Until his hut comes from Constantinople, he is in a tent formerly Sir C. Colebrooke's, with five pregnant Tatar women, interpreters, and insects; suspicion that it is not intended to take Sebastopol; people talk about Lord Raglan in a surprising way; 'Miss Palmer a great heiress', when she arrived, was at once summoned to lunch, but Lord Raglan never asked about the condition of the sick in hospital

He complains about Lord Raglan's 'confouned comfortable white house' near Sebastopol, 'the bane of our army'; if he had lived in camp, thousands of lives might have been spared; Burgoyne has always favoured an assault, not 'engineering and artillerying'; an attack may occur when it is not expected; 'There is no folly too great for us to commit and no amount of hard fighting we wont go thro' to redeem it'; Kinglake's pony, fit and well, is ridden by the doctor