutenenat Charles Graves-Sawle of the Superb, and others; with observations on the suffering of the English horse in the Egyptian sun ("the household Brigade expect to be entirely mounted on donkeys soon").
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