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Autograph letter signed : Malta, to Lord Charles [Beresford], 1883 November 30.

BIB_ID
395946
Accession number
MA 13315.15
Creator
Wheeler, Francis S.
Display Date
1883 November 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 page) ; 15.1 x 10 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).
Written on stationery printed "H.M.S. Condor".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Naval news, including efforts to locate a packet containing pins reading "Well done Condor" which appears to have miscarried in the post on the way from London; his impending orders to go to sea to hunt for a rock reported off Cape Bon, for which he has borrowed a sounding machine from the flagship; currently on the lookout "for orders to pay off daily" ("the "Expert" and "Iris" have received their. We shall all be glad of a change of scene, after 3 years and 4 months absence from England.").