[Lord Fitzroy Somerset, later Lord Raglan.] Secretarial Letter, Signed by him, regarding the application to purchase a commission by Captain Thomas Monck Wilson, 59th Foot, on behalf of his son Charles.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, on aged paper with nicks and small closed tears to extremities. Addressed to ‘Thos. M. Wilson Esqre / the Captain 59 foot’, and signed ‘Fitzroy Somerset’. The document is in a secretarial hand, only the signature being in Somerset’s autograph. He has received and submitted to ‘the Commander in Chief’ Wilson’s letter regarding his son ‘Mr Charles Monck Wilson’, whose application to become ‘a Candidate for the purchase of a Commission in the Infantry of the Line’ ‘His Grace will have much pleasure in considering’, one he has ‘attained the prescribed age’. He ends with an enquiry regarding ‘the young gentleman’s precise date of birth’. C. M. Wilson had joined the army by 1852, but by 1870 he was working as parish clerk and registrar in Limerick.