Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, in a difficult hand.

Four pages, 8vo, good condition. Much is indecipherable to me but he appears to hope his correspondent will read something referring to Scutari, says he would have sent a duplicate (article?) but "it is in print". He refers to the Prince [Albert] and considering the "exhibition of folly we have already made at Scutari we need not allow the Queen to become ridculous in the eyes of Orientals - better send the 2 [?] from [?] . . . pigtails and all to personate Castor & Pollux or any other Gods of cavalry & Shipping . . . fallen brave . . . than enact what is absurd & which the earthquake may throw down - The [?] . . . by a late Sultan in honor of his arrow-shots is nearly as good as . . . or the Sultan might give one of the obelisks with Theodosius' pedetal quite ready . . ." Obviously a typically hard-hitting outburst from the man who initially brought the news to England of the inadequacies in the Crimea. Note: He and his wife accompanied Nightingale to Scutari. She said "He and she [Selina Bracebridge] have been the creators of my life".