Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 10, Cartaxo, 19th January 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond. 4 pages. 

Percival has little news to impart since his last letter. He relates that General Howard of the Coldstream Guards has arrived from England. Another correspondent has appended a few lines to the end of the letter, but the name cannot be discerned.  

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.