Looking for a book

[Peggy]

please.

I'm trying to locate a copy of "A Memoir of Maj. Gen. Sir Denis Pack" by Denis R. Pack-Beresford, University Press, Dublin, 1908. I haven't been able to find any library anywhere that will own up to having a copy.

Sir Denis served in the Peninsula and elsewhere, and commanded a brigade at Waterloo. He had a rather exciting career.

Thanks for any help,

Peggy

[Geoffers]

please.

I'm trying to locate a copy of "A Memoir of Maj. Gen. Sir Denis Pack" by Denis R. Pack-Beresford, University Press, Dublin, 1908. I haven't been able to find any library anywhere that will own up to having a copy.

Sir Denis served in the Peninsula and elsewhere, and commanded a brigade at Waterloo. He had a rather exciting career.

You might try the Naval and Military Press, who have a large list of books, originals and reprints:

Other than that and the online second hand dealers, I'll bar it in mind when I have a browse in the second-hand shops that I use.

Geoffers

[Peggy]

Thanks Geoffers!

I have the Naval and Military Press site bookmarked, and wish I could afford to order a few dozen items they have.

Some years back a librarian at the British Library did some looking for me, and she couldn't find the book in any library either. There were probably not many printed.

Peggy

[nemisis]

ref looking for a book,have you contacted the bodlian at oxford

[AnnB]

Hello Peggy
I'm probably telling you something you already know, but have you seen the the page of Southampton University's web site at https://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/guide/MS296.shtml They seem to have quite a lot of Sir Denis's papers in their special collections
Best wishes
Ann

[Peggy]

Not in the Bod, as far as I can find out. I did find that there is a signed copy in a private, subscription-only library in NI.

Googling did turn up the Southampton University collection, Ann, and I've been in touch with them. They have some very interesting stuff, but they have a lot of it, not fully indexed. One of these days. . . .

Thanks,

Peggy

[Peggy]

Call off the search. :-)

Found it, in a library in Switzerland. Copy obtained through the efforts & generosity of a distant cousin.

Aside from letters to his wife, there is only one family letter quoted in the book. That one was to my GGG-GF. (I was gobsmacked.) The family info section gave me new info, including additional siblings for my GG-GF.


Peggy

[MikeG47]

Peggy
I have an ancestor who was an officer in Pack's Portuguese Brigade between 1810 and 1813 and and would dearly love to see a copy of Pack's memoir. Does the book describe details of his campaigns? Where in Switzerland did you find the copy?
Mike