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CRIMEAN WAR
22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£500 - £700
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CRIMEAN WAR
Three autograph letters to the traveller and former Governor of Ceylon, Sir James Emerson Tennent, comprising two by Colonel Sparks, both written from the camp before Sebastopol, the first written four days before the Battle of Balaclava, containing detailed account of the state of the campaign, the competence of the commanders, the siege of Sebastopol, contacts with the enemy, deficiencies in organization (particularly in the medical service, recounting instances of an officer sick in camp with little of no medicine and another who spent a week in hospital without being examined by a doctor), 12 pages, postmarked envelope, 8vo, Camp before Sebastopol, 21 October 1854; the second, written the following August, describing a recent action and complaining of the inaccurate way in which the campaign is being reported, 7 pages, 8vo, Camp before Sebastopol, 17 August 1855; the third by Alexander Davison after the fall of Sebastopol, reporting that he had been present at the storming of the south side the previous Sunday and warning him to treat newspaper reports with caution ("...there is one thing that perhaps they may not tell you, and on which you may rely, that the French took Sebastopol, and that the English soldiers, who have died, are victims of the incompetency of their commanders – such a scene of confusion, and mismanagement as the English attack on the Redan, it would be difficult to conceive; a handful of men sent forward to storm the most formidable earthwork... provided with two scaling ladders instead of forty seven, which was the proper complement..."), 4 pages, with envelope, 8vo, Army Works Corps Encampment, 10 September 1855
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'VICTIMS OF THE INCOMPETENCY OF THEIR COMMANDERS': three fine, hard-hitting letters from the debacle of the Crimea, pointing up not only incompetence in command but also the lamentable state of the hospitals prior to the arrival of Florence Nightingale. The writer of the first two can be identified as Lieutenant-Colonel James Pattoux Sparks, who succeeded to the command of the 38th Regiment.