[Lord Charles Beresford, Royal Navy admiral and British Member of Parliament.] Autograph Letter Signed (‘Charles Beresford’) to Sir Richard Temple, regarding the ‘grievance’ of General Sir Henry Ramsay over his pension.

See the entries for Beresford and Temple in the Oxford DNB (in an unfortunate omission, Ramsay - ‘The King of Kumaon’ - is not represented in that work). 3pp, 12mo. Ruckled, with second leaf laid down on a piece of card, and damage along the gutter repaired with archival tape. Twenty-nine lines of text. Signed ‘Charles Beresford’. He has received ‘a long explanatory letter from General Sir Henry Ramsey [sic] containing the explanation of a grievance by which he has lost £300 a year since 1884. [H]e has therefore been receiving about £824 instead of 1124 as pension.’ From his reading of the letter Beresford conceives that he ‘has a real & substantial grievance, as Lord Hartington’s despatch of 1881 clearly intima[tes] that any Colonel of the India[n] Army not on the effective serv[ice] shall receive £1124 a year pension[,] whether he resides in India or elsewhere’. He gives the two reasons he supposes why Ramsay has not received the full pension, before concluding: ‘I understand you are going to take the question up and I shall be only too glad to support you’.