GORDON, Charles G. Autograph letter signed ("C. G. Gordon") to Sir Samuel Baker, Bellevue Hotel Brussels, 4 January 1884. 10 pages, 8vo, final integral blank removed, slightly foxed . "THE MAHDI HAS NO BACK BONE & IF NOT MOLESTED IN A RASH WAY, WILL FALL TO PIECES...I AM COMING TO EGYPT" Gordon tries to get Baker and his brother Valentine to raise another Ever Victorious Army and lead a force against the Mahdi. "You & your brother could work wonders for you are well known to all, as just. The Mahdi has no back bone & if not molested in a rash way, will fall to pieces..." Gordon also suggests that Kitchener be sent out and promises to issue a proclamation to the people of Sudan. "I shall return," Gordon continues, "& go to Congo on 5 Feby & will take DV in 1886 the Equator & Behr Gazelle Provinces. The King will pay my loss on leaving HMG as I get nothing from them. He has entre nous spent 400,000£ on the affair, last year he spent 100,000£ I cannot get off. My respects to Ismail. I wish they would put him back. If you can afford it, telegraph this to Tewfik: 'Regretting the state of Soudan...I am coming to Egypt...I will restore the province...I feel convinced that the revolt if unchecked must endanger Lower Egypt, all therefore I ask is funds & freedom to promise Soudan fair reforms in the future. Gordon asks me to ask you this, in the interests of the Soudan people.'"
GORDON, Charles G. Autograph letter signed ("C. G. Gordon") to Sir Samuel Baker, Bellevue Hotel Brussels, 4 January 1884. 10 pages, 8vo, final integral blank removed, slightly foxed . "THE MAHDI HAS NO BACK BONE & IF NOT MOLESTED IN A RASH WAY, WILL FALL TO PIECES...I AM COMING TO EGYPT" Gordon tries to get Baker and his brother Valentine to raise another Ever Victorious Army and lead a force against the Mahdi. "You & your brother could work wonders for you are well known to all, as just. The Mahdi has no back bone & if not molested in a rash way, will fall to pieces..." Gordon also suggests that Kitchener be sent out and promises to issue a proclamation to the people of Sudan. "I shall return," Gordon continues, "& go to Congo on 5 Feby & will take DV in 1886 the Equator & Behr Gazelle Provinces. The King will pay my loss on leaving HMG as I get nothing from them. He has entre nous spent 400,000£ on the affair, last year he spent 100,000£ I cannot get off. My respects to Ismail. I wish they would put him back. If you can afford it, telegraph this to Tewfik: 'Regretting the state of Soudan...I am coming to Egypt...I will restore the province...I feel convinced that the revolt if unchecked must endanger Lower Egypt, all therefore I ask is funds & freedom to promise Soudan fair reforms in the future. Gordon asks me to ask you this, in the interests of the Soudan people.'"
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