[Charles G. Gordon--family.] A collection of letters and related papers concerning the death of Gordon: i) c.18 letters to Augusta Gordon, sister of C.G. Gordon, including by: Princess Beatrice, thanking her for a wedding present, especially of something "that had belonged to your lamented brother"; Sir John Cowell, Comptroller of the Queen's Household, on Gordon's Bible, which had been given to the Queen ("...The Bible is, I should tell you, to be placed in a beautiful old Enamel & Crystal Casket..."); Hallam Tennyson, sending his father's epitaph on Gordon and informing her of the foundation of "a Gordon camp ... for training poor boys for the Army"; Lord Camperdown ("...You cannot be more indignant against Mr Gladstone than I am with regard to Khartoum..."); Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester, thanking her for "the facsimile of the letter" as a relic of the "greatest hero of the century"; M. Noushi ("...How happy I am & how prosperous to be always remembered by the sister of my late gallant General Gordon Pasha..."), G.G. Bradley, Arthur Waugh, Horace Walker, Ralph Disraeli, Colonel Mahmoud Talaat Bey, and other Egyptian military figures; together with related drafts and fragments; 1880s ii) Two autograph letters signed by Augusta Gordon, one to Allen & Co., refusing permission to publish a book of her brother's work by Hake, the other to "Dear Sir", expressing her approval on a pamphlet on the government's desertion of Gordon, 7 August-26 November 1890 iii) Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, five autograph letters signed, to William Staveley Gordon and his wife, 1896-98; and one other letter to "Gordon" iv) Cardinal Newman. The Dream of Gerontius. Longmans, 1888. C.G. GORDON'S COPY, presented by him to Frank Power, and subsequently given by Power to his sister ("Dearest M. I send you this book which General Gordon has given me. The pencil marking through the book is his. | Frank Power | Khartoum"), with marginal pencil markings v) Other material: photographic portrait of C.G. Gordon by G. Lekegian of Cairo & Co., mounted on card; six photographs of memorials for General Gordon, with captions on the reverse; group of red wax seal impressions of the Gordon family crest; press cuttings and printed ephemera PROVENANCE: Spiro family collection; their sale, part 2, Christie's New York, 26 February 2004, lot 48
[Charles G. Gordon--family.] A collection of letters and related papers concerning the death of Gordon: i) c.18 letters to Augusta Gordon, sister of C.G. Gordon, including by: Princess Beatrice, thanking her for a wedding present, especially of something "that had belonged to your lamented brother"; Sir John Cowell, Comptroller of the Queen's Household, on Gordon's Bible, which had been given to the Queen ("...The Bible is, I should tell you, to be placed in a beautiful old Enamel & Crystal Casket..."); Hallam Tennyson, sending his father's epitaph on Gordon and informing her of the foundation of "a Gordon camp ... for training poor boys for the Army"; Lord Camperdown ("...You cannot be more indignant against Mr Gladstone than I am with regard to Khartoum..."); Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester, thanking her for "the facsimile of the letter" as a relic of the "greatest hero of the century"; M. Noushi ("...How happy I am & how prosperous to be always remembered by the sister of my late gallant General Gordon Pasha..."), G.G. Bradley, Arthur Waugh, Horace Walker, Ralph Disraeli, Colonel Mahmoud Talaat Bey, and other Egyptian military figures; together with related drafts and fragments; 1880s ii) Two autograph letters signed by Augusta Gordon, one to Allen & Co., refusing permission to publish a book of her brother's work by Hake, the other to "Dear Sir", expressing her approval on a pamphlet on the government's desertion of Gordon, 7 August-26 November 1890 iii) Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, five autograph letters signed, to William Staveley Gordon and his wife, 1896-98; and one other letter to "Gordon" iv) Cardinal Newman. The Dream of Gerontius. Longmans, 1888. C.G. GORDON'S COPY, presented by him to Frank Power, and subsequently given by Power to his sister ("Dearest M. I send you this book which General Gordon has given me. The pencil marking through the book is his. | Frank Power | Khartoum"), with marginal pencil markings v) Other material: photographic portrait of C.G. Gordon by G. Lekegian of Cairo & Co., mounted on card; six photographs of memorials for General Gordon, with captions on the reverse; group of red wax seal impressions of the Gordon family crest; press cuttings and printed ephemera PROVENANCE: Spiro family collection; their sale, part 2, Christie's New York, 26 February 2004, lot 48
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