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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 158 Language: English.
Published by On letterhead of the India Office Whitehall. 19 June no year
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper with light staining (affecting the signature). In a difficult hand. He is sending 'the addresses of the friends & relatives of the Brownes, Bunny, & Cassidy', but 'cannot get those of or Higginson'.
Published by 23 October ; 119 The Avenue West Ealing London, 1906
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 11pp, 12mo, with three of the pages written lengthwise. On three bifoliums. In good condition, folded once. The hurried loose handwriting of this long letter presents a considerable challenge: even the signature ( Geo Birdwood. ? Gen Birdwood. ?) and the name of the recipient ( Fagan ?) are doubtful. The letter begins with a reference to the extract from Lady Dorothy Nevills - Reminiscences - given in the cutting from the Globe of yesterday enclosed in your kind note of today . He states that he had nothing to do with the origination of the Primrose League, & I refused to have anything to do with it when asked to join in its constitution. It was Primrose Day I founded . The passage which follows is opaque. Later on he states I never wd have anything to do with the League. I abominate woman in politics: & I only joined the League when they conferred on me the Grand Cross of the Order in express recognition of my founding P. D. In his opinion the Tariff Reform movement, & all involved in its success - which I fear - is completely [making?] up our old political [?] & after a period of Chaos the country will settle down with quite a new country with new parties which will be as little interested in the England of Gladstone & D Israeli [?] & Russell - as we are in the world & politics of the moon .
Published by Five letters from four of them on letterhead of the India Office Whitehall; one from 33 Elgin Crescent Notting Hill. Nine letters from 1913 all from 5 Windsor Road Ealing, 1901
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
The 14 letters total 72pp. The collection is in good condition, lightly aged. Most items docketed and with the Society's stamp. The correspondence relates to Society business, from a strongly Anglo-Indian viewpoint. Letters of 26 May and 2 June 1913 are each 12pp. Long, and concern the relative merits of Indian colonial official Sir William Lee-Warner (1846-1914) and the geographer Sir Thomas Holdich (1843-1929), to be chairman of the Society. In the first he tells Wood that he had previously 'begged' his assistant Menzies to let him know 'that if it was the turn of an Anglo-Indian to be chairman of the Society that Anglo-Indian was Sir W. Lee Warner. Yesterday to my I heard that Sir Thos. Holdich was talked of. Now no one admires Sir T. more than I do. [ ] But he is not of the type of Anglo-Indian to be made our chairman [ ] That Chairman must be of the ruling class of English Indian officials. - A Civilian or a military man, not only of ability & distinction but who has served in the highest administrative offices civil & political [ ] Such men, for instance as Sir Bartle Frere Sir Alfred Lyall Sir Stewart Bayley & Sir W. Lee-Warner Of all these none has more impressed Indian imagination as Sir W. L-W - &B none been better known here except Sir Bartle Frere'. He criticises Holdich for his lack of experience, giving his opinion that 'he wd be as great a failure for the Soc: as Sir Charles Lamb who was a ghastly failure the sickening taste of which it has taken 2 years of Lord Sanderson to clear out of my mouth.' He continues in like tone: 'If anybody is to suffer through the fiasco let it be Sir Thomas & not the Society so far as its Indian interests are concerned. It is a case of Pallas the Untender Hearted to exert herself in our hearts.' On 2 June 1913 he writes to Wood again at length on the matter, claiming to have always opposed overweighting the Council with Anglo-Indians. I think 3 Sir S. Bayley, Sir W. L-W. & I, are quite enough: & chiefly because all of us are of one mind in realising that you are the corner stone, & real head stone also, of the Society, & that its whole success depends on supporting you through thick & thin. With you & Menzies after you in the office as Secretary is all my pleasure in the Society for the present - & hope for the future.' Later in 1913 he writes concerning a letter he has published in the Society's journal, 'on the iniquity of England robbing India of £90,000 a year paid India by China without compensating India a single "dam" (not "damn")'.