Postcard from Poultney Bigelow, off the banks of Newfoundland, to Major John Moore Gawne, 1900 June 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
419188
Accession number: 
MA 14126
Author: 
Bigelow, Poultney, 1855-1954, sender.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description: 
1 item (1 page) ; 9.5 x 13.9 cm
Notes: 

Date of writing from postmark.
Postmarked, with typed address: Major Gawne. The King's Own. / Junior United Service Club. / London.; with second and third lines of the address struck out, and "Wickham / Fareham / Hamps(?)" added in pen.
Possibly addressed to Major John Moore Gawne (1854-1900), of the King's Own Royal Regiment, who served in the Zulu War, India, Egypt, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa during the Anglo Boer War.
Wriiten on an illustrated ship's postcard from the Norddeutscher Lloyd company, Bremen, with a chromolithographic image of the SS Barbarossa.

Summary: 

Sending greetings "from off the Banks of Newfoundland", and wishing him good luck.

Provenance: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.