BIB_ID
395260
Accession number
MA 13315.3
Creator
Knowles, Francis Charles
Display Date
1886 July 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 20.5 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 22 letters to Lord Charles and Lady Beresford from various friends and associates; the letters are described individually (MA 13315.1-22).
Inscriptions/Markings
With an autograph draft of Lord Breresford's response on pages 7 and 8, agreeing to help Robert Cosby to a title should the opportunity arise and declining the honor of a place on the board of his correspondent's mining company.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting his assistance in urging the claims of their mutual friend, the Conservative representative of Queens County in Ireland Robert Cosby, to the peerage; comments on the poor quality of the weaponry used in the recent Egyptian conflict, with technical observations on the practices of manufactueres and the quality of the iron and steel employed by them; describing his recent discovery of large deposits of iron ore and manganese, his efforts to establish a company to work the mines he has opened with the aim of mining the metal and converting it into weaponry, and inviting Lord Breresford to join the board of his company.
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