Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 23, Portalegro (?), 18th June 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond.
In this letter Percival relates that attendees were well pleased by the ball organised on 4th June, with waltzes being the favourite amusement. He recounts that his unit was subsequently required to make a sudden march in order to head off a surprise French flanking march.   
From a collection of  twenty-three letters of 29 Sep 1810- 11 Jun 1814, written by Lt and Capt George Harvey Percival, Coldstream Guards, to his aunt Mrs Charles Drummond in London from the Peninsula, 1810-1811 and the Low Countries, 1813-1814.