Record

LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/B/18/120
TitleLetter from Lord Mayo, Simla, [India], to Lord Bloomfield, KCB
Extent1 item
Date1869
DescriptionAsks for a new bandmaster for the Viceroy's band which has fallen into a poor state: 'our evenings are hideous by its discord'; hope that '.. in a country so musical as Austria you might be able to induce a real good musician to accept the office ...'
18 May 1869

[Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India 1869-1872; John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield (1802-1879) , British ambassador to Vienna]
Access StatusOpen

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