BIB_ID
362437
Accession number
MA 7360.23
Creator
Clerk, George Russell, Sir, 1800-1889.
Display Date
[1867] May 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters written to Sir Stafford Northcote in the 1860s from British politicians, foreign ministers and other notables of the period. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The year of writing is not provided, however he references "Her Majesty's Birthday Day dinner" on the 25th; an earlier letter in the collection (MA 7360.17) also refers to the Birth Day dinner on the 25th and it is dated 1867.
Written in the third person and on stationery embossed with the seal of the India Office.
The year of writing is not provided, however he references "Her Majesty's Birthday Day dinner" on the 25th; an earlier letter in the collection (MA 7360.17) also refers to the Birth Day dinner on the 25th and it is dated 1867.
Written in the third person and on stationery embossed with the seal of the India Office.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Regretting that he is unable to attend the dinner "for the celebration of Her Majesty's Birth Day" due to an attack of influenza.
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