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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3080

Autographs
Arthur, Duke of Connaught
1897 (c.) (29 June) A.L.S. on Buckingham Palace notepaper to the Khedive of Egypt, "I have ultimately communicated with the Queen as to your wish to decorate Sir Rennell Rodd, Col. the Hon. W. Carington ..." and concludes, "I have the honour to remain, Your Highness's sincere friend, Arthur". Some aging on one piece of the blank paper.


James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, (1858-1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933. From 1894 to 1902 Rodd worked under the Consul-General of Egypt Lord Cromer. He played an important part in negotiating the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897 with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.

Sir William Henry Peregrine Carington (1845-1914) was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1883. He fought in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 and was awarded a medal for his actions.

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