Autograph Letter Signed to "Lennox" (Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox, Royal Engineers (see DNB)). WITH related material.

Director of the Topographical Department at the War Office (1836-1905)(see DNB). Two pages, 8vo, fold marks but good condition. "I send you today the remainder of the plans you left with me; and a translation of the letter press on those of the environs of Vienna. The plans of the defences of Vienna during the war of /66 are very interesting and I should be glad to have them for the Topo: if you will present them to the Dept: after you have finished with them. They are rather too extensive to lithograph here and my draftsmen have their hands full, but I think it would be well worth while having them lithod: in the School at Chatham as examples of what was actually done in war time." WITH: (presumably those referred to above) 4 printed plans (numbered 1, 3-5, two absent), 25" x 18", chipped and minor defects, plans of the fortifications at Floridsdorf in 1866 in a German text (prepared by R. Wagner - "Oestreichische Befestigung", etc.) annotated in English in pencil, prob. translations. AND WITH: (manuscript) drawing of similar fortification to the printed ones (hexagon) with an alphabetical key to points on drawing in French, c.10" x 20". Note( DNB) "From November 1866 [Lennox] held for five years the post of instructor in field fortification at the school of military engineering at Chatham, where his energy and experience were of great value. He originated a series of confidential professional papers to keep his brother officers au courant with matters which could not be published, and also a series of translations of important foreign works on military engineering subjects . . . ."