Monsieur Alexis Soyer,
Cathcart’s Hill, Crimea.
Light Division Camp, 4th June, 1856.
Sir,—I have much pleasure in being able to bear testimony to the efficacy of your field-stoves. Their extreme simplicity and their consuming so little fuel, render them particularly applicable to the use of soldiers. The men of the regiment under my command all approve of them.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A. C. Goodenough, Lieut.-Col.,
Commanding 34th Regiment.
Monsieur Alexis Soyer,
Cathcart’s Hill.
Camp, Sebastopol, 7th June, 1856.
I have witnessed the working of Monsieur Soyer’s patent portable kitchen for troops, and consider it most excellent—the process simple, saving of fuel great, and always insuring a good meal to the soldier, in camp or barrack, it will be a great boon, should it be generally adopted.
Thomas Kelly, Lieut.-Col.,
Commanding 31st Regiment.
Camp before Sebastopol, Fourth Division,
June 14th, 1856.