Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale NPG Ax50753

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Camille Silvy

Freeman-Mitford entered the Foreign Office in 1858, and was appointed Third Secretary of the Embassy in St Petersburg. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Peking, he went to Japan as Second Secretary to the British Legation. There he wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871), a book that made many classical tales known to a Western public. He returned to England in 1870, and spent twelve years as Secretary to H.M. Office of Works. In 1886 his cousin the Earl of Redesdale died unmarried,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.