HOUG/EM/21/20
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23 Nov. 1870
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
On embossed notepaper for Eshton Hall, Gargrave. - Asks if Houghton will approach Colonel Mon[c]kton about a lieutenancy in 1st West York [Militia] for his grandson, Mathew Amcotts Wilson: he has spent six months at Tours and is now with a private tutor at Croydon; he is companionable and 'good, with Gun, fishing rod, or Saddle'; awkward complication of 'this Russian business'; war in France threatens the stability of Europe.