There is furthermore inserted upon that military album-leaf a document which, as the knot that fastens it informs us, was given to my cousin by her “dear godfather Huyn.” It is a large folio page of official paper, with the following not uninteresting contents:
K. K. Landesgeneralkommando in
Verona. II. Sektion Nr. 1064
No. 24
To his Excellency, Royal and Imperial
Chamberlain, Colonel, and Sub-Chief of
Quartermaster General’s Staff, &c., &c.,
Johann Count Huyn
The nature of the remodeling required for the defective embrasures in the Molinary and Hlavaty works must be determined by commission.
As chairman of this commission is appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Stwrtnik, Director of Field Artillery of the 2d Army; and as members of it Your Excellency, Lieutenant Colonel von Swiatkiewicz of the General Staff, and Major Khünel of the 7th Regiment of Artillery.