LEBANON--JOHN LOUDON, LETTERS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN INCLUDING DURING THE SIEGE OF BEIRUT, 1830S-40S

comprising c.107 letters by Loudon to his wife Margaret, giving an eyewitness account of the Battle of Beirut and the Bombardment of Acre during the Egyptian-Ottoman War, as well as describing life aboard ship and on shore at Malta, his travels around the Eastern Mediterranean, and family life, together with about 20 other family letters (mostly correspondence with his children), about 20 other letters to Loudon, including five autograph letters signed by Admiral Stopford, and a bundle of documents, mostly copy despatches and letters relating to hostilities in the Eastern Mediterranean and including an illustrated report on the defences of Alexandria (14 pages, 1840), c.1828-1848 but chiefly 1837-41, many of the letters with fumigation slits, some letters worn or splitting at folds

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