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Wetmore, William, 1749-1830 to Henry Jackson Hunt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.110 Author/Creator: Wetmore, William, 1749-1830 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 22 July 1876 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.4 cm Order a Copy

Possibly served under Hunt during the Civil War. Thanks Hunt for letters of introduction he used while traveling the world. Mentions Colonel Talbot, Lieutenant Colonel Peel, and Earl Stanhope, who assisted him greatly while he stayed in London. Remarks that the Comte de Paris and Duke de Chartres were away when he was in France. Traveled through Japan, China, Malaysia, Ceylon, India, and other locales. Mentions military reunions. Discusses a cavalryman who recently died; Wetmore attests that his service eclipsed the charge of the 13th British Light Brigade at Balaclava, Ukraine, 1854

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889
Wetmore, William B., fl. 1861-1876
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805-1875

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