title: 'How to Get up a Testimonial', Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 22 August 1856, P. 2.
abstract: A very large sum was subscribed, contemporaneously with the Patriotic Fund, to render assistance to the distressed wives and relatives of soldiers in the Crimea who could not claim under the other fund, or at least were debarred from aid by its too stringent rules. The amount contributed to the first fund reached, we believe, the sum of £70,000, and was entrusted for distribution to a certain Major Powis,[sic] of the “Rifles,” a busy and officious sort of personage, who talked much, wrote much, 