Crimean Railway Expedition.
Letter from Edgar Swan to Lewin Swan, Balaklava, 3 Mar 1855.
Describing the situation in the Crimea.
He remarks how the navvies slaughtered a bullock for 'trespassing on the railway'.
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).