Journal kept by W.R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, being a detailed daily record of his voyage to the Dardanelles aboard the transport ship Culloden, written in a neat hand, describing places visited on the way and the difficulties looking after the cavalry horses in his charge, and, on arrival, life in camp including dealings with Lords Raglan and Cardigan, with hardly a day going by without mention of another death from cholera ("...their having drunk river water into which the whole filth of the slaughter house goes..."), field drills under Lord Cardigan with the Turkish squadrons, and a colourful description of the fortified town of Schumla and its inhabitants ("...the whole place is a stinkpot...") , ending with the anticipation of the simultaneous landing of English, French and Turkish troops seven miles from Sebastopol, 136pp, 8vo, maroon calf with clasp, rubbed and scuffed, 10th May to 1st September 1854