Dear Sir, Thank you so much for the Richard Sharpe series. I particularly admire the tremendous amount of historical reasearch that has gone into these books. Being a CS Forester fanatic for over fifty years, I especially like the way you tied Sharpe’s Escape in with Rifleman Dodd. Now, a suggestion, or constructive criticism,or something. You missed a bet in Sharpe’s Trafalgar. You mention a lot of Nelson’s captains at Trafalgar, such as Israel Pellew. But you missed his brother, Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, later Lord Exmouth, who, while not present at Trafalgar, was the Admiral commanding His Majesty’s ships in the East Indies at that time, and so was therefore Captain Chase’s commanding officer. And he was also Hornblower’s captain when Hornblower was a midshipman. I know that Hornblower and Sharpe are both fictional, but the Pellews were real. A very minor point, but it would have been fitting to tie him in. (It’s wonderful being a Monday morning quarterback with 20-20 hindsight.) Anyway, thanks for a lot of very enjoyable reading. Thanx Paul Jacobson