South Africa & Africa.- Edwards (T.A., traveller, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, fl. 1911) Travel Journal to South Africa & Africa, autograph manuscript, c. 200pp., passport made out to Helena Yonge loosely inserted, original cloth-backed printed boards, corners and edges rubbed, folio, 1911 § Morgan (Brig.-Gen. Sir Hill Godfrey, KBE, soldier, Army Service Corps, 1862-1923) Album of letters, ephemera and newspaper cuttings relating to Morgan's service in the Boer War and the Mahdist wars in Egypt and Sudan, including: letter signed by Kitchener, several copies of letters by Sir Redvers Buller, cut signature of Lord Milner, manuscript Field Officer note with pen and ink illustrations, 1 watercolour, photograph of his daughter's wedding, together c. 140pp., some loosely inserted, many laid down, some affected by some damp, original cloth worn and defective, v.s., v.d. in a 4to album, 1875-1913. ⁂ The diary of a travelling salesman from England to South Africa. Edwards travelled on RMS Walmer Castle and noted that Marie Lloyd (1870-1922), music-hall entertainer ("Col. Wythe CB rather amusing when no one is about he sits with Marie Lloyd in a corner - during the day he entertains Miss Gladstone"), was on board with her lover and future husband, Bernard Dillon (c.1888-1941), the jockey who rode Lemberg to Derby victory in 1910.On board they played games, had a fancy dress ball, and "noticed phosphoresence on the wake". Edwards lands in Cape Town (Table Mountain) and from there travels to Bloemfontein, "Miss Ada Reeve is staying here - much more ladylike than Marie Lloyd", Johannesburg, "Holdcroft... drove me all round Parktown to the zoo", and visits the theatre, Benoni (production of loaves for the mines), on SS German to Mossel Bay, East London, Durban, Pretoria, Salisbury, Umtali, SS Admiral to Dar es Salaam, Mombassa, Nairobi ("Indian Bazaar... the white people held a meeting recently suggested to move the plague they would buy out the bazaar - The Indians (who were there first) promptly responded by offering to buy out the whites", Kisumu, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Naples Bay, Corsica etc.
South Africa & Africa.- Edwards (T.A., traveller, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, fl. 1911) Travel Journal to South Africa & Africa, autograph manuscript, c. 200pp., passport made out to Helena Yonge loosely inserted, original cloth-backed printed boards, corners and edges rubbed, folio, 1911 § Morgan (Brig.-Gen. Sir Hill Godfrey, KBE, soldier, Army Service Corps, 1862-1923) Album of letters, ephemera and newspaper cuttings relating to Morgan's service in the Boer War and the Mahdist wars in Egypt and Sudan, including: letter signed by Kitchener, several copies of letters by Sir Redvers Buller, cut signature of Lord Milner, manuscript Field Officer note with pen and ink illustrations, 1 watercolour, photograph of his daughter's wedding, together c. 140pp., some loosely inserted, many laid down, some affected by some damp, original cloth worn and defective, v.s., v.d. in a 4to album, 1875-1913. ⁂ The diary of a travelling salesman from England to South Africa. Edwards travelled on RMS Walmer Castle and noted that Marie Lloyd (1870-1922), music-hall entertainer ("Col. Wythe CB rather amusing when no one is about he sits with Marie Lloyd in a corner - during the day he entertains Miss Gladstone"), was on board with her lover and future husband, Bernard Dillon (c.1888-1941), the jockey who rode Lemberg to Derby victory in 1910.On board they played games, had a fancy dress ball, and "noticed phosphoresence on the wake". Edwards lands in Cape Town (Table Mountain) and from there travels to Bloemfontein, "Miss Ada Reeve is staying here - much more ladylike than Marie Lloyd", Johannesburg, "Holdcroft... drove me all round Parktown to the zoo", and visits the theatre, Benoni (production of loaves for the mines), on SS German to Mossel Bay, East London, Durban, Pretoria, Salisbury, Umtali, SS Admiral to Dar es Salaam, Mombassa, Nairobi ("Indian Bazaar... the white people held a meeting recently suggested to move the plague they would buy out the bazaar - The Indians (who were there first) promptly responded by offering to buy out the whites", Kisumu, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Naples Bay, Corsica etc.
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