To include a letter from Rev. George Smith confirming his presence at Rorke's Drift; sometime after the battle correspondence had been struck up over wether or not Smith had actually been at Rorke's Drift, a letter included in this lot from a Leonora Dulckell confirms he was and includes an amusing account of an incident when the Rev. Smith reprimanded a young Private "Don't swear, man" "don't swear at them; shoot them!", together with a letter from Lady Elizabeth Butler to a Mr Ward asking for the loan of Lord William Beresford's uniform that he wore at Ulundi, for her picture of Rorke's Drift, and a large quantity of press and magazine cuttings relating to Rorke's Drift.
To include a letter from Rev. George Smith confirming his presence at Rorke's Drift; sometime after the battle correspondence had been struck up over wether or not Smith had actually been at Rorke's Drift, a letter included in this lot from a Leonora Dulckell confirms he was and includes an amusing account of an incident when the Rev. Smith reprimanded a young Private "Don't swear, man" "don't swear at them; shoot them!", together with a letter from Lady Elizabeth Butler to a Mr Ward asking for the loan of Lord William Beresford's uniform that he wore at Ulundi, for her picture of Rorke's Drift, and a large quantity of press and magazine cuttings relating to Rorke's Drift.
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