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[We] come by the Victory Redout over Inkerman
Plan & by the Mill which is now a powder Magaz
& through Little Kamisch & by the Iron Hut home
this day was a General Holiday through the Crimea
Yesterday Afternoon - a Fire at Kadokoi

Thursday 27th
Very Cold with Snow & blowing a gale of
Wind all day at the 62sd

Friday 28th
Fine day but Finished at the 62sd

Sunday [30]th
Rainey & wind all day & Rough at Sea

Monday 31st
Snowey & Windy at work at W.H.Russell Esq
Times Corresponden at Cathcath [Cathcarts] Hill Call at the
Guards Camp & See William & Joe Ram he gave
me a Russian Scaff which he brough out of the
Town Spent a Happy Eveing &c

March 16th Birth of a Prince
Paris ½ 6.a.m. from the Disp[ ]
The Empress of France was delivered of a
Prince the New got to Kamisch on Easter
Sunday March 23rd 1856

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Stephen

Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article on Willian Howard Russell may be interested to know that he was in the Crimea in March 1856