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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 913

Autographs
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
The following group of documents and photographs represent a dedicated collection which took over thirty years to acquire. The different aspects of Lord Kitchener's career are well covered. Each lot is offered with the collector's notes and transcripts. The letters shows the different forms of his signature overhis lifetime.



1878 (11 December ) A.L.S. from Kensington Museum to Corporal Brophy informing him that the Palestine Exploration Fund of a gift of £10.10 "... in recognition of your valuable service to them over the period of 5½ years that you have been employed on the Survey of Palestine" and is signed "H H Kitchener, Lieut R E Com. Survey of Palestine". A very early letter from Kitchener.


Also a first edition of "Lord Kitchener and His Work in Palestine" by Samuel Daiches, 1915, with dedication inside from the author. Photo

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850 – 1916) was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War. Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum".



In 1874, at age 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land, replacing Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake, who had died of malaria. By then an officer in the Royal Engineers, Kitchener joined fellow officer Claude R. Conder, and between 1874 and 1877 they surveyed Palestine, returning to England only briefly in 1875 after an attack by locals at Safed, in Galilee

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