Manuscript notebook containing copies of letters, compiled by Col John Oldfield in December 1844. 219 pages.

The 24 letters contained in this bound archive book relate to the period between 15 January and 9 July 1815, and include Oldfields reflections after the Battle of Waterloo. Oldfield was Brigade Major of the Royal Engineers and responsible for the construction of the defences of Ypres.

Contains 24 letters which form a journal of Oldfield’s activities, with an appendix of the Duke of Wellington, and others, of the same time.

Associated with the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).