LIEUTENANT ERNEST PERCEVAL PAPERS

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Size: 0.25 linear feet

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Content note:
The Lieutenant Ernest Perceval Papers contain 46 autographed letters from Perceval, 88th Foot to members of his family from Balaklava Bay in the Crimea between 1855-1856. His letters describe the English campaigns in the Crimea culminating in descriptions of fraternization with Russian troops at the time of the 1856 armistice and of considerable ill-feeling between British and French troops. Included in the collection is a long poem from Perceval to his cousin Anna(?), and a sketch and sketch map of scenes of fighting in the Crimea (1856?).

Processed by: MD, circa 1990; JEF, 3-23-1998