WINGATE
(Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, Governor-General of the Sudan 1899-1916 and from 1920 1st Baronet)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Reginald Wingate’ to ‘My dear Vicar’
sending “a line to thank you once again for the beautiful service on Remembrance Sunday & for having borne with me (and my beloved old friend - the Bish!) in our Sudan reminiscenses - you may like to have the enclosed ‘last’ snapshot of ‘K. of K.’ and your older son may like to have the ‘Marlborough Veteran’s verse’...”, 1 side 8vo., Elylands, Edenbridge, ‘Armistice Day’, 11th November
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
42170
£225
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WINGATE
(Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, Governor-General of the Sudan 1899-1916 and from 1920 1st Baronet)
Typed Letter Signed ‘Reginald Wingate’ to R. Nicholson CMG, CBE,
Secretary of the Royal African Society who retired from the post in 1938, saying that “by some extraordinary lapse, I entirely missed the inclusion of your name in the New Year’s Honours List and it was only when I got the African World on Saturday that I saw your name was included in the List for a C.B.E. I cannot tell you what sincere gratification this gave me and I am sure all your friends will rejoice with me that your splendid services while Secretary of the Royal African Society have been recognised in this way. I hope you will live long to enjoy this honour and perhaps other which may follow... I do not know whether you saw a letter published in the ‘Times’... from my son, dealing with the Refugee and Palestine questions and strongly recommending the adoption of British Guiana as a home for them. As you have had a good deal of experience in that part of the world perhaps some day we can arrange a meeting between yourself, my son and myself to talk the matter over, that is to say, if you are free, but I suppose you do not come to London more often than you can help. I do hope your general health has improved...”, 2 sides 4to., Queen Anne’s Mansions, St James’s Park, 9th January
Item Date:
1939
Stock No:
42566
£225
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WINGATE
(Sir Francis Reginald, 1861-1953, Sirdar of the Egpytian Army, Governor General of the Sudan, High Commissioner in Egypt)
Fine Signature and “General” with the date
on a card, 4¼” x 3¼”, no pllace, 16th July
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
43584
£35
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WOLSELEY COMMENTS ON AN ARTICLE BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT ATTACKING HIM
WOLSELEY
(Garnet, Viscount, 1833-1913, Field Marshal, C-in-C of the Army)
Important collection of two excellent Autograph Letters Signed both marked ‘Private’ to Edward A. ARNOLD
(1857-1942, Grandson of Thomas Arnold and Nephew of Matthew Arnold, Editor of Murray’s Magazine) thanking him “for sending the latest number of your magazine - I have skimmed over... Roosevelt’s article which deals with me. My article which he criticises was certainly written in no hostile feeling towards America or its people. I am very fond of both, & I tried to avoid all points upon which I knew that small minded men from the other side of the Atlantic are thin skinned about. We have all our national peculiarities, & when ours are laughed at by outsiders, we don’t fly off into coarse, vulgar abuse... as Mr Roosevelt’s article seems to abound in. I never heard of him before but I presume he is a literary man & knows his trade. I am not a literary man & I shall not venture to criticise his knowledge of it. What a pity that he did not assume... that I know my trade also! He is evidently a very strong party politician, & it is but natural therefore that as a Northerner, he should hate an outsider to write or speak of General Lee as I have done. It is very galling to men of his stamp that the great huge masses of men collected from the four winds of heaven by the Northern states, & supplied with everything which money could purchase to make them into soldiers, should have been kept at bay for years, & defeated over and over again by small Southern Armies. I admit all this & I know from long residence in American how impossible it is for the ordinary Northerners like Mr Roosevelt to write dispassionately, I might say with common fairness, upon matters connected with General Lee or the great Confederate war. I was in American when Mr Lincoln & his Cabinet trembled for the safety of Washington. I saw northern & Southern troops & know what both were like and the value I attached... I have carefully avoided giving expressions to those feelings, to those opinions because I should hate to hurt the susceptibilities of a people that I am very fond of, of a nation sprung from the same roots as my own, that speaks our language, uses our laws & above all things, whose minds are educated by the same literature. I cannot help thinking that your friend does not represent what is best or most refined in the American nation. The Americans whom I know are as patient of others views, opinions as they expect others to be of theirs and do not scold when argument fails them. You ask me to write you something that you should publish in answer to Mr Roosevelt’s attack upon me. I regret I cannot do so. I have written the foregoing for your own amusement, thinking it might interest you, but I have long since made it a rule never to answer any such attacks. It is quite fair that Mr Roosevelt should express himself as having no opinion of me as a soldier, & should criticise all I have ever done in the field or scribbled in magazines. I presume he is a professional writer & I should therefore be sorry to enter upon a war of styles with him. In such a war I should be easily - very easily defeated. However on military subjects, it is possible I might hold my own with him, although he does lay down the law upon them as if he was a recognised authority. I have not the time nor the inclination to embark on a war of words...”, 7 sides 8vo., Fir Grove House, Farnham, 29th August 1888. The second letter says that he was flattered by his letter but that he is “sorry to say that I could not at present rush into print on Army matters. I am not supposed to give any public expression to my views which are far in advance of those who are my superiors, & therefore not palatable always to them. Were it otherwise, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to comply with your flattering request...”, 3 sides 8vo., Oakdene Guildford, no date
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
43567
£575
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WOLSELEY
(Garnet, Viscount, 1833-1913, Field Marshal, C-in-C of the Army)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
telling her that he is going “out of town on Sunday morning early, so I cannot have the pleasure of calling upon you in the middle of the day, as you so kindly said I might do, but as I return in the afternoon I shall do myself the honour of paying you a visit about 5 pm on the chance of seeing you then...”, 2 sides 8vo., War Office, Friday, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43520
£55
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