BIB_ID
413816
Accession number
MA 13985.3
Creator
Delane, John Thaddeus, 1817-1879.
Display Date
[1855] August 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by related correspondence and internal evidence, including a refererence to the siege of Sebastopol.
Watermarked "1854."
One of a collection of 4 letters addressed by John Thaddeus Delane to Alexander William Kinglake (MA 13985.1-4).
Watermarked "1854."
One of a collection of 4 letters addressed by John Thaddeus Delane to Alexander William Kinglake (MA 13985.1-4).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing him that he hopes to be able to take a steamship down the Danube (to the Crimea) and noting that he has been told by military men that Sebastopol should hold out "at least 35 days so that we are pretty sure to be in time."
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