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William Dyson-Laurie is responsible for this collection of family letters.
http://sites.google.com/site/laurieletters
It is a collection of 192 transcribed family letters from three brothers, written in the ten years from 1855-1865. These include 41 from the Crimea. Unusually, all three brothers were there at the same time.
"Irregular Correspondence is a collection of 192 letters, mainly written in the ten years from 1855 by the three eldest sons of John and Eliza Laurie, to their parents. The letters have been transcribed and reassembled, primarily for the benefit of interested family members.
The earliest surviving letter was written by the youngest of the three brothers, Julius, about to embark from Liverpool, initially destined for Malta. He was a 15 year old Ensign and very excited at the prospect of action in the Crimea where he also hoped to join his two elder brothers John, 19, a Lieutenant in 4th Regiment of Foot and Peter, 17, a civilian on board a merchant vessel."
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