Letters written by Edward Newell Harrison and also letters written to his wife Mrs Harrison.

2 letters: contemporary copy, E N Harrison, clerk, at Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, to Captain W A B Hamilton, 5 April 1844, asking to be appointed to a ship; Letter, E N Harrison, clerk, at Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, to Rear Admiral James Dundas, 6 November 1847, recovering from the effects of a three and a half year long cruise in the Mozambique Channel and no wishes to be appointed to a ship.

3 letters: Admiralty to Mrs Harrison, 14 Octagon, Plymouth, 26 January 1855, concerning Vesina being granted a widow’s pension of £40 per annum; Admiralty to Mrs Harrison, 14 Octagon, Plymouth, 16 March 1855, concerning an annual payment of £10 relief from the Compassionate Fund to Mrs Harrison’s child Vesina Harrison; Admiralty at Somerset House, to Mrs Harrison, 16 May 1857, enclosing Mrs Harrison’s late husband’s Arctic medal. [The medal is not with the collection].

2 envelopes addressed to Mrs Harrison, 14 Octagon, paid on 26 October 1858 and 5 April 1855.

Record Details

Item reference: HRR/3; MS1975/061
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1844-1858
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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