[44] There is a succinct account of organizations and reorganizations between 1854 and 1868 in a Memorandum on the Organization of the War Office by Captain Galton, dated November 1868.
[46] Letter of April 12, 1896, to Mrs. Henry Bonham Carter.
[47] He had succeeded to the earldom of Dalhousie on the death of his cousin, the 10th earl and first marquis, in Dec. 1860.
[48] Mr. R. Monckton Milnes had been created Baron Houghton in 1863.
[49] It is in Hansard on March 6, 1865.
[50] Hansard, June 19 and 30, 1865.
[51] The history of this affair, which excited a prodigious interest in Parliament and the press, may be read by the curious in vol. xxxiii. of the Parliamentary Papers of 1863, and vol. xxxv. of those of 1864. Miss Nightingale's good offices were asked by the War Office to parry an attack by “Jacob Omnium,” for whose part in the affair see Essays on Social Subjects, by Matthew John Higgins, 1875, pp. lvi.–lx.
[52] It certainly was dull: see Hansard, March 3, 1864.