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Auction: 4007 - Sudan & Virgin Islands - The Wm. Frazer Exhibition Collection
Lot: 5

SUDAN Early and Historical Letters 1879 (14 Apr.) five page a.l.s. from General Gordon at Shaka Darfur to Colonel Graham, the contents are about slave traders and include "We continue nearly daily to capture Slave caravans", "You have little idea of what a difficult affair this slave suppression has been" — "I get sometimes mad with rage and terrible scenes pass between me and the slave dealers...for I have a brutal cruel instinct in me which sometimes comes out" Estimate £ 200-250

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