Item 23 - Letter from Frederick Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele to [Lord Houghton]

1 folded sheet.

Grosvenor Hotel, Park St. - [His brother] Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton was with him in early August, and was a member of a party from Broughton Castle to Edgehill, where 'he explained the Bearings of the Fight with all the Precision of one who had been in it'; he 'never saw him again'. Edward 'had evidently been ailing, tho he told noone of it, both in Eye Sight, the Liver, and the Head'. Thinks these symptoms led his brother to cross the Channel 'that he might trouble no one'. Lord Saye and Sele's son received a telegram from the landlord of the Hotel des Bains at Boulogne on 4 Oct., summoning him over; he found Edward 'sinking' and he did not survive the evening of the 5th.

Transciption of the report of the Chief Physician of the hospital at Boulogne, Dr Dehannel, 18 Oct. 1874, which found that the primary cause of symptoms and death was 'Cerebral Affection localised at the point where the Optic Nerves take root'.

Since it is 'no longer a secret', mentions that in 1860 Lord Granville offered Edward the Clerkship of the Council now held by Sir Arthur Helps, on the resignation of Mr Bathurst.