letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.1974-06-35-104

Description

Manuscript letter with draft of reply, Piccadilly 15 Feb 1847. From Hawks, Moseley and Company to Maj Gen Henry Murray. Soliciting for custom in supplying clothes: Helmets, Capes and Accoutrements to Murray's troops at Devonport if he were appointed to Colonelcy of a Regiment of Cavalry, in which they were successful. Hawks, Moseley and Company had previously supplied the 18th Hussars with clothes under Murray's command. From a collection of nine manuscript letters of the period 1847 to 1856 addressed to Maj Gen Sir Henry Murray. Date from the years during which Maj Gen Sir Henry Murray commanded the 7th Dragoon Guards, 1847 to 1853 and the 14th Light Dragoons, from 1853 onwards.

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