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(Untitled), 20 Mar [1898]

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152B/147-148

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (Peshawar, 4th Hussars, India) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he comments on his appointment as orderly officer to Sir William Lockhart; discusses his duties; comments on a recent "skirmish"; describes Peshawar and its climate; recommends that Jack should write down his impressions of India; comments on a virulent plague of which 400 people a day in Bombay have been dying; and describes Colonel [John] Broadbent as a "stupid old man - but amiable". Signed manuscript.

Dates

  • Creation: 20 Mar [1898]

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Winston Churchill

Extent

2 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Bibliography

Published: Winston S Churchill : Companion Volume I, Part 2, pp 891-3

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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