Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 8, Cartaxo, 4th January 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond. 4 pages. 

In this letter Percival had little news to report, as the army has not moved and the wet season has begun, flooding the local rivers and hampering movment. A fellow officer in the 52nd Regiment was assaulted and badly beaten by a soldier on the road to Cartaxo. 

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.