155606/716/War Department/Pall Mall/26th December 1856. Madam, His Imperial Majesty, the Sultan having been pleased to place at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government a sum of money for the benefit of the ladies and nurses who served in the British Hospitals on the Bosphorus and in the Crimea, I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty has been pleased to approved of my offering to each lady entitled to participate in this Gift, a personal ornament commemorative of the service thus rendered by her to the Sick and Wounded of Her Majesty's Forces engaged in the late War in the East. In forwarding this ornament to you it affords me much satisfaction to accompany the gift with the expression of the sense entertained by Her Majesty's Government of your arduous and disinterested services in attending them and mitigating the sufferings of the Sick and Wounded in the British Hospitals in the East. I have to request that you will be so good as to acknowledge the receipt of this letter and the enclosures. I have the honor to be, Madame, Your most obedient Servant, Panmure