NAM.1996-10-100-1

Papers. Principally MS pages containing transcripts of entries in works of reference, passages from books, poems, and editions of letters, and articles in journals and newspapers, 1885-1960. Extracted original articles from journals (1885 and 1933, where dated); newspaper cuttings (including from April 1942 to February 1964); cuttings of illustrations (Khartoum, the Sudan, Gordon and his family). Four MS dramatisations of events in Gordon’s life, by Katharine Halehouse. Two letters of August and December 1924 discussing points of Arabic. Photograph, 20 x 15 cm, of the Gordon Memorial, while at Chatham, with MS note on reverse, nd. Two letters of January and February 1926, from the Hon Superintendent, Ragged School, Gravesend, on links between the school and Gordon, including the possession of six Chinese silk flags which had been presented to him. Letter to Miss Sidebottom of 14 Feb 1927, from F St John Morrow, responding to some errors pointed out by her in an article he had written, and enclosing as a gift an MS letter from Gen Gordon (bearing his signature) to Capt Charles Watson (later Governor of ?), Jerusalem, 20 Jun 1883. MS Gordon family tree (from 1786); some notes on surviving relatives, etc, nd.

2nd China War (1856-1860)

Khartoum, Siege of, 1885 (1st Sudan War 1883-1885)