THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE NO. 170, JANUARY, 1843 [SIR JOHN WATERS LONDONDERRY ASSOCIATION COPY] by Various - 1843

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Book. Good-. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A bound copy of Issue No. 170, Jan., 1843 of The United Service Magazine, minus its frontismatter, but including several original signed letters regarding the death of Lieut.-General Sir John Waters, whose obituary appears on pp.95-99. On the ffep is an Epitaph to Waters, hand-written and signed by Vane Londonderry, Adjutant General of the Peninsula Army, dated 2 December, 1842. . A 4-page handwritten letter, dated November 24, 1842 also signed by Londonderry, is tipped onto the ffep. A 6p hand-written letter, signed by Edmond Chester Waters, is tipped onto an inside page. In addition, a number of notes/corrections to Waters' obituary appear on p97, apparently in the handwriting of Vane Londonderry. Tipped onto the fep is a hand-written 4p letter addressed to Colonel Wood and signed by Anthony Bambrief (?), a cousin of Waters, written on the day of Waters' death. Other articles in this issue include: Naval Improvements of the Nineteenth Century; Letters from Dusseldorf and Bonn During the Late Prussian Reviews; With A Glance At San Domingo; etc., etc. A very interesting association piece. Bound in dark blue cloth, with gilt spine title "Lt. Genl. Sir John Waters" in gilt; extremes of covers are worn to the boards, with some loss of cloth to the ends of the spine, and the front hinge is broken, but this is otherwise a clean complete copy..