Chatham Gallery

Chatham, c1910

Chatham, c1910. The Russian Memorial. Dockyard and Naval Station. Population, 42,660'. Crimea Memorial, Brompton Barracks, Chatham. Memorial arch...erected at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to the Officers and Sappers of the Royal Engineers who fell in the Russian War'. Card from a game containing views of the chief towns in each county, their products & notable buildings etc, beautifully printed in colours'. From The Counties of England - A Geographical Game. [John Jaques & Son, Ltd., London]

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Letter from William Pitt to the Duke of Newcastle, Hayes, 23rd October 1759.Artist: William Pitt

Letter from William Pitt to the Duke of Newcastle, Hayes, 23rd October 1759. Letter from William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, (later Prime Minister), when he was Secretary of State, to the Duke of Newcastle, First Lord of the Treasury, complaining of the concealment from him of a correspondence between Major General Joseph Yorke, British envoy to the Hague, and an unknown lady at Paris concerning proposals of peace. From the first series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I - V, (London, 1899)

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