Item 23 - Letter from Joseph Wolff to Richard Monckton Milnes

2 ff.

Vicarage, Isle-Brewers near Langport in Staffordshire. - When Wolff was imprisoned at Bokhara Lord Aberdeen promised a clerkship in the Foreign Office for his son; asks if Milnes will intercede on his behalf with Aberdeen's successor Lord Palmerston. On his own behalf, seeks subscribers to the third edition of his work; heavy losses on first two editions; current parish expenses.