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HOUG/E/M/3/37
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Letter from Edward Charles MacIntosh Bowra to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 27 Jun. 1861 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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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.
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- Bowra, Edward Charles MacIntosh (1841-1874), customs clerk and sinologist (Subject)
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) general and nationalist (Subject)
- Benso, Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio (1810–1861), Count of Cavour, Isolabella, and Leri, Italian politician (Subject)
- Verner, Sir William (1782-1871), 1st baronet, army officer and politician (Subject)