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Hervey Stokes letter to Miss E. Stokes, ca. 1881.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 18 Folder 23
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Stokes, Hervey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Great Britain.
- Afghanistan--Description and travel.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghan Wars.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Maggs Bros Ltd (Great Britain), 1997.
- Physical Description:
- 15 leaves
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 18 Folder 23
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1881.
- Biography/History:
- Hervey Stokes was a corporal in the 61st Regiment, Afghanistan.
- Summary:
- In this 27 page letter (which is headed "Rough Notes"), Corporal Stokes discusses his departure from Ireland in a draft of 200 men from the 28th Regiment in August 1880 and his arrival in Bombay in September. He unexpectedly meets his younger brother John who belongs to the 66th Regiment. John was suffering from fever as his regiment was just "returning from Afghanistan after the great slaughter at the battle of Maiwand." Hervey's regiment reaches Quetta, but five weeks later is ordered to proceed under General Henderson on another long march into the Murvee Hill Country. The document continues by discussing the travels and conditions of Stokes' time as a soldier in Afghanistan.
- OCLC:
- 213486990
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