Six in-letters and copies of out-letters between FM Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Commander in Chief and Lord George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen the Prime Minister, concerning the offer to Raglan of Corfe Castle as a residence upon his promotion to Field Marshal, May-December 1854.
Together with a letter from Lord Palmerston (Prime Minister) regarding the appointment of a sanitary commission, and subsequent correspondence relating thereto, February 1855.
Associated with Crimean War (1854-1856).