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Benso, Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio (1810–1861), Count of Cavour, Isolabella, and Leri, Italian politician
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Letter from Edward Charles MacIntosh Bowra to Richard Monckton Milnes
HOUG/E/M/3/37 · Stuk · 27 Jun. 1861
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Church Cottage, Northfield, Worcestershire. - Was engaged as a clerk in the Examiner's Office of the Customs but resigned to join Garibaldi's army last autumn; served throughout campaign; Milnes' recent rebuke to the MP who saw '"the finger of God in the death of Count Cavour"'; hopes this sympathy will induce him to assist Bowra in regaining his post; Sir William Verner will vouch for his character; has permission to compete for a student interpretership in Japan but may have to wait years for a vacancy; quotes personal particulars and referees.