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Auction archive: Lot number 220

HARVEY-KELLY ARCHIVE RELATING TO THE YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION TO TIBET INCLUDING HIS DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPHS, 1904

Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$12,428 - US$18,642
Price realised:
£10,000
ca. US$12,428
Auction archive: Lot number 220

HARVEY-KELLY ARCHIVE RELATING TO THE YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION TO TIBET INCLUDING HIS DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPHS, 1904

Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$12,428 - US$18,642
Price realised:
£10,000
ca. US$12,428
Beschreibung:

Tibet--Harvey-Kelly, Harvey St. George Hume ARCHIVE RELATING TO HIS SERVICE IN THE YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION TO TIBET OF 1904, COMPRISING: i) Tibet Diary, recording his service as a Lieutenant attached to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, with regular detailed entries and 14 sketches (including costumes and sketch maps), describing his advance through the Chumbi Valley and into Tibet, detailing skirmishes as they penetrated further into Tibetan territory, their meeting with the Tongsla Penlop, a friendly Bhutanese ruler (5 June, "...He seems an amiable old bird &, writing of birds, he has an imitation peacock head on his hat, which also has a border of skulls embroidered..."), the fighting around the key fort of Gyantse (27 June, "...The larger force had a very good show attacked the monastery and village on the hill-top & side about 3 miles west, blew up the place, killed about 400 & many llamas [sic] and had very few casualties..."), two weeks stationed in Gyantse (29 June, "... I am sharing Gurdon's room - The chief temple of the place - Its an extraordinary room all four sides one mass of shelves full of presumably Tibetan bibles and in the middle of one side a more than life size Buddha covered with brass not gold worse luck..."), a period characterised by intermittent fighting and extensive looting (8 July, "...Ransacked the old Buddha in my room today - got a cold chisel & hammer and investigated his inside as Davis said he was full of turquoise. He was certainly full of rubbish and we found 2 or 3 odds & ends - little brass Buddhas, caskets & 2 coins, one with a bit of gold on it..."), departing the fort on 14 July and reporting on 1 August that the company is "Within sight of fort of Lhasa" with hostilities by then concluded, the following six weeks spent encamped outside the city during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Lhasa with occasional incidents (19 August, "...Yesterday morning a Lama hovering round the Camp suddenly drew a sword & went for Cooke Young & Kelly...") as well as games of bridge and visits to the gymkhana, leaving Lhasa on 23 September and returning to Sikkim, c.75 pages; with, written from the reverse, an account of the taking of the village of Naini (4 pages) and an account of a dawn attack during the campaign (6 pages), further sketches including of Tibetan costume and Lhasa (9 pages), and captions for Indian photographs (only two photographs now present) including of Boer prisoners of war (15 pages), plus blanks, in pencil and purple crayon in a small 4to lined exercise book (205 x 165mm), 2 June to 23 October 1904, original blue cloth, worn, upper cover crudely repaired with tape, first page of text somewhat faded but still legible ii) Photographs: Tibetan album and 3 other albums of photographs of Harvey-Kelly's military service and family photographs iii) Report "On L[ines] of C[ommunication] in N.W. Persia", corrected typescript, 11 pages, [?1921]; series of c.24 illustrated autograph letters signed ("Daddy") by Harvey-Kelly to his sons describing in humorous terms his work in the Indian Army and as a magistrate, Persia and India, 1920s; eight farewell addresses, Masonic certificates, and similar documents, chiefly Indian, 1916-35 (one printed on silk); "Myauk", The Indian Army ABC. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., n.d., oblong 8vo, original wrappers; set of miniature medals

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Tibet--Harvey-Kelly, Harvey St. George Hume ARCHIVE RELATING TO HIS SERVICE IN THE YOUNGHUSBAND EXPEDITION TO TIBET OF 1904, COMPRISING: i) Tibet Diary, recording his service as a Lieutenant attached to the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, with regular detailed entries and 14 sketches (including costumes and sketch maps), describing his advance through the Chumbi Valley and into Tibet, detailing skirmishes as they penetrated further into Tibetan territory, their meeting with the Tongsla Penlop, a friendly Bhutanese ruler (5 June, "...He seems an amiable old bird &, writing of birds, he has an imitation peacock head on his hat, which also has a border of skulls embroidered..."), the fighting around the key fort of Gyantse (27 June, "...The larger force had a very good show attacked the monastery and village on the hill-top & side about 3 miles west, blew up the place, killed about 400 & many llamas [sic] and had very few casualties..."), two weeks stationed in Gyantse (29 June, "... I am sharing Gurdon's room - The chief temple of the place - Its an extraordinary room all four sides one mass of shelves full of presumably Tibetan bibles and in the middle of one side a more than life size Buddha covered with brass not gold worse luck..."), a period characterised by intermittent fighting and extensive looting (8 July, "...Ransacked the old Buddha in my room today - got a cold chisel & hammer and investigated his inside as Davis said he was full of turquoise. He was certainly full of rubbish and we found 2 or 3 odds & ends - little brass Buddhas, caskets & 2 coins, one with a bit of gold on it..."), departing the fort on 14 July and reporting on 1 August that the company is "Within sight of fort of Lhasa" with hostilities by then concluded, the following six weeks spent encamped outside the city during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Lhasa with occasional incidents (19 August, "...Yesterday morning a Lama hovering round the Camp suddenly drew a sword & went for Cooke Young & Kelly...") as well as games of bridge and visits to the gymkhana, leaving Lhasa on 23 September and returning to Sikkim, c.75 pages; with, written from the reverse, an account of the taking of the village of Naini (4 pages) and an account of a dawn attack during the campaign (6 pages), further sketches including of Tibetan costume and Lhasa (9 pages), and captions for Indian photographs (only two photographs now present) including of Boer prisoners of war (15 pages), plus blanks, in pencil and purple crayon in a small 4to lined exercise book (205 x 165mm), 2 June to 23 October 1904, original blue cloth, worn, upper cover crudely repaired with tape, first page of text somewhat faded but still legible ii) Photographs: Tibetan album and 3 other albums of photographs of Harvey-Kelly's military service and family photographs iii) Report "On L[ines] of C[ommunication] in N.W. Persia", corrected typescript, 11 pages, [?1921]; series of c.24 illustrated autograph letters signed ("Daddy") by Harvey-Kelly to his sons describing in humorous terms his work in the Indian Army and as a magistrate, Persia and India, 1920s; eight farewell addresses, Masonic certificates, and similar documents, chiefly Indian, 1916-35 (one printed on silk); "Myauk", The Indian Army ABC. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., n.d., oblong 8vo, original wrappers; set of miniature medals

Auction archive: Lot number 220
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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