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Reference code
HOUG/D/C/3/8/11
Title
Letter from Saxe Bannister to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 19 Apr. 1842 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Scope and content
Colonial Society, 16 St James [sic] Square. - Recommends Crown pension for the widow of Thomas Pringle, author of the accompanying poems [no longer present]; she receives £20 from the Queen's Bounty but her special claims are set out in newspaper article [no longer present]; Milnes must consider related issues as a member of the West African Committee; own suggestions [missing] might benefit her. Colonel Fox knew Pringle in South Africa and has been kind to his widow.