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HOUG/E/M/13/61
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Letter from Alexander James William Morrison to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 12 Jul. 1861 (Creation)
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2 ff., with enclosure: 2 ff., printed with MS annotations.
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Broad Town Parsonage, Wootton Bassett, Wilts. - Hopes Milnes has asked the Duke of Somerset about a second chance for Francis [A. R. Morrison]; encloses Civil Service Commission report on his examination. Did not write to the Admiralty about the Purser's clerkship for his second son Henry as he had been led to believe there was no hope of it; did not know Milnes was working for him too. Enclosure: printed circular with MS annotations, 7 Mar. 1861. John Gorham Maitland (on behalf of Civil Service Commissioners) to F. A. R. Morrison: Morrison achieved 15th place in examination for 12 Admiralty clerkships. Contains statement of marks.
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- Morrison, Alexander James William (1806-1865), clergyman, headmaster and writer (Subject)
- St. Maur, Edward Adolphus St. Maur (1804-1885), 12th Duke of Somerset, politician and author (Subject)
- Morrison, Francis Alexander Robert (1842-1910), colonial civil servant (Subject)
- Morrison, Henry John (b c 1843), schoolmaster (Subject)
- Maitland, John Gorham (1818-1863), civil servant (Subject)