SEVEN YEARS WAR. L.A.S. and manuscript, 1758 and [1761?]; 3pages in-4, address and notebook of 26pages in-4. Meskede camp, September 21, 1758. Autograph letter from an officer to his uncle M. de Maillac vicomte de Monclar in Montauban en Quercy. Details of the campaign in Wetphalia, and the defeat of the Duc de Chevreuse at the battle of Soest: "there were only about 150 prisoners killed or wounded, grenadiers or dragoons [...] it is said that Mr de Contades has beaten a corps of the enemy, that they are withdrawing, and that he is continuing to march"... Report on movements in the Meuse region (Rouvres, Etain, Verdun, Gincrey, Morgemoulin, etc.) from Sunday the 7th to Saturday the 13th [1761]; General Major de Martange, Lieutenant General of the armies, is mentioned many times, as are the Counts of Toulouse, de Lautrec, de Lowendal, d'Hector, the Prince of Holenhohe; the enemy crosses the Meuse; headquarters moves from Étain to Nouillonpont and Cuttry. Monday 8th. "Interesting report from M. le Cte de Lautrec, based on that of M. d'Acton Lieutenant Colonel of the Saxon hussars, who after having broken through the forest to reach the causeway from Metz to Verdun, and leading his patrol on the causeway, opposite Manheult, had encountered a patrol of Prussian hussars who warned him that by going further on this road, he ran the risk of being enveloped by national guards and peasants [......] he learned that the great Prussian army had halted on the Meuse at Consanvoix"... Etc.