GREECE. Letter written from PIRÉE on July 1, 1854, by a Doct - Lot 500

GREECE. Letter written from PIRÉE on July 1, 1854, by a Doctor who is part of the Expedition d'Orient. 4 pages in-8° : Friendly letter addressed to "Mon Cher de CAMBIS". This doctor complains of being overburdened with work, the heat, the atrocious dry winds and the lack of comfort, gives news and above all asks for staff and sheets for his hospital. "...Colonel Breton has written to Generals DARRICAU and BLANCHOT, asking them to send us what we need... Our number of sick is not much, since we have only 3% of all the troops: but within 15 days there will obviously be a big increase. So, my good friend, do your best to help us... General FOREY has taken away two or three hundred large tents... send us tents if you have them. We also need some linen and shoes to form a small reserve for our camp store. This morning we saw Generals COUSTON, CARBUCCIA, LÉVY... they gave us news of the interior and of the Theater of War in the ORIENT. Generally speaking, in Piraeus, all we learn is more or less retrospective gossip. As for the political affairs of GREECE, there is apparent appeasement, except for the muted and constant irritation at the King's Court, with the so-called Liberators returning daily from MACEDONIA and THESSALIA... we must wait before pronouncing ourselves on the hundred ways in which the Greeks are judged, a hundred ways which a few witty people sum up by saying that they are rascals, unworthy of France's interest, but it's not always with wit alone that one does good things in politics..."