Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to his sister Augusta, written from Cairo, announcing that he is on his way to Khartoum ("...I leave for Suez tomorrow, & thence to Aden and thence across to... Massawah, to Suakin, thence to Kartoum, but if war breaks out, I shall probably have to return to my Regt..."), and, when he has time, promising to tell her "all the most interesting affairs which passed at Cairo", 2 pages, remains of hinge, minor creasing, 8vo, Cairo, 29 March 1878
Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Gordon"), to his sister Augusta, written from Cairo, announcing that he is on his way to Khartoum ("...I leave for Suez tomorrow, & thence to Aden and thence across to... Massawah, to Suakin, thence to Kartoum, but if war breaks out, I shall probably have to return to my Regt..."), and, when he has time, promising to tell her "all the most interesting affairs which passed at Cairo", 2 pages, remains of hinge, minor creasing, 8vo, Cairo, 29 March 1878
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