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Auction: 9020 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 2289

India 1822 (Oct.) pair of entire letters written by Edward Baring Gould at St. Thomas´s Mount, Madras to his father in Devon, both without postal markings; both with transcripts and with the contents including reference to his broken leg with gruesome details, life around the Artillery on crutches, details of his thoughts on a Scotsman who is to marry his sister "The very idea of a Scotsman is enough to make you vomit", and much else. A fascinating and unusual pair carried privately Estimate £ 100-120

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