VG tight copy6"x 9"tall in VG protected DJ. Small inscription on front inside endpaper.Black boards with gold lettering. Harriet Tytler was the only Englishwoman at the seige of Delhi, the most crucial encounter of the Indian Mutiny, in 1837. She tells the story of her dramatic escape from Delhi with her young familly Harriet was born into an army family in India, spent her childhood with a tyrannical aunt in England. She married, at 17, Captain Robert Tytler and returned to India. The memoires have been edited by Anthony Sattin whose family now owns the manuscript. The text is accompanied by some of the photographs of India taken by the Tytlers in1858.