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Letter in the hand of Lord Melbourne requesting information on 'Ralph Milbank - midshipman - has been two years in the West Indies in a … schooner, the Jack Daw, making surveys....'. Three pages, not all writing is legible. Further comments written in two other hands, including suggestion to 'ask Captain Beaufort' and that 'He [Milbank] is a mate on board the Jackdaw and passed 17 December 1831'. Lord Melbourne was the brother-in-law of Lord Palmerston, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a time when Lord Palmerston was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. This record is part of a collection relating to Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), after whom Palmerston North was named. The donor of the Lord Palmerston collection, F C Holland of England (who was interested in philately and postal history) donated a number of items related to Lord Palmerton in the 1970s, after visiting Palmerston North. Cut from larger, unknown document.

Identification

Object type
Correspondence
Relation
CA: Palmerston Collection
Date
September 9, 1834
Digitisation ID
2009Pa_PALMERSTON-S1-F2_2890
Held In
Community Archives

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