WINGATE Sir Reginald - ALS 1918 to Sir Evelyn Wood Autograph Type_Documents and Letters

WINGATE Sir Reginald - ALS 1918 to Sir Evelyn Wood Autograph Type_Documents and LettersSir Reginald WINGATE (1861 1953) Autograph Letter Signed (R Wingate) to My dear & beloved old Chief [Sir Evelyn Wood], thanking him for his affectionate sympathy in our great sorrow. 4 pages 8vo, The Residency, Cairo, 12 May 1918. Your affectionate sympathy in our great sorrow is most consoling. How truly I agree with you that there is no death & that what has happened is merely transition. I believe that he & all those brave men who have fallen are

The Foreign Office tells me that people with even the Christian name of “Lawrence” used to be arrested at the frontier

”Monteux spent five years as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

towards the better maintenance of such Super annuated and Disabled Officers & Men as shall be provided for therein

was introduced

responding to his pamphlet Byron and the Abbey

Broad Town Farmhouse

Nansen adds that [trans:] “I cannot for the moment give any other address than “Lysaker Norway” as I do not know when I travel

who saw French rule as a liberating influence

Admiral Warren’s reference to “mismanagement” of military expeditions in Spain and “my old Portuguese friends being abandoned” is intriguing and might possibly refer to the controversial Convention of Cintra of 1808

Edmonde Charles-Roux

We all talked over the earthquake for an hour or so

best wishes from my wife and myself