Author: Collected And Edited By Mrs. Wykeham Martin
Title: Letters Written from the Crimea to Several Members of His Family, by the Late Major Fiennes Cornwallis
Description: Privately Printed, 1868. Hardcover. 122 pages. A series of letters sent home to family members from the Crimea. Cornwallis was a member of the 4th Hussars and ADC to Lord George Paget. He gives a first hand description of the Charge of the Light Brigade which he survived. Tennyson's poem included at the rear In mylar sleeveNo dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Rough-cut pages are lightly tanned with minimal foxing. Endpapers original and perfect without marks; hinges sound; binders label-Burn & Co Kirby Street E.C.on rear pastedown. Pages 110/11 have been roughly opened with some loss to lower margin of page 11/112 but nowhere near text. See scans and email for more . Near Fine

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