HOBART PASHA

(Hon Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, 1822-1886, Admiral in the Turkish Service)

Autograph Letter Signed 'Hobart Pasha' to Thomas Douglas Murray,

(1841-1911, Barrister, amateur Egyptologist and friend of Whistler), thanking him for your kind souvenirs and good wishes, monogram AHH at head, 17 Berkeley Square, 1 side 8vo, Wednesday 7th April no year but

Item Date: 1886

'regards' in subscription is faint, apparently originally so, elsewhere good

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Retiring from the Royal Navy in 1862, Hobart's love of adventure led him to blockade-running in the American Civil War. He ran the blockade 18 times, taking armaments to Charleston and returning with a cargo of cotton. In 1867 he entered the Turkish service and was immediately made rear-admiral. In the war with Russia of 1877-1878 his fleet dominated the Black Sea and successfully blockaded the ports of South Russia and the mouths of the Danube.

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