LESSEPS Ferdinand de - ALS 1869 from Suez Period_1900 and later

LESSEPS Ferdinand de - ALS 1869 from Suez Period_1900 and laterFerdinand de LESSEPS (1805 1894) Autograph Letter Signed (Ferd. de Lesseps) asking the Commandant of the Benares to bring the chief mechanic of the ship to dinner with him, adding in a postscript the passage through the locks of the Suez canal of a Mediterranean convoy will take place at a quarter to four. 1 page large 8vo in French, Suez, 29 August 1869. Trans: M. le Commandant of the Benares is requested to be kind enough to bring with him and the

thanking her for a book and wryly alluding to the problems which might arise in the Middle East for those with the name Lawrence

1 page 4to in French with integral blank leaf

explaining the reason why John Cooke had been recommended for a promotion

who Jenner particularly liked and respected

or perhaps one should say forgotten

born in the East End

though highly dignified

but was repudiated by him when suspected of having revealed secret plans to Napoleon in order to secure his release when d’Antraigues was captured in Trieste

[10 November 1815]

The enemy in question here would most likely be the largely ineffectual Spanish army or perhaps the rather more threatening bands of Spanish guerrillas

a firm supporter of the French Revolution

if there is no other way to deal with this