Military Or Naval Military from Sophie Dupre

letting him know that he has "deferred my departure from England until Wednesday. The time fixed for my departure from Brindisi is the 17th so I shall have to... the journey accordingly, going by Paris... I have asked to have the Endymion sent to meet me at Brindisi and if so we shall not be bound positively to a… Read more about this item

sending "a line to thank you once again for the beautiful service on Remembrance Sunday & for having borne with me (and my beloved old friend - the Bish!) in our Sudan reminiscenses - you may like to have the enclosed 'last' snapshot of 'K. of K.' and your older son may like to have the 'Marlborough Veteran's verse'...",… Read more about this item

(Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron, 1857-1942, Diplomat and Conservative Politician, Paymaster during the First World War) thanking him for his letter and saying that he "will of course take the chair at the meeting on Wednesday, and I hope it wil be possible for me to attend the dinner in the evening. It is, as you say, unfortunate that the… Read more about this item

sending "a line in reply to yours... to say that I will call at your office about 11.30 am on Wednesday next... I much want to see you...", 1 side 8vo., Englemere, Ascot headed paper, 3rd March Roberts, hero of the Relief of Kandahar, won the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny. After relinquishing his Indian command… Read more about this item

thanking him "for letting me know about James Chapman. I am writing to the officer from the Depot at Aberdeen to keep me informed about the poor old pensioner's circumstances and if we cannot get help from the Cambridge fund again, I will appeal to the Scottish Corporation of London...", 2 sides 8vo., Evercreech, Somersest, 8th December … Read more about this item

saying that "the enclosed may help you in your visit to Tel El Kabir. Kindly give it to the Hold Keeper when you have donw with it & he will send to me on my return...", 2 sides 8vo., no date but annotated in another hand as Lord Napier served many years in India, excelling in… Read more about this item

wife of General Henry Seymour RAWLINSON (1st Baron, 1864-1925) saying that he is "sorry that we cannot accept Sir Henry's invitation... I am engaged to dine at the Merchant Taylors' Hall, and Lady Roberts has promised to go there also. It is very kind of you and Sir Henry asking us after very bad behaviour... I was admiring… Read more about this item

5" x 3", Nantwich, 9th November Lord Combermere was 2nd in command at Salamanca, leading the famous charge of Le Marchant's and Anson's Heavy Brigades, but was wounded and sent home. His return passage took 28 days and so he was 3 days late for the battle of Vitoria. In 1815 Wellington was annoyed that… Read more about this item

4" x 2¾", Jersey, 18th October Boulanger was made minister of war as protégé of CLEMENCEAU (Georges, 1841-1929, French Statesman). His nickname was Général Revanche.

saying that "Mr Blair has written to say that he has... Mr F. Robertson to attend the meeting on Wednesday... I hope you will come and bring everyone you can...", 1 side 8vo., 24 Ennismore Gardens, S.W., 21st October no year Plumer had served in Egypt and in Matabeleland, north of the Transvaal. … Read more about this item

thanking him for "sending me the Scouts List. I cannot thank you enough for your kind support on Monday. Men like you on a pubic platform are a guarantee of the soundness of any views put forward by a speaker. I rubbed it in again at the Caledonian Dinner. I proposed the City & Commerce of… Read more about this item

thanking him for his "kind letter and enclosure. At our last meeting we settled to take an office and get a secretary at once. As we had no funds we agreed, for a start, to try & get our friends to help us a bit. I guaranteed £10 & got it in sovereigns, half sovereigns and silver… Read more about this item

Please accept my sincere thanks for the honour you did me in proposing my name...", 4" x 3", no place, no date Bethune raised and led his own regiment, Bethune's Mounted Infantry, in the Second Boer War and directed the Territorials in the First World War. He became General Officer Commanding West Lancashire Division, Territorial Force,… Read more about this item

concluding that "the name will come before me for a vote that has not been carefully considered by the managing committee - when once names come in the formal manner I give my votes first to any whom I know and failing any such, to the candidate that seems most to require help...", 2 sides 8vo., Camberley, Surrey, 11th… Read more about this item

showing him head and shoulders, in profile, looking to his right, in military uniform, in an oval, 4½" x 3¾", in mount 10½" x 8", no place, no date, circa Lieutenant Chard was in command of the supply station at Rorke's Drift during its successful defence by some 150 British and colonial troops on 22nd-23rd January 1879,… Read more about this item

showing him head and shoulders, in slight profile, looking to his right, with a heavy beard, in an oval, 4½" x 3¾", in mount 10½" x 8", no place, no date, circa The term Woodburytype refers to both a photomechanical process and the print produced by this process. The process produces continuous tone images in slight relief.… Read more about this item

the Very RevSamuel HOLE (1819-1904, Priest Author and Horiculturalist, dean of Rochester) saying he will "be very glad to have my name associated in any way with the Good object you have in view. As a brother Mason I wish you every success...", 1 side 8vo., on monogrammed paper, Brighton, 16th April

saying that "our friend Maurice has brought me a book from you as a present. Very strange to say it is a perfect copy of a work that I have long wanted. I had a copy when a boy, but for the last few years I have been on the look out for another as I am… Read more about this item

promising to "do my best for your friend Canon Hole - Our present Chaplain General has done much good in that position that I confess to being in despair at the news contained in your letter. You know what a useless - that is a wild adjective - set of men we used to have as Chaplains … Read more about this item

(George William, 1862-1927, Headmaster of Hertford and Dolgelley Grammar Schools) saying he has been sent his letter "as Colonel of the 17th Lancers and on behalf of the Regiment I beg you will express to the Mayor and Corporation of Hertford, our grateful thanks for wishing to invite us to take part in their Millenary Celebrations during the coming… Read more about this item