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MY DEAR FATHER,--We left Belgaum on the 22nd of last month, and arrived at Bombay on the first of this; and we started from Bombay on the 18th, for this place. I had intended to write from Bombay, but everything was in such a state of confusion and bustle whilst we were there,...
MY DEAR FATHER,--I received your letter, dated January 18th, about the beginning of this month, while on our march from Mandavie to this place. I see by the papers that the news...
7. LETTER VII.MY DEAR FATHER,--I begin this letter to you on the 8th of June, 1839, though when it will reach you, or whether it ever will, is very doubtful. I have not written, I see, since...
11. LETTER X.MY DEAR FATHER--As I am now tolerably recovered and my wounds nearly healed, I take the first opportunity (as my arm is losing its stiffness) of writing to you, as I have no dou...
3. LETTER III.My DEAR FATHER,--I write to wish you a happy new year on this the first day of 1839, which, if it turns out as its opening prognosticates, is likely to be a very eventful one fo...
4. LETTER IV.MY DEAR FATHER,--I had fully intended this letter for Kitty, but such a dreadful event happened in our regiment yesterday, that I was afraid, if she was at all unwell when she r...
9. scene I had read in a book called "The Subaltern," where the feelings ofthe officers, waiting for an attack, are described as being just the same. At length, "bang" went a gun from our batteries. Col. Sale said, "Ah, there goes the signal; we had be...
8. LETTER VIII.MY DEAR FATHER,--You must put down yesterday, the 23rd of July, in your memorandum book as a memorable day for your son Tom, and, I may say, for the British army. Ghuzni, the st...
6. LETTER VI.MY DEAR FATHER,--I last wrote to you from Kotree, opposite Hydrabad. We are now, as you will see by the date, at Larkhanu, a pretty considerable distance from the former place....
12. LETTER XI.MY DEAR ELIZA,--I finished and sent off a letter to my father yesterday, giving an account of the storming of Kelat, and the wounds I received in the skrimmage, and telling him...
13. LETTER XII.MY DEAR FATHER,--You will see, by my date, that our share of the campaign is ended; in fact, we are only waiting here for shipping, which is on its way from Bombay, to take us f...
1. LETTER IMY DEAR FATHER,--We left Belgaum on the 22nd of last month, and arrived at Bombay on the first of this; and we started from Bombay on the 18th, for this place. I had intended to...
2. LETTER II.MY DEAR KITTY,--I wrote to my father, about ten days ago, from the ship in which we came here, stating what I then knew about this expedition; but having since received your let...
5. LETTER V.MY DEAR FATHER,--I wrote to you a few days ago from Jarruk, informing you of the melancholy fate of three of my brother officers; but having received your letter since, dated No...
10. LETTER IX.MEMORANDUM.--I have lost this letter, which I regret the more, because it gave a very full account both, of Cabool and its environs, as well as of many interesting circumstances...