"I DO NOT SEE MUCH PROSPECT OF MY GETTING A WIFE ..." KITCHENER (Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 1850-1916, Commander in Chief in South Africa, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum)]

Fine Personal Autograph Letter Signed in full to Military Survey Sergeant Major Angus Sutherland thanking him for his letter and saying that he "may be sure I shall always take a great interest in your future after serving me so well in Palestine and Cyprus - I hope you may have a long and happy married life. I do no see much prospect of my getting a wife - I expect to be back in England in about 3 months if all goes well. I shall try & take Cyprus on my way so as to see all my old friends there again ... I have a good deal of hard work here writing up my mail ..." with a postscript saying he is enclosing a photo, 3 sides 8vo., Zanzibar, 9th April

In 1874, aged 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land. By then an officer in the Royal Engineers, Kitchener joined fellow officer Claude R. Conder; between 1874 and 1877 they surveyed Palestine, returning to England only briefly in 1875 after an attack by locals at Safed, in Galilee. Conder and Kitchener's expedition became known as the Survey of Western Palestine because it was largely confined to the area west of the Jordan River. In 1878, having completed the survey of western Palestine, Kitchener was sent to Cyprus to undertake a survey of that newly acquired British protectorate. He became vice-consul in Anatolia in 1879. Sutherland was also in the Royal Engineers and worked under Kitchener in Cyprus for 6 years ending in 1886.
He was created Earl Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent, on June 29th 1914. Unusually, provision was made for the title to be passed on to his brother and nephew, since Kitchener was not married and had no children.


Item Date:  1886

Stock No:  41594     

                


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