BIB_ID
458427
Accession number
MA 14872
Creator
Ponsonby, Henry Frederick, Sir, 1825-1895, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.4 x 12 cm
Notes
The book referred to here is probably Edward Walford's "The jubilee memoir of Her Majesty Queen Victoria" (London : Diprose & Bateman, 1887).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that if he would send a bound copy of his book to Buckingham Palace, he will "lay it before the Queen."; questioning the plausibility of an anecdote in Walford's book concerning the Queen pardoning of a soldier condemned to death for desertion, and asking "How is it probable that a soldier could be sentenced to death for desertion (unless desertion to the enemy) in this century?".
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