Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 26, Portalegro, 25th July 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond. 2 pages. 

In this short letter Percival reports that the Division has finally marched into quarters, but complains there are not very good, partly because the Head Quarters staff have taken all the good housing. 

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.