** NAPOLEONIC WARS - LETTERS FROM ENGLISH & GERMAN P.O.W.'s ...

Hammer

£420

** NAPOLEONIC WARS - LETTERS FROM ENGLISH & GERMAN P.O.W.'s IN BESANCON, CAMBRAI OR FONTAINEBLEAU; 6 Mar. 1813 EL (dusting affecting address side & flaps) written in English by POW "Wilfrid Mossop" in "Besancon" to his mother charged "1/1" inland rate from London (12 Apr. cds on reverse) to Whitehaven with a partly fine double-oval London "TRANSPORT OFFICE/[Crown]/G.R/PRISONERS OF WAR" on the front; very fine 28 May 1810 EL (sealed with wax) from POW "Wholer Esers...pas Anglois mais du Duche D'Holstein" (captured on an English merchant vessel returning from Portugal) in the "Depot des Prisonniers Anglais a la Citadelle de cette ville" prepaid ("4[?]" on flap) to "General d'Hunebourg de Division Ministre de la Guerre...Paris" with mainly fine "P.57.P/CAMBRAY" on the front beside black Paris boxed "P.P" (30 Mar. cds on back). The letter is a plea for clemency from a German citizen who claims not to have been on any British Naval vessel. Rare thus. [Roumet Cert. (2020)]; and very fine "12 Thermidor An XI" [31 July 1803] EL (sealed with wafer) from "John Collier of English origin, resident in France since" 11 Aug. 1802 on parole in "Fontainebleau" to the Minister of War in Paris with very fine "T" in circle on the front and Paris arrival cds on the flap. The letter asks for the writer to be allowed to rejoin his wife and two children in La Trinite. Most unusual. (3) Cross Reference: FRANCE, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, CUMBERLAND