480 
DICKSON MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES. 
1810. MSS. Portugal. Diaries. Letters from General and Portuguese 
officers. Memo, of conditions of service of British officers in 
Portuguese Army. 
1811-14. 12 bundles of letters from Captain A. Dickson to D.A.G., R.A. 
relating to Portugal, sieges of Salamanca, Cuidad Rodrigo, 
Burgos, &c., Bidassoa, St. Jean de Luz, operations in Prance, 
battle of Toulouse, expedition to New Orleans and battle of 
Orthes. 
“ 79, Claverton Street, 
London, S.W. 
19th July , 1894. 
Dear General Lloyd, 
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yonr communication, 
dated Horse Guards, W.O., 7tb July, 1894, R.A. Nos. -ff-, and in reply 
I have to request you to be good enough to convey to His Royal 
Pligbness the Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Ckief, my most respectful 
acknowledgment of the gracious and kind terms in which he has ex¬ 
pressed his sense of the value of the gift I have just made to the Royal 
Regiment of Artillery (the collection of MSS. and professional papers 
of my late father, Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson). 
It has afforded to me very great pleasure and gratification to receive 
the thanks of His Royal Highness, and through him that of the Royal 
Regiment of Artillery, for this gift. 
1 cordially agree with the decision of H.R.H. to entrust this valuable 
collection to the custody of the Royal Artillery Institution, and to 
obtain the services of a willing and qualified officer to edit these MSS., 
&c. with a view to publication. 
I would venture to suggest that, in the first instance, the Com¬ 
mittee of the R.A. Institution should make a general examination of 
the MSS., &c. with a view to decide as to the best mode of carrying 
out the decision of H.R.H. and his recommendation as to their publi¬ 
cation in consecutive order. 
In conclusion, I beg to express my sincere hope that these MSS., 
&c. may be properly utilised for the benefit of the Regiment, as well as 
in the illustration of the good and glorious services of the Royal Regi¬ 
ment of Artillery, during the wars and campaigns of the period in which 
the writer took part. 
They will record again and bring to light how well and with what 
intelligence, zeal, and gallantry the Royal Regiment of Artillery gained 
the highest distinction and added to its great reputation. 
Believe me, 
Yours very faithfully, 
C. Dickson, 
General and Col.-Commdt., R.A.” 
