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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 11

(x) The Major David Underwood Collection of collection of Royal Visits and Tours to India, 1876-1912
The Royal visit to India 1905-06
The Prince of Wales
1906 (13 Jan.) typed speech given in Rangoon, Burma, signed "George P", given to John Short.

"The Princess of Wales and myself are most grateful to you for the hearty welcome you have given to us in your great and growing City. In your address you have struck the note which must predominate all others in the minds of those who visit India and Burma for the first time. It is a source of never-ending wonder and satisfaction to me to notice the extraordinary variety of races, religions and languages which are so harmoniously blended in the large centres of the Indian Empire. This harmony is due to the wise policy of tolerance for all creeds and of equal justice for all races, and is the basis and the secret of the marvellous administration of which we in England are so proud, and for which you all those who are working for this country, whether as officials or non-officials, British Orientals, are entitled to all praise ....

The heartiness of your welcome; your beautiful decorations which point to kindly labour and infinite pains; and the cheery faces which greet us on our arrival, all go to confirm us in our previous ideas of Burma and its peoples. May you long retain your reputation for genial content and happy life."

An extraordinary and poignant document. Folded but fine

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