BIB_ID
363066
Accession number
MA 7360.123
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1869 Feb. 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
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.
Written on the stationery of the India Office with its embossed seal.
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.
Written on the stationery of the India Office with its embossed seal.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Sending him "a copy of the Memorandum drawn up by the Military Department of this office, on the oder issued after the taking of Magdala enjoining the Restoration of all loot, The order seems as you say to be one giving effect to a general principle that no soldier has a right to appropriate an enemy's property."
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