Two autograph postcards signed (“C.G.G.”), to E. [or G.] Boulger, the first discussing a follower of the Mahdi, the second headed “History of Arabic MS” (“...I printed MS at Kartoum, for general information with an address to the people, shewing them, that the question was one of the existence of regular govt or of chaos...”) and in a postscript announcing his departure from England [for the Soudan] on 25 January, two pages, 8vo, addresses on verso, guards, Brussels postmarks, 4 and 5 January 1884 Gordon had been planning to go to the Congo on behalf of King Leopold (thus the Belgian postcards), but at the last moment was despatched to the Soudan by the British Government, meeting his death at Khartoum a year later. The recipient of these cards was presumably connected to the D.C. Boulger who was a friend of Gordon´s and published his biography in 1896.
Two autograph postcards signed (“C.G.G.”), to E. [or G.] Boulger, the first discussing a follower of the Mahdi, the second headed “History of Arabic MS” (“...I printed MS at Kartoum, for general information with an address to the people, shewing them, that the question was one of the existence of regular govt or of chaos...”) and in a postscript announcing his departure from England [for the Soudan] on 25 January, two pages, 8vo, addresses on verso, guards, Brussels postmarks, 4 and 5 January 1884 Gordon had been planning to go to the Congo on behalf of King Leopold (thus the Belgian postcards), but at the last moment was despatched to the Soudan by the British Government, meeting his death at Khartoum a year later. The recipient of these cards was presumably connected to the D.C. Boulger who was a friend of Gordon´s and published his biography in 1896.
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