THE TOWER,
June, 1866
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MY DEAR SIR JOHN BURGOYNE,
A formal dedication to an officer of your European celebrity would require the enumeration of those
long, brilliant, and useful services by which you have
attained the well-merited honours and distinctions you
enjoy.
However briefly such a list might be drawn out,
your military career ranges over so long a period, and is
so connected with the triumphs of the British arms in
almost every part of the world, that it would occupy a
space neither suitable to the humble pretensions of this
volume, nor agreeable to the simplicity and absence of
ostentation which marks your character.
The latest honour conferred on you by the Queen
'was your appointment as Constable of the Tower, and
it is owing to this circumstance, which has placed me
under your command, that I venture to present you these
Memorials of The Tower as a tribute of respect and
regard.
I am, my dear Sir John,
Very sincerely yours,
DE Ros,
Lieut. - Governor of the Tower.
