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cover THE WARREN EXPEDITION: 1885 (29 Aug.) envelope bearing Cape of Good Hope 2d. brown cancelled by a good strike of "BARKLEY" c.d.s., addressed to Mrs Methuen in Wynberg with arrival c.d.s. and sent from her husband, Col. John Methuen; fine and rare. Photo
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Note: In his memoirs, Churchill wrote about Methuen, the man "who could be relied on to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."