Letter from Mark Sykes sent from Rhenoster Bridge

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About training black people as line watchers, Royal Engineers quartered there, a drunken telegraph clerk, the Royal Engineers getting drunk, a dialogue with a disobedient Royal Engineer, Edith's neuralgia, his opinions on Dickens, Thackeray, Swift and 18th century literature, and a prediction of a future reaction against science. Includes ill of a donkey in a hat, and a black man in ragged clothes and a staff cap

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