HOUG/E/M/18/26
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1 Aug. 1870
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Bishopsthorpe, York [embossed notepaper for 54 Lowndes Square, London, S.W.; address crossed through]. - Enclosure [no longer present] concerns her father [James Henry Skene] who is in a depressed state at Aleppo and must be helped to leave; his skill in averting massacres has been overlooked by the Foreign Office; he will not give up the Service; asks Houghton to support her appeal to Lord Granville for his promotion.