Canada & Germany.- Gardiner (General Sir Henry Lynedoch, KCVO, CB, general in the Royal Artillery, served on the Royal Commission for the Defence of Canada in 1861, son of General Sir Robert Gardiner, equerry to Queen Victoria 1872-96, 1820-97) 62 Autograph Letters to his parents and brother, all but three signed, c. 550pp., folio, 4to & 8vo, Montreal, Gotha, Rotterdam, Amerbach and elsewhere, 1838 - 41 & n.d., extensive correspondence with his family, including: Canada: "The feeling among the [French] Canadians is worse than ever, I hear & it is well known that they drill in the mountains frequently. Ld Durham's return makes the ministers more than ever unpopular with the royalists. It was only the other night that they burnt Lords Melbourne, Glenly & Brougham in effigy after having dragged them through the streets in donkey carts, but as they at the same time burnt Hume & one or two of the rebel chiefs, an attack was expected from the Canadian rebels..."; Europe: [Germany] "We started... for Reinhartsbrunn - Hence into the Thuringer Wald... . We arrived at Fusterherzen... without fatigue, as I had varied my amusement from giving my arm to the young ladies to carrying Master Carl on my back: having seen them in safety at the village, I began to be rather alarmed at the non arrival of the other good people, and accordingly put myself in a regimental double, and trotted back alone four miles to Spiessherz on whose summit stands a hut, which had been agreed on as a rendevous; - having climbed the mountain and entered the hut, I found that the party had been there & had left it half an hour before... on my arrival... found the whole party there... . The ass of a guide, whom Ewald had hired had led them a wrong way...", some letters marked "Copy" in pencil, folds, browned; and a small quantity others including an ALs from Robert Gardiner to his son, v.s., v.d. (qty).
Canada & Germany.- Gardiner (General Sir Henry Lynedoch, KCVO, CB, general in the Royal Artillery, served on the Royal Commission for the Defence of Canada in 1861, son of General Sir Robert Gardiner, equerry to Queen Victoria 1872-96, 1820-97) 62 Autograph Letters to his parents and brother, all but three signed, c. 550pp., folio, 4to & 8vo, Montreal, Gotha, Rotterdam, Amerbach and elsewhere, 1838 - 41 & n.d., extensive correspondence with his family, including: Canada: "The feeling among the [French] Canadians is worse than ever, I hear & it is well known that they drill in the mountains frequently. Ld Durham's return makes the ministers more than ever unpopular with the royalists. It was only the other night that they burnt Lords Melbourne, Glenly & Brougham in effigy after having dragged them through the streets in donkey carts, but as they at the same time burnt Hume & one or two of the rebel chiefs, an attack was expected from the Canadian rebels..."; Europe: [Germany] "We started... for Reinhartsbrunn - Hence into the Thuringer Wald... . We arrived at Fusterherzen... without fatigue, as I had varied my amusement from giving my arm to the young ladies to carrying Master Carl on my back: having seen them in safety at the village, I began to be rather alarmed at the non arrival of the other good people, and accordingly put myself in a regimental double, and trotted back alone four miles to Spiessherz on whose summit stands a hut, which had been agreed on as a rendevous; - having climbed the mountain and entered the hut, I found that the party had been there & had left it half an hour before... on my arrival... found the whole party there... . The ass of a guide, whom Ewald had hired had led them a wrong way...", some letters marked "Copy" in pencil, folds, browned; and a small quantity others including an ALs from Robert Gardiner to his son, v.s., v.d. (qty).
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