Dear Mister Cornwell I am a fan of you and I appreciate your writing style. I love to set foot in your world of history. As I am very affected of history, I was very happy to discover, that you are not only a very fine author, but also a good friend of world history. For this case, and now we reach the main reason for writing to you, I thought of you, when I began my work on my project paper for my bachelor degree in the University of St. Gall in Switzerland. My aim is it to write about military justice in the British army in the Napoleonic Wars, especially in the Peninsular War. As I began to work on this paper, I knew I must contact you, because the adventures of Sharpe are very close to my subject. Do you have some information about military law in these times? I would be very happy to get some tips, where I have to look for. Now I wish you a good evening and look forward to hear from you. Yours faithfully Michael Heeb

P.S. Excuse my bad English, but I am Swiss and therefore not a native speaker. P.P.S. Is it possible, that your riddle for Sharpe’s Father has something to do with Wellington’s Horse Diomed? If I take out the “me”, and put in a “u” it would give something like “Dioud” or so. Am I far away of the solution?