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Here He Subsequently Escaped on the American Whaler Catalpa, Whole in Butler's Case the Sentence May Have Been Quashed (Cf S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A1a Accession Number: A1a No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 3 April 1855 Correspondent: Evans, Sir de Lacy Notes: Sealed envelope within a sealed envelope, marked 'Copy of Letters from Sir James Lindsay and Sir De Lacy Evans relating to Capt. lane Fox', containing:- a) Copy of letter from De Lacy Evans to Military Secretary, Horseguards, 3rd. April, 1855. The Commander of the 2nd. Division testifies that Pitt-Rivers who was Deputy Assistant QMG acted as Assistant QMG in the place of his superior, Lt/Col. Herbert, when he was ill in Bulgaria and wounded at the Alma. He would be suitable to hold Assistant rather than Deputy Assistant's post in Malta. The original of this letter is as Hinton St. Mary, see Appendix II, nos. 38-40. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A1b Accession Number: A1b No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 3 April 1855 Correspondent: Evans, Sir de Lacy Notes: Sealed envelope within a sealed envelope, marked 'Copy of Letters from Sir James Lindsay and Sir De Lacy Evans relating to Capt. lane Fox', containing:- ... b) Extract from Colonel Hay's Return relating to the Practice at Malta and Gibraltar (dated 24th. July, 1857, issued to the Army October, 1857.) Annotations by Pitt- Rivers. This severe criticism of the methods of training in Malta was published in 3rd. Annual Report...of the School of Musketry...(1857), p.15. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A1c Accession Number: A1c No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 3 April 1855 Correspondent: Evans, Sir de Lacy Notes: Sealed envelope within a sealed envelope, marked 'Copy of Letters from Sir James Lindsay and Sir De Lacy Evans relating to Capt. lane Fox', containing:- ... c) Copy of long letter (5 pp.) from Hon. Sir James Lindsay, Colonel Commanding Grenadier Guards, to Sir James Scarlett, Adjutant-General, dated-February, 1861. The letter is concerned with the criticisms made by Hay in A1b and says that Pitt- Rivers had not been actuated by opposition to a senior office in his protests. The gist of his case was that the method of training had not been devised by Pitt-Rivers but had been carried out on the orders of the Commander in Malta, Sir John Pennefather, who is quoted to this effect. For fuller details see nos. 38-46, 51-58 in Appendix II. This explanation was evidently accepted since his name seems to have cleared. Worry over the Inquiry into this matter had caused his wife to become seriously ill in December, 1860 9b. and P. Russell (ed.) The Amberley Papers..(London, 1937), 1, 107-08.) Although the precise nature of Pitt-Rivers' assignment in Canada in December 1861 is not clear it was evidently related to the musketry training, and is an indication of his re- instatement. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A2 Accession Number: A2 No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 1 December 1862 Correspondent: Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Notes: Copied from The Times of 1st. December, (?1862). Southern soldiers in American Civil War prefer smooth-bore to rifle as they rarely fire at more than 200 yards range. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A3 a Accession Number: A3 a No. of sheets: Unknown Date: Unknown Correspondent: Unknown Notes: a-d [1 of] short drafts or fragments by Pitt-Rivers, a-c definitely military and d possibly so. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A3 b Accession Number: A3 b No. of sheets: Unknown Date: Unknown Correspondent: Unknown Notes: a-d [1 of] short drafts or fragments by Pitt-Rivers, a-c definitely military and d possibly so. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A3 c Accession Number: A3 c No. of sheets: Unknown Date: Unknown Correspondent: Unknown Notes: a-d [1 of] short drafts or fragments by Pitt-Rivers, a-c definitely military and d possibly so. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A3 d Accession Number: A3 d No. of sheets: Unknown Date: Unknown Correspondent: Unknown Notes: a-d [1 of] short drafts or fragments by Pitt-Rivers, a-c definitely military and d possibly so. ... Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A3 e Accession Number: A3 e No. of sheets: Unknown Date: Unknown Correspondent: Unknown Notes: ... e undated note to Pitt-Rivers apparently military, illegible signature. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A4 Accession Number: A4 No. of sheets: 5 sheets Date: 22 March 1861 Correspondent: Shakespear, G.B. Notes: A report of 5 sheets dealing with coastal defences in Ireland, evidently inherited by Pitt-Rivers on his arrival at Cork in 1862. Cf R3. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A5 Accession Number: A5 No. of sheets: 28 sheets Date: Unknown Correspondent: Shakespear, G.B. Notes: Report of the Commercial Harbour Commission. 28 sheets. Reports of 5 Committees made in 1858 dealing with anchorages on the Irish coast and artillery necessary to protect them. Cf R3. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A6 Accession Number: A6 No. of sheets: 1 sheet Date: Unknown Correspondent: Smith, Major Michael Notes: 1 sheet entitled 'Extracts from the Queen's Regulations for the Suppression of Riots'. Signed Michael Smith, Major of Brigade. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A7 Accession Number: A7 No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 8 February 1864 Correspondent: Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Notes: Unfinished letter from Assistant Quartermaster General's office opening 'Sir'. The addressee is to retain whole troop at Killarney should the civil magistrates require it. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A8 a Accession Number: A8 a No. of sheets: 8 sheets Date: Unknown Correspondent: Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Notes: 8 sheets. 'Opening address in the case of Drum Major Butler'. The President of the court was Colonel Shute. The charge was treason, Fenian conspiracy. The text shows that Pitt-Rivers had also been prosecuting officer against Sergeant Darragh of the 2nd. Regiment. Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A8 b Accession Number: A8 b No. of sheets: 2 sheets Date: 1864 Correspondent: Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Notes: 2 sheets, headed 'Notes on the Defence of Darragh'. Barely legible, possibly being written during the speech of the defending officer. Darragh had had 14 years service. The full proceedings of the courts material are available at the Public Record Office. (WO/33/17a, pp. 255-435, 483-91) and the doubts and hesitations of the authorities (WO/81/113, pp. 119-28 et passim). Thomas Darragh was tried 9 Feb. to 2 March, 1866 and James Butler 2-8 March. Both were convicted, Darragh being sentenced to death and Butler to penal servitude for life. Darragh was transported to Australia from where he subsequently escaped on the American whaler Catalpa, whole in Butler's case the sentence may have been quashed (cf. WO/81/114, p.11.) Other comments: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt-Rivers' letters catalogue - http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers Letter series A8 c Accession Number: A8 c No. of sheets: Unknown Date: 1867 Correspondent: Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Notes: Unfinished letter which deserves quotation: "I have read with much interest the paper which you have addressed to the members of the Anthropological Society upon the Irish Government difficulty considered as a question of race. During three years ending in - it happened to be part of my duty as Assistant General in the Southern division of Ireland to investigate and report to the military authorities upon matters relating to the spread of Fenianism in that part of the country which I took in the anthropological view of the question... I may say briefly thus. I have arrived at the conclusion that Fenianism must be regarded as a war of races indeed. I fail to discern any other sufficient causes for the chronic disaffection of Ireland. There is I think in the present empirical condition of the art of Government an undue tendency to attribute to political causes questions the solutions of which must be sought for in the social, ethnical and psichological [sic] condition of the people to be governed..." The paper referred to could be that by J.
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