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Accession Number

NAM.2001-01-859-6

Description

Letter from John Wood, an army officer in Lausanne, to Lt William Lee, 16th Queen’s Light Dragoons, 31 May, 1788. Wood describes his own sexual encounters and wonders whether, referring to Zinette Desincourt, ‘you [Lee] should have met some German woman that will make you forget her’. Lt Lee served with the 16th Queen’s Light Dragoons from 1787-1792.