KITCHENER (Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 1850-1916, Commander in Chief in South Africa, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum)]

Second Page of a Typed Letter Signed "Kitchener" with an autograph postscript starting "will be able to come and, if so, perhaps you could bring a shorthand-writer to take down what Togo and Nogi say to be published subsequently in your paper. I am telling them to address the boys as to what Bushido is and what it has done for them in Japan ...", the postscript says that if he has "any difficulty but about a short hand writer I could provide one from here", signed with an inital 'K', 1 side 4to., no place, no date but

Bushidō are regulations for samurai attitudes, behavior and lifestyle. It is loosely analogous to the European concept of chivalry. There are multiple Bushido types which evolved significantly through history. Contemporary forms of bushido are still used in the social and economic organization of Japan. Bushido is best used as an overarching term for all the codes, practices, philosophies and principles of samurai culture.
Marshal-Admiral the Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō(1848-1934), served as admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. In 1911, Tōgō returned to England for the first time in over 30 years to attend the coronation of King George V, the Coronation Fleet Review at Portsmouth, to attend naval alumni dinners and visit dockyards on the Clyde and in Newcastle.
Count Nogi Maresuke(1849-1912) was a Japanese General in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. Nogi is significant to Scouting in Japan, as in 1911, he went to England in attendance on Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito for the coronation of King George V. The General, as the "Defender of Port Arthur" was introduced to General Robert Baden-Powell, the "Defender of Mafeking", by Lord Kitchener, whose expression "Once a Scout, always a Scout" remains to this day.
Although the first page is missing this letter is from a collection of letters to Sir Robert BADEN POWELL(1857-1941, Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts) and as it referring to addressing scouts it has to be to him.

Item Date:  1911

Stock No:  40875      £275

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