SEELY (John Edward Bernard, 1st Baron Mottistone, 1868-1947, Politician & Soldier)

Typed Letter Signed to General Sir Robert BADEN POWELL (1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) saying that he is "interested to hear of your visit to Canada during August and September. I should much like to see you before you start. Would it not be worth your while to have an official letter of recommendation from Crewe? Let me know, for if so, I will send you one. These letters are often of some convenience even to people like yourself who know most of the official people already ...", and inviting him to lunch, 1 side 4to., Colonial Office headed paper, 22nd July

Seely was Secretary of State for War for the two years prior to the First World War, before being forced to resign as a result of the Curragh Incident. As General Jack Seely, he led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his war horse Warrior in March 1918. Seely was a great friend of Winston Churchill and the only former cabinet minister to go to the front in 1914 and still be there four years later.
From a small group of letters to Baden-Powell.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  40870      £175

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