Letter of C. Douglas Smith to W. Sidney Smith

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4 pp. in-quarto; handwritten; signed: C. Douglas Smith, remnants of sealing-wax.;Letter of Douglas Smith, from Military Hospital Deal, handwritten in english, dated 14.9.1799 to his brother W. Sidney Smith, captain of the Tigre. Having still received no direct news from his brother and no acknowledgment for the packets and newspapers sent previously, Douglas writes on some family and friends tidings, and also reports on the latest news he read in the newspapers concerning his brother, congratulating him on the "happy results ..at Acre";