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"THE PRESENT GOVT IS AS BAD AS THE GLADSTONE IN EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS"
BAKER
(Sir Samuel White, 1821-1893, Explorer & Sportsman)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Mr Harris"
(
Frank HARRIS
, 1855-1931, Irish Editor, Novelist, Journalist and Publisher) saying that "On receipt of your letter I commenced an Article which will be finished tomorrow. I must ask you however to forgive me for remarking that I do not like alterations to be made in anything that I may write, after the last proofs have been returned, and I would rather decline to publish any article unless I know that every word is my own. Upon two occasions such alterations have been made in the 'Fortnightly' - in one of which, the phrase was curiously unlike any expression that I should myself have used. I have been asked by two or three lately to write an Article on the Soudan but I declined as I am much engaged with a book on practical Natural History. When your note came, the spirit suddenly moved me, although it will do no good. The present Govt is just as bad as the Gladstone in Egyptian affairs, and a little more Radical at home ...", 3 sides 8vo., Sandford Orleight, Newton Abbot, 1st September
Frank Harris was editor of
the Fortnightly Review
at this time.
In 1890 Baker published
Wild Beasts And Their Ways, Reminiscenses Of Europe, Asia, Africa And America
.
Baker was an explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the discoverer of Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Item Date:
1889
Stock No:
39391
£2750
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