Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/E/M/18/26
Title
Letter from Zoe Thomson to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 1 Aug. 1870 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 ff.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Bishopsthorpe, York [embossed notepaper for 54 Lowndes Square, London, S.W.; address crossed through]. - Enclosure [no longer present] concerns her father [James Henry Skene] who is in a depressed state at Aleppo and must be helped to leave; his skill in averting massacres has been overlooked by the Foreign Office; he will not give up the Service; asks Houghton to support her appeal to Lord Granville for his promotion.