From Captain Cartwright, 48th Regiment.
Tipperary, 30th June, 1881.
My dear Brooke,
Many thanks for your letter and for the two Photos. enclosed, both of which have taken their place in our Regimental Walhalla, and I hope will be handed down to posterity, carrying with them the recollection of old Officers, and one certainly a very distinguished Officer, of whom any regiment may be proud as having been numbered in its ranks. I return you the old Photograph of your Brother (General Brooke), for I fancy you may value it. Both in front and on the back there is his handwriting....
Yours sincerely,
R. A. CARTWRIGHT.
From Colonel Forbes, Commanding 109th Regiment.
Aldershot, July 2nd, 1881.
Dear Sir,