MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES G. "CHINESE" GORDON - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/06/1874 - HFSID 251813
Price: $2,000.00
CHARLES G. "CHINESE" GORDON
"Chinese Gordon" responds to an invitation.
Black-bordered ALS: "C.G. Gordon", 1p, 5¼x8. 21 Cecil Street, Strand, 1874 January
6. To Mr. Landisson. In full: "I am truly sorry that I am obliged to go to South'ton on
Saturday, while tomorrow I have to go to Bedford and shall not be back till late at night:
if I had not already made these arrangements, I should have been only too happy to have
accepted your very kind invitation." After distinguishing himself at Sebastopol in the Crimean
War, the British soldier took part in the 1860 capture of Peking and became Commander of
the "Ever Victorious Army", a Chinese force that suppressed the Taiping rebellion
(1863-1864), earning the nickname "Chinese Gordon". Shortly after this letter was written
from England, Gordon was employed by Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, in opening up the
equatorial provinces of Africa (1874-1876). He was killed in the fall of Khartoum in 1885.
Nicked top edge, tattered lower edge, lightly creased. Vertical fold just touches the "C" in
signature.
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