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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 34474-34483 Language English Name Gordon, Charles George, army officer, 1833-1885

1. Add MS 34474

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Vol. I. (ff. 116). 10-23 Sept. The label on the wrapper is inscribed as follows: "Chief of Staff, Soudan Expeditionary Force. For Lt.-Colonel Stewart, C.M.G. (if with army), if not, for General Lord Wolseley, G.C.B., etc. Contains no secrets, as far as I am concerned. Official parts, those not s...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sep 1884-23 Sep 1884
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1 item

2. Add MS 34474-34479

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JOURNALS of Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., during the siege of Kartoum, from 10 Sept. (the day on which Col. Stewart and Frank Power left Kartoum) to 14 Dec. 1884. Holograph. Six volumes. Paper. Folio. Each volume except the last was wrapped in a linen handkerchief, having a paper label inscribed by Gordon. These wrappers are now preserved in a separate case. The first of the inscriptions is quoted below, in the description of Vol. l., and the rest are similar. With appendices to...
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Kartoum, the Soudan: Gen. Gordon's journal at: 1884. Major-Gen. Charles George Gordon, CB: Journal at Kartoum: 1884.: Autogr.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sep 1884-14 Dec 1884
Extent:
6 items

3. Add MS 34477

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Vol. IV. (ff. 62). 12-20 Oct. The Appendix (ff. 34-62) contains letters to Gordon from Slatin Bey, and other papers, including (f. 52) a printed report of " The Insurrection of the False Prophet," compiled in the War Office and dated 23 Nov. 1883 (Journals, pp. 447-510). includes: ff. 34, 35 A...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
12 Oct 1884-20 Oct 1884
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1 item

4. Add MS 34478

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Vol. V. (ff. 115). 21 Oct.-4 Nov. The Appendix (ff. 83- 115) contains letters to Gordon from Saleh Bey, Governor at Galabat, from the Greek Consul at Adowa in Abyssinia, from Slatin Bey and others, including (f. 99) one from the Mahdi, 22 Oct. 1884, sealed; as well as the Malidi's manifesto (f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
21 Oct 1884-4 Nov 1884
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1 item

5. Add MS 34479

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Vol. VI. (ff. 133). 5 Nov.-14 Dec. The concluding words are: " NOW MARK THIS. If Expeditionary Force (and I ask for no more than 200 men) does not come in ten days, the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good-bye. C. G. Gordon." With a postscript: " You send me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
5 Nov 1884-14 Dec 1884
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1 item

6. Add MS 34480

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ADDRESS from British and other merchants at Shanghai to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles George Gordon, expressing their admiration of his conduct (in suppressing the Taiping rebellion); 24 Nov. 1864. With the signatures of the merchants. Vellum; ff. 2. Large Quarto. Shanghae, China: Address from the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1864
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1 item

7. Add MS 34481 A-B

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VOTES OF THANKS by the House of Lords and House of Commons to General [Garnet Joseph Wolseley,] Lord Wolseley, G.C.B., and to all the officers and men engaged in the Soudan expeditions of 1884-5, with an expression of regret for the death of Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., and of others who fell in those campaigns; 12 Aug. 1885. Printed. Vellum. Large Quarto.
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England; Parliament: Vote of thanks to the officers engaged in the Soudan expedition: 1885.: Printed. Field-Marshal Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley: Vote of' thanks to: 1885. Major-Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, K C B: Vote of regret for the death of: 1885. Lieutenant-General Sir Fre...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1885
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2 items

8. Add MS 34482

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ADDRESS to Miss Mary Augusta Gordon, of condolence on the death of her brother, Major-General Charles George Gordon, C.B., from "the Princesses of Great Britain and Ireland, the Peeresses of the Realm, and the Wives of Bishops and of Members of the House of Commons, as representing the Women of ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
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1 item

9. Add MS 34483

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1. THREE LETTERS from Queen Victoria to Miss Mary Augusta Gordon, expressing sympathy with her on the death of her brother General Gordon, and thanking her for a copy of his Journals; Osborne, 17 Feb., 16 Mar., Windsor Castle, 11 July, 1885. Holograph ff. 2, 7, 10. 2. Two notes, for ten and fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1884-11 Jul 1885
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1 item