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    CHARLES WOOD, 1ST VISCOUNT HALIFAX (1800-85)

    Letter from Sir Charles Wood to Colonel Charles Beaumont Phipps

    18 Nov 1850

    Loose manuscript paper; mounted | 1 document (11 pages) (whole object) | RA VIC/MAIN/C/61/30

    Letter from Sir Charles Wood to Colonel Charles Beaumont Phipps to explain his actions taken in appointing a new Auditor of the Civil List and that it is a Civil appointment, rather than one of the Royal Household.

    • Creator(s)

      Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-85) (writer)

      Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801-66) (addressee)

    • 1 document (11 pages) (whole object)

    • Place of Production
      Downing Street [London]
    • Object type(s)
        • printed & manuscript material
          • documents
            • correspondence
      Language(s)
      English
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