Pre-1914 Period. 1745-1835 Letters concerning military matters or to military addresses including 1831 printed letter giving numbers of men required for the miners militia in the parish of Wonford; 1833 letter from Edinburgh to the Commander of the 1st Lancers at St. Sebastian, part of the British Legion in Spain; printed wrappers from the War Office (2) or Chelsea Hospital, and letters to the Paymaster General (4) all sent as Frees; 1799 franked letter to a Major in the Regt of the Isles at Aberdeen; 1798 printed letter to the surgeon of the Aberdeen Volunteers concerning a new tourniquet technique with illustrated instructions on its application; 1796 receipt from Cobb & Co in Margate for barrels of cartridges & flints sent by Stanbury & Cos waggon to the Margate Volunteers; 1795 letter to the West Lowland Fencibles at Hastings redirected to Eastbourne Barracks; 1798-1800 letters to the Breadalbane Fencibles in Ireland (3); 1775 letter (no address panel) from the Lord Lieutenant of Essex requesting volunteers from the Essex Militia to join the regular forces for the war in America; 1794 War Office letter to the French Artillery in Southampton (no address panel); 1801 letter to the Prince of Wales Own Fencible Infantry in Gibraltar, also related acts, etc. (32).

1845-1913 Entire letters and covers including 1848 letter from Bolton franked 2d blue pair, to a Captain in the Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry at Rochdale concerning billets for troops at a forthcoming field day at Preston; covers to the War Office with various unusual semi-literate addresses, four stampless treated as Official Paid (3) or charged 2d, others franked 1d (16); cover to the Duke of Connaught; various regimental envelopes or stationery, etc. Also two 1910 picture postcards of the Royal Tournament at Olympia sent by a participating soldier. (32)