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Letter from Major General Murray, Devonport, to Thomas Collins, 1847 January 9 : manuscript.

BIB_ID
189965
Accession number
MA 23094
Creator
Murray, Major General, active 19th century.
Display Date
Devonport, England, 1847 January 9.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.4 x 17.9 cm
Notes
The place of writing is given as "Government House / Devonport."
Written in the third person.
Docketed.
Collins's address is given at the foot of the letter as "7. Hemingford Terrace / Islington."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume VIII, page 275.
Summary
Responding to Collins's request that a portrait of Major General Murray be inserted "amongst those of Eminent Conservatives;" writing that he has "no other claim to be so considered than more than equally attaches to every officer that has had the honor to serve the Country & to obtain the approbation of the Sovereign."