HARTLEY EDMUND: (1847-1919) English Colonel, Victoria Cross winner for his actions during the Basuto Gun War in South Africa on 5th June 1879. A.L.S., Edmund B Hartley, two pages, 8vo, Warwick Square, London, 27th June 1885, to E. Windentt Esq. Hartley forwards his correspondent a portion 'of a letter I received from General Gordon at King Williamstown So. Africa in August 1882', and adds 'As the letter is purely a private one I do not send it to you in toto'. With blank integral leaf featuring a lightly affixed newspaper obituary for Hartley. Together with Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) British Army officer and administrator, known as Chinese Gordon. Dark ink signature ('C. G. Gordon') and five additional lines of holograph text, on a piece removed from the conclusion of a letter, being the original enclosure referred to by Hartley, bearing the pencil date of 6th August 1882 in an unidentified hand. Two small areas of paper loss to the upper two corners of the Gordon fragment, G to
HARTLEY EDMUND: (1847-1919) English Colonel, Victoria Cross winner for his actions during the Basuto Gun War in South Africa on 5th June 1879. A.L.S., Edmund B Hartley, two pages, 8vo, Warwick Square, London, 27th June 1885, to E. Windentt Esq. Hartley forwards his correspondent a portion 'of a letter I received from General Gordon at King Williamstown So. Africa in August 1882', and adds 'As the letter is purely a private one I do not send it to you in toto'. With blank integral leaf featuring a lightly affixed newspaper obituary for Hartley. Together with Charles George Gordon (1833-1885) British Army officer and administrator, known as Chinese Gordon. Dark ink signature ('C. G. Gordon') and five additional lines of holograph text, on a piece removed from the conclusion of a letter, being the original enclosure referred to by Hartley, bearing the pencil date of 6th August 1882 in an unidentified hand. Two small areas of paper loss to the upper two corners of the Gordon fragment, G to
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