BIB_ID
395921
Accession number
MA 13315.17
Creator
Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 1833-1908.
Display Date
"Wed." [1885 January 28].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Dated “Wed.”
Inscribed with the date "28 Jan 85" in pencil in an unidentified hand at upper right hand corner of page 1; date of writing from pencil inscription and supported by internal evidence: January 28 fell on Wednesday in 1885, and the dates of the events described, combined with the known delays in information reaching England from the Sudan during this period make an earlier date unlikely.
Part of a collection of 22 letters to Lord Charles and Lady Beresford from various friends and associates; the letters are described individually (MA 13315.1-22).
Written prior to Lord Hartington's succession as Duke of Devonshire in 1891, and signed with his initial “H”; "Dot" was a nickname employed by Lord Beresford and others for his wife, Lady Beresford.
Lord Hartington served as Secretary of State for War from 1882-1885; Lady Beresford's husband, Lord Charles Beresford, was on the staff of the Gordon Relief Expedition to Khartoum.
Written in purple pencil.
Written on stationery embossed in blind "Devonshire House / Piccadilly W."
Inscribed with the date "28 Jan 85" in pencil in an unidentified hand at upper right hand corner of page 1; date of writing from pencil inscription and supported by internal evidence: January 28 fell on Wednesday in 1885, and the dates of the events described, combined with the known delays in information reaching England from the Sudan during this period make an earlier date unlikely.
Part of a collection of 22 letters to Lord Charles and Lady Beresford from various friends and associates; the letters are described individually (MA 13315.1-22).
Written prior to Lord Hartington's succession as Duke of Devonshire in 1891, and signed with his initial “H”; "Dot" was a nickname employed by Lord Beresford and others for his wife, Lady Beresford.
Lord Hartington served as Secretary of State for War from 1882-1885; Lady Beresford's husband, Lord Charles Beresford, was on the staff of the Gordon Relief Expedition to Khartoum.
Written in purple pencil.
Written on stationery embossed in blind "Devonshire House / Piccadilly W."
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated "28 Jan 85" in pencil at upper right hand corner of page 1.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Updating her on the progress of the relief expedition to Khartoum, including the news that Herbert Stewart, although severely wounded, is safe on the Nile, and that there has been a good deal of fighting but with no officers killed since the 17th of that month (presumably a reference to the Battle of Abu Klea which took place on January 16-18, 1885; Herbert Stewart was wounded at Abu Klea on the morning of January 19).
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