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B. L. Putnam Weale : Indiscreet Letters from Peking: being the notes of an eyewitness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900--the year of great tribulation

'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's [sic] "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

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