Description |
[WWI] 13 signed items. ++ Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. ALS. 1 sentence, on Correspondence card, to Sir Edward Sinclair May. Dated “6. VI. 09,” signed “D. Haig. Commander in Chief of expeditionary forces in France and Flanders (1915-19), Commander in Chief of the Home forces 1919-1921. ++ TLS by Haig to W. H. Hadow (Vice Chancellor the the University of Sheffield. Briefly thanks Hadow for an honorary LL.D. 13th January, 1920, on General Headquarters of the Forces of the Horse Guards letterhead. Slight toning, very good. ++ 4 ALsS by Gen. Sir Ivor Maxse to Sir Edward Hutton. 1 dated “28. Oct. 05.” 2 dated “2 Nov. 1905.” 1 is “5. Nov.” The Oct. 28 letter begins by discussing publication of a book Maxse was writing. “...work in the Boer War, and I am wondering if you would allow me to send you the typed M. S. this next week… My book is not a biography, but an attempt to show what young officers… do. It includes Somaliland, Uganda, Nigeria, Egyptian Sudan…” Combined total of [15]pp (each short in length), 12mo, Near fine, pinhole. ++ “Faithfully/ John Hill/ Major General.” Cut signature. Mounted on lined paper. Staining. Hill commanded the 52nd Lowland Division in WWI. ++ “From General Sir Charles Townsend/ with compliments.” Cut signature. ++ Major Joseph Joffrey. Signature card (“J. Joffrey”). With printed Red Cross postcard. ++ Gen. Dunsterville. Handwritten receipt for a payment of L30-19-0, on 16/12/22. Postage stamps. 12mo. ++ Dunsterville. Quotation from Rudyard Kipling (4 ½ lines of verse from The Last Department), handwritten and signed by Dunsterville. May 1937. 12mo. ++ Gen. Sir John Monash. TLS. 5th March, 1928, to Rose Slutzkin in Melbourne. ++ Admiral Beatty. TLS. 1st December, 1922. 2 sentences. 4to. Near fine.
|