Author: KINGLAKE AND SMYTHE
Title: Crimean War Letters
Description: Unpublished letters 1863 and 1884. 1863. Book, Letter written and signed by Sir Leicester Smyth (also known as Leicester Curzon-Howe). As Curzon-Howe he served as aide-de-camp to Lord Raglan in the Crimean War. He served in the Rifle Brigade and commanded a company in the Basuto War of 1852. Later he was involved in action in the Crimea at the Battles of the Alma and Inkerman was present at the siege of Sevastopol and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He brought the dispatches of the fall of Sevastopol to Britain and ended the Crimean War as ADC to General Codrington. After the Crimean War he served in Gibraltar and Malta with the Rifle Brigade and rose to the rank of Major-General. Later service in Ireland and South Africa followed and he became acting High Commissioner for South Africa in Gladstone's government in the 1880s. The letter is on P&O headed paper size 14 by 9 cm. and was written en route to Ceylon in 1863.Signed letter Alexander William Kinglake Victorian travel writer and historian. On paper size 18 by 11 cm with three sides of writing. This ALS is dated September 1884. Kinglake wrote what was considered at the time to be the definitive history of the Crimean War. Kinglake visited the Crimea and was at the Battle of the Alma in 1854. He met Lord Raglan the British Commander in Chief and it appears that Raglan asked him to write the history of the war giving him access to his private papers. VG condition.Images available.

Keywords: Manuscripts