Author: 
    
            
                    Baron Simon Bernard (1779-1839), French general of engineers, who did much military work for the United States government        
         
 
      Publication details: 
    
            
                    Date and place not stated.        
         
 
Written in a neat, close hand (not Bernard's) on one page (the recto of the first leaf of a 12mo bifolium). Twenty-one lines. Text clear and complete. On aged, grubby and lightly-creased paper.