[General Alexander; Cruikshank; I.K. Brunel] Autograph Letter Signed J.E. Alexander to George Cruikshank, caricaturist, about a monument to Brunel in Scotland.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition, a scrawI. Text: I have only now come to town & was prevented replying to your letter of 28 Nov. sooner. We are getting on slowly but I hope surely with the subscription for the BruneI Statue - but all concerned in this National (Scotch) undertaking must exercise patience - no Committee in Scotland have a such command as you mention (£500) (I hope the Cttee here are coping doing) I came to London for Decr. to work at Blue Books at the War Office connected with the late operations in the Field in New Zealand & to prepare an illustrated work on Bush Fighting I hope to be able to see you before long also [Dr Rogers?] meanwhile I'm very truly yours [...] Note by source of letter: It would seem that the project failed. The only Brunel statue built before 1872 was the one on the Embankment ,dated 1864. But Alexander did produce his book Bush Fighting on the Maori war in New Zealand, He and Cruikshank had met in connection with the similar proposal for the Robert the Bruce statue at Stirling Cast/e, for which Cruikshank had suggested some early designs, Alexander being the chairman of the project committee.