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** THE 7 YEARS WAR - FOURNIER CORRESPONDENCE - EX NEWLY FREED P.O.W. TO WINCHESTER P.O.W. CAMP; 19 Jan. 1762 EL from La Rochelle (full typed transcript; long interesting letter in French from a recently released POW who had been held in Doncaster ref. his journey back to France via London etc.) to "Joseph Fournier, Prisonnier de Guerre au Chateau de Winchester at Winchester Castle" charged "10[d]" (incoming rate ex France) and then "In [all] 1N1" (plus 3d inland ex london) with a mainly fine "MR/1" Foreign Branch Bishop Mark on the flap. The contents include; "T'is not now time to call for a Yorkshire pudding, but for a good glass of wine... I shall drink to your health...". Rare early ingoing cover to a British POW Camp. [Not recorded in MFPWE.] Cross Reference: FRANCE, HAMPSHIRE, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, YORKSHIRE
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