SCINDE FIELD FORCE - BOXED "BHOOJ/Bearing" D.S. ON COVER EX ...

Hammer

£550

SCINDE FIELD FORCE - BOXED "BHOOJ/Bearing" D.S. ON COVER EX "JATTA" TO KIRKEE; Attractive 29 Dec. 1838 EL (closed tears and mainly internal wrinkling hardly detracts) from Gillespie at "Jatta" to his wife in Kirkee with a very fine boxed "BHOOJ/[4 January 1839]/Bearing [10as]" on the flap and "BOMBAY/Bearing [3]" 12 Jan. 1839 d.s. on the front. Good contents (types transcript) inc. "Thus far have we progressed into Scinde...we are to wait here for the arrival of our heavy ordinance & stores, all of which are coming up by water...A subsidiary force... is to occupy the country whilst we march to the North...we mus brush up and prepare for the raking of Hyderabad... Send all your letters via Bhooj - it is the Resident's packet..." Good Campaign letter from this early stage of the move across Scinde to Afghanistan. Exhibition Quality.