Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir James' EMERSON TENNENT (Sir John Fox, 1782-1871, Engineer, Field Marshal)

(1804-1869, Traveller and Politician) saying that he hopes "you will not think that I had forgotten the desire expressed in our note of 11th Inst for a Copy of certain Meteorological observations from Ceylon, but it has taken some little time to obtain the information, & now I send it with a note from Lt Col. James R.E. Superintendant of the Ordnance Survey, who has organised the system of collecting Meteorological observations, over different parts of the world, by means of the Engineer Officers. If you require the details to which he adverts, you can have access to them as he proposes. I enclose also the whole of Col. James' last Report as it may interest you to see what we are doing...", 3 sides 8vo., War Department, Pall Mall, Ofice of Inspecror General of Fortifications, 21st November Sir John served as engineer with Sir John Moore and with Wellington throughout the Peninsular War, then in America, France and Portugal, and was Inspector General of Fortifications 1843-1868.