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Therapia. - Does not have the authority to get Mr [Leader's?] protégé into the Turkish army; has only obtained a few posts; the Turks do not favour the admission of Christians into their services. Congratulations on marriage; Mrs Milnes' father was one of his earliest friends.

Thanks Jane for newspapers for Charles James Monk who has been staying in his rooms in Pera while he visited a number of islands at the behest of Sir S Canning, CJM's books and rifle arrived safely

10 Kensington Garden Terrace, Hyde Park, W. [embossed E. C.]. - The Sultan of Turkey has submitted a claim for an honorary distinction on his behalf to Lord Stanley; refers Houghton to Kinglake's work on the Crimea for an account of his service; asks if Houghton could urge his claim with Lord Stanley or Musurus Pacha; encloses details.

Enclosures: printed testimonial from 'Omer' [Omer Pasha] to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, dated Rouschouk, 19 Aug. 1854; printed memorandum of proposals relating to rank and remuneration of British officers serving with the Turkish army during the Crimean War.

Evidence against the argument that Lord Canning was responsible for 'improving' J H Monk's article on Brougham

227: Letter from Eliza Canning, Viscountess de Redcliffe, to Lord Houghton [1869?]
228: 'Lines on the late Lady Canning' [Charlotte Canning, wife of Charles, 1st Earl Canning] [after 1861].

Met Charles James Monk at Athens

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Praises his lines in The Times (on the funeral of Miss Berry).

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Transcript

tuesday Morning

My dear Mr Milnes

I cannot resist telling you with how much pleasure I have just read some lines in the Times to the memory of our late lamented friends of Curzon Street. They are an act of justice to the objects of their praise, doing, in my humble judgement, honor† to the talents and feelings of their author. I cannot, of course, presume to decypher the hieroglyphics which follow the concluding stanza, but if you know any one, whose name bears the initials of R. M. M. I beg you will assure him of my warmest sympathy.

I hope we are to have the pleasure of seeing you at dinner today.

Sincerely your’s
Stratford de Re[dcliffe] {1}

R. M. Milnes Esqr. M.P. {2}

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{1} The rest of the name is hidden where the letter is pasted to the leaf of the volume.

{2} This direction is at the foot of the first page.

† Sic.