MILNER (Alfred, 1854-1925, K.G., High Commissioner for South Africa and Colonial Secretary, 1st Viscount)

Autograph formal Letter in the third person saying that “Lord Milner greatly regrets that owing to absence from town on that date, he is unable to have the honour to accept the invitation of the Lord Mayor to meet H.I.H. Prince Fushimi at luncheon at the Mansion House...”, 1 side 8vo., 47 Duke Street, 22nd April

Milner laboured for eight years in the most delicate situations, following on from the Jameson raid, learning Dutch and Afrikaans, negotiating with Kruger over the rights of British subjects in the Transvaal, and carrying on through the South African War and the period of “reconstruction”.
Prince Fushimi SADANARU (1858-1923, was a Field Marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army, 22nd head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnoke branch of the Imperial family).

Item Date:  1907

Stock No:  41840      £145

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