Level | Item |
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | KWH/B/18/120 |
Title | Letter from Lord Mayo, Simla, [India], to Lord Bloomfield, KCB |
Extent | 1 item |
Date | 1869 |
Description | Asks 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 Status | Open |