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Reference code
HOUG/E/M/2/5
Title
Letter from Friedrich Althaus to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 1 Feb. 1865 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
5 South Bank, Regents Park, London. - Dismissal from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, due to budget cuts which now threaten others; was appointed German master; outlines strict conditions of service; complied at some personal cost in the belief that appointment was permanent; now has a family and no prospect of a Civil Service pension; can Houghton help him gain compensation; his catalogue of historical portraits at Buckingham Palace; influential friends.