Year: 1835

Coonancy is not a dictionary word – perhaps it is a private one.

Demerara 5th Novr 1835

No letters my dear Kate by the Packet which arrived here on Monday the 2d Inst, stopped I suppose at Pall Mall office as usual. Still, it will not answer to grumble for Major Wells has taken some trouble in our behalf to forward our correspondence. I returned from the woods late Sunday night, and was not a little astonished to learn ...     Read more

Written from Demerara, not dated at the beginning, but started on Thursday 26 November 1835 

Lieutenant-Colonel George Judd Harding was an RE officer evidently on the spot, who had helped Augustus’s cause by writing a letter – see letters 15 and 16. Lieutenant-Colonel (later Sir) William Reid was another whose help might be enlisted. General Avila (a doubtful reading) has not been identified. ...     Read more

Not dated at head, but written from Demerara on 15 December 1835 

Sir Andrew Halliday was an eminent medical practitioner and had held the post of Inspector of Hospitals for the West Indies since 1833. The charges against him appear to relate to leakages of confidential information to the press. 

Do not be offended my dear Kate if this letter happens to be shorter than usual. I have heard of a Brig ...     Read more

English has now come to terms with the reality that promotion is most likely to result in his being given the command in Barbados in place of Sir Charles Smith, while being overlooked for promotion would augur ill for his prospects in the Corps. Hopes for an early return home are fading.

                                                            19^th Decr 1835

When you receive this my dear Kate two years of my transportation will nearly have expired. In the course of the ...     Read more