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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 585

Napoleonic Wars
Barry Edward O'Meara
1817 (2 Sept.) copy made by O'Meara of his report made from "Longwood" to Sir Hudson Lowe in which he wrote "the state of General Bonaparte's health has been generally good since the last report. I have signed / Barry O'Meara, Surgeon". Also included with 1817 (3 Sept.) original copy headed "Report No. 23" relating to the transport of a report about the health of Napoleon. An interesting pair.

Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836) was an Irish Surgeon best known for being surgeon to Emperor Napoleon while he was in exile in St. Helena.

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