SANDERSON (Sir Thomas H., 1841-1923, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1st Baron)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Paul Vinogradoff, 1854-1925, the Russian-born legal historian, saying that "the big man with short grey whiskers who sat next to me at King's College ... was I think the Hon. Richard Parsons ... brother of the ... developer of the Turbine ... I would be very grateful for a copy" of Vinogradoff's lecture "to study ... I thought the audience were going to encore you - and that ... I should interpose for your preservation ... Lord Kitchener was a personal friend of many years and I could not trust my voice for a concluding sentence", 4 sides 8vo., 65 Wimpole Street, W., 9th June

Lord Kitchener had gone down in HMS Hampshire on 5th June, sailing to Russia to help rearm the Russian forces.

Item Date:  1916

Stock No:  19205      £35

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