Letter from Edgar Swan to Lewin Swan, Balaklava, 17 Jun 1855.
He describes the recall of the company's Chief Cashier (presumably Charles Camidge) after a failed attempt to oust the Chief Engineer, James Beatty.
He also mentions Lord FitzRoy James Henry Somerset Raglan's order threatening to flog the railway workmen for their insubordination.
From collection of 18 letters mostly exchanged between the brothers Edgar and Lewin Swan, Eastern Counties Railway Engineers, 1854-1855.
Edgar went to the Crimea as one of three assistant engineers with the consortium of Peto, Brassey and Betts to construct the Balaklava railway.
Lewin at the same time was working in Paris.
With transcripts.
Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856)