Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/745
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    foo! IV mittee of the Lords and Commons, the Earls of Northumber- land and Salisbury, Sir Harry Vane, Sir Henry Mildmay and Dennis Bond, | p. folio, 27 March, 1648, to pay His Majesty’s coachman £43.—CHARLES II, Doc. s. on vellum, 1665 (9) RDON (Charles George, General) A very fine Series of Thirty- two A. L. s. addressed to Captain Watson, R.I., they cover a period of ten years—commencing trom Cairo, 12th Feb., 1874——when Gordon was completing his preparations for the difficult task of suppressing the slave trade and setting up stable government in the Soudan. In a long letter of 10 pp. Lardo, 25 June, 1875, he gives vent to his prejudice against newspaper correspondents : ' _..1 sent Burnaby [of Khiva fame] a certified copy of my telegram to. Stanton which was asking for leave for him for 9 months not 1. I wish I had the man who translated that telegram. M is angry and with reason at being written about by Burnaby in The Times for it does him harm. If you see or hear from Burnaby tell him that it is on the understood ground that he ceases this sort of correspondence and limits it to descrip- tions of Country & dead objects, etc.; and that he will not write after he leaves, that I accept his presence. I am going to refuse Stanley [the explorer] leave to stay in the province. I object to being daily logged, no one can like it... In Feby., 1877 from Paris he expresses very ‘decided views upon the characters of Khedive Isma’il and his Foreign minister Nubar Pasha. In the summer of 1877 he gives vivid details of the fighting he was engaged in, and the revolt of the Darfur. He comments adversely upon the Egyptian Government Railway in the Soudan, in April, 1878 he is writing _..1 think from what I saw at Cairo that things as they are cannot last in Egypt. H.H. [the Khedive] will be curbed either by a couple of Residents, or the Country will end in Anarchy. The concluding letter is of great interest : ... Nothing will ever restore the Soudan now to peace, for even if success crowns the arms of Tewfik the Country is ruined and will require a large garrison for years. I am in hopes Dono- van of the Daily News will go to the Mahdi and try and arrange matters in some way. Lord Granville’s despatch disowning Hicks would be fatal to my idea to his success. Dufferin let him- self be led into that rotten despatch by his wish for popularity. I heard a lot about all these things from Lawrence Oliphant ae Viana <4). This important correspondence is fully described and anno- tated by F. St. John Morrow in The National Review, Pennell : A Pater-familias like myself is supposed to be a mine of tin and the major part of mankind seem to turn miners and have y a ce 6 VME Hy AQ Vb
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