Saint-Omer, 1788

1788

Three pages of text; ink on one sheet of paper folded in half | 22.8 x 37.2 cm (sheet; folded to 22.8 x 18.6 cm) | RCIN 734110.3.a

This is a contemporary copy of RCIN 734110.2.a (or vice versa).

Condition: four fold lines.

John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806) (author)
Watermark: Horn in crowned shield, the letters GR below

Mark, stamped: 1064

Condition: four fold lines
22.8 x 37.2 cm (sheet; folded to 22.8 x 18.6 cm)
Manuscript title:

No title. [Letter from John Graves Simcoe, to an unknown recipient, dated 9 October 1788; addressed from Wolford Lodge (near Exeter, Devon)]

Annotations:

George III heading: Encampment at S.^tOmer, Sep. 1788.

Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil, in a modern hand:] CMB Jan '87 [i.e. 1987]. (Verso) none.

George III catalogue entry:

Encampment A drawn Plan of the French Army at S.^t Omer, under the command of the Prince of Condé, in Sept.^r 1788; with the Movements of the different Divisions on the 13.^th 14.^th and 15.^th and that of the whole Army on the 17.^th of the same month: by Lieut. G. Spencer: with an explanatory Letter from Col. Simcoe. [The same entry appears under the heading St. Omer.]
Subject(s)
Saint-Omer, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (50°45'00"N 02°15'00"E)