Record

Document Reference	Ne C 10131/1-2
Title	Letter from Sir Charles Wood [later 1st Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton], to [Henry Pelham-Clinton], 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; 21 Mar. 1853
Date	21 March 1853
Extent	3 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Encloses a letter [not present] from an unnamed writer regarding a medal; says that Lord [1st Viscount] Hardinge is in 'favour of floating? the medal'; believes that 'we may do it' if the opinion of the [10th Earl of] Dalhousie concurs with that of Hardinge; refers briefly to the 'Canada Cle? Reserves'. Ne C 10131/1 is the wrapper. Some parts of the text have been lost due to fire damage - possibly in the fire at Clumber in 1879.
Term	honours and decorations, medals, unspecified
Term	armies, British (Canadian?), reserves
Physical Description	conserved
Condition	damaged by fire

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA10153	Hardinge; Henry (1785-1856); 1st Viscount Hardinge; Field Marshall and M.P.; Secretary of War 1840-1844; Governor-General of India 1844-1848; cr. viscount 1846	1785-1856
NA9789	Ramsay; James A.B. (1812-1860); Marquess of Dalhousie; governor-general of India 1847-1856	1812-1860
NA211	Wood; Charles (1800-1885); 1st Viscount Halifax; Secretary of State for India 1859-66 created Viscount Halifax 1866	1800-1885
NA945	Clinton; Henry P.F. Pelham- (1811-1864); 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; styled Earl of Lincoln until 1851	1811-1864