Lord Roberts: South African Telegrams, private, secret and confidential, December 1899 and January, February, March and April 1900
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Accession Number
NAM.1971-01-23-182-1
Description
Ms and ts copies of 20 telegrams send and received by Lord Roberts, December 1899 - April 1900, including with Lord Lansdowne, Queen Victoria, and General Brackenbury, discussing the supply of guns in South Africa, the strength of Boer forces, the possible appointment of Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief in India, kindness shown by the Queen to Lady Roberts, and leniency of the censor towards Winston Churchill as a war correspondent. Telegrams 1 - 19.
Campaigns
Boer War (1899-1902)
People
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