F.C. Philips (Villa Franca) to his mother, Mrs. Philips (28 St. James's Square, Bath): an account of his peregrinations since his departure from Corunna; thinks Mold is much better than any of the villages through which he has passed; once slept in a hut in comparison with which the cottage on Carrestyn [Caer Estyn] belonging to poor Mary Reece is a palace; his return to Lugo with the command of the sick horses; has met an officer (Mr. Jenkins) and men who were captured by a privateer and rifled of their arms, but allowed on parole on condition that they do not serve with their regiment; the state of affairs is very unfavourable; game-shooting experiences; a good joke about the corporal of his advanced guard on the return journey to Lugo, who mistook some new paling on the other side of a hedge for a detatchment of the enemy; living is cheap; good news of Edwin.
Copy of D/HE/540.
[NLW ref.202].