WOOD (Sir Henry Evelyn, V.C., 1838-1919, Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Army 1882-1886, from 1903 Field-Marshal)

Fine Typed Letter Signedwith autograph subscription and corrections to Sir Robert BADEN POWELL (1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) thanking him and saying that he will "live as long as I can conveniently. Perhaps I should be wiser if I stopped in doors and tried to dictate answers to some hundreds of letters I have got, than I am in going out to look for a fox in a snow storm but still as yet I have only got ninty-nine [sic] days booked and as I am unlike the American, who advised his friend, who boasted of having shot nine hundred and ninty-nine rabbits, to make it a thousand. He replied: 'Sir, do you think I would imperil my immortal soul for one rabbit.' So I am going to make up my hundred days ...", 1 side 8vo., Millhurst, Harlow, 25th March



Item Date:  1911

Stock No:  40865      £175

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