letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.1981-12-53-299

Description

Letter to William Warre from Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, Harley Street, London, 10 Feb 1817. Discusses the chances of getting a friend’s son into the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, with copy of the printed ‘regulations for admission’. One of 101 papers in the collection relating to William Warre’s period as Deputy Quarter Master General, Cape of Good Hope, 1814-1819. From a collection of 566 papers of Lt Gen Sir William Warre (1784-1853) relating to his military career, 1807-1851. Phipps was Warre’s brother-in-law - Warre’s wife Selina Anna Maling and Phipps’s wife Martha Sophia Maling were sisters.

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