MILNER
(Alfred, 1854-1925, K.G., High Commissioner for South Africa and Colonial Secretary, 1st Viscount)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Clifford
regretting the he is "out of Town ... I am particularly sorry that I cannot come to you tomorrow evening. I should greatly have enjoyed it. I don't forget that you kindly said I might come & see you & I still hope to avail myself of that permission But I have not been very well and have lived out of Town a good bit this summer ... it has quite cut me off from society ...", 3 sides 8vo, 47 Duke Street, St James's headed paper, Henley, 29th June
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
40033
£150
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MILNER TALKS ABOUT THE GALLIPOLI CRISIS
MILNER
(Alfred, 1854-1925, K.G., High Commissioner for South Africa and Colonial Secretary, 1st Viscount)
Typed letter signed to Mrs Clifford
apologising for the dictated reply as he is "overwhelmed with correspondence. I am so sorry we do not see eye to eye in this matter Of course it is a military question and those who, like myself, don't know absolutely all the military facts, cannot form a perfect judgement. My own view is that, under the altered circumstances, the men are wasted there besides being in great danger; that they might be a great deal more use somewhere else, and that if it is militarily desirable to move them, it is quite wrong not to do so merely because the Turks would crow, or the Australians be disgusted, or we all feel, - as we naturally should - humiliated. All that will happen equally, only more so, if the expedition is allowed to come to complete grief. On the other hand, all this will be got over if the men, who are in themselves splendid, are given a chance somewhere where the conditions are not so horribly against them ... One of the most competent judges I have seen, fresh from the spot, thinks we should lose fewer men in removal than we now lose in one week from disease ...", 2 sides A4, 17 Great Colege Street, Westminster, 19th October
Item Date:
1915
Stock No:
40034
£675
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MILNES
(Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton 1809-1885, Statesman and Poet)
Fine signature "Houghton Richard Monckton Milnes" on House of Lords headed notepaper
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
8117
£10
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MILNES
(Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton 1809-1885, Statesman)
Signature "Houghton"
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0
Stock No:
8116
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MINTO
(Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1782-1859, M.P., F.R.S., from 1814 2nd Earl of)
Autograph letter in French with translation, signed, to Doctor Hupeland,
saying "as Lady Minto is entering her carriage to go to Freienwald, may I be allowed ... to express the profound respect and lively gratitude that all her children share with me on their being restored to health", the Doctor knows the case "too well ... to doubt the feelings that the highest skill, applied with such bounty and kindness, inspire in me", 1 side 4to., Berlin, 14th June
short tear in one margin without loss
Item Date:
1833
Stock No:
16363
£95
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