Beschreibung:

1. Collection includes: (1) Henry Kemble (1848-1907) Brit. Actor, 1892 AQs “Let me have men about me that are fat sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’rights. Julius Caesar ” w/ Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Hereditary Actor.” (2) Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale (1854-1925) Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria. ALS re Lord Salisbury, Pena and Sandhurst in Bombay, etc. w/ 1881 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Mufti.” (3) General Sir William Francis Butler GCB, PC (1838–1910) British Army officer, writer, and adventurer. Sgd cacheted Envelope, w/ Vanity Fair chromolithograph. “A Radical General.” (4) Field Marshall Sir Frederick Paul Haines GCB GCSI CIE (1819–1909) Fought in First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars, Crimean War, Indian Rebellion, Quartermaster-General to the Forces in the U.K. Commander-in-Chief in India. Sig. from Letter Closing, w/ 1876 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Commander-in-Chief-in-India.” (5) Valentine Baker (aka “Baker Pasha”) (1827-87) Col. dismissed from Brit. Army for assault on a woman, he then became an Ottoman General and head of Police in Egypt. 2 pg. ALS w/ 1878 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Baker Pasha.” (6) H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.C. (1850-1942) son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He served as the Governor General of Canada. Jumbo portrait supplement to the graphic, April 15, 1899. (7) Frederick G. Burnaby (1842-85) Colonel, Army intelligence officer, Adventurer, Balloonist. Author, 19th Century James Bond. Killed in Action in attempt to relieve Khartoum. 1873 ALS w/ 1876 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Fred.” (8) Lt. General R. G. Broadwood (1862-1917) Commander of Brit. Troops in South China. Closing sig. in pencil as Major Genl. w/ 1903 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Natal.” (9) Sir Derek Keppel GCVO KCB CMG CIE VD (1863–1944) Master of the Household for King George V. Sgd Card w/ 1898 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Derek.” (10) Field Marshall Francis W. Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell GCB GCMG PC (1841 –1925) ADC to the C-i-C, South Africa. In 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. Later he was C-i-C of the Egyptian Army. Governor of Malta, C-i-C Ireland. Closing signature, w/ 1889 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “General Sir Francis Grenfell K.C.B.” (11) Major General Sir Henry P. Ewart, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (1838–1928) In Anglo-Egyptian War led Moonlight Charge of the Household Cavalry at Kassassin in 1882. Crown Equerry to Queen Victoria, and Edward VII (took part in his coronation) Sgd card dated Jan. 27, 1902, w/ 1881 Vanity Fair chromolithograph “Cropy” (12) Major General Sir Geoffrey Barton, KCVO, CB, CMG, KStJ (1844–1922) Served in Ireland, Hong Kong and India, but mostly African. Commander 6th Brigade of the South Natal Field Force in Second Boer War, taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith and the Relief of Mafeking. Sgd letter closing “G. Butler, Major General, Comdg. Fusilier Brigade, South Africa” w/ photogravure print “Major-General G. Barton, C.B. Commanding the Sixth Infantry Brigade.” (13) Lieutenant General Sir Edward Cecil Bethune, KCB, CVO (1855–1930) Led Bethune's Mounted Infantry in the Second Boer War and directed the Territorials in WW1. ALS, Thanking hosts on behalf of himself and staff of “terriers” for his stay. w/ photo print “Lt. Colonel E. C. Bethune” Commanding Bethune’s mounted Infantry. (14) General Sir James Hope Grant GCB (1808–75), Served in the First Anglo-Chinese War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Second Anglo-Chinese War. Closing signature from April 30, 1879 letter. w/ March 1875 portrait from the Illustrated London News (issued upon his death) (15) General Sir Bindon Blood, GCB, GCVO (1842–1940) Served in Egypt, Afghanistan, India, and South Africa. Chief Royal Engineer. Winston Churchill served under him and dedicated to him his book “The Story of the Malakand Field Force” (1898). 1908 ALS Declines to write a book on the North West Frontier because a thorny subject and he kept no notes, etc.