23rd April 1856 | Dublin
My dear Sir
There is one feature in Mr Moseley’s report1 of the Burlington House Examination which has not a little astonished me, and to which I beg to direct your attention, as I think you will agree with me in opinion. In noticing the various departments of the examination held in Burlington House reporting progress in some and regreting its absence in others he has carefully ignored the branch of which you had charge, a very cursory glance indeed at the numbers will prove the very great superiority of the answering in this over every other part of the examination. Mr Haughton and I have been largely concerned in bringing about this excellent result and we wish to spare no pains in producing still better results, and as we are hard and I believe successful labourers I think you will allow it is only natural to expect a little encouragement. A cold silence will have a depressing effect on future preparation in this I believe most important branch of the examination
I remain | Yours faithfully | Joseph A. Galbraith.
RI MS JT/2/7/306‒7
Mr Moseley’s report: Report on the Examinations for Appointments to the Royal Artillery and Practical Class of the Military Academy at Woolwich Held …on the 21st of January, 1856 (London: Harrison, 1856), pp. 22–3.
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