Lot Essay
The recipient was probably Brigadier General Edmund John Phipps Hornby, V.C.,C.B.,C.M.G.
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941)
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Baden-Powell, to Phipps Hornby, dated R.M.S. Eskimo, 6 August 1911, accepting an invitation to visit a Scout bazaar in October, but expressing the difficulty: "As a rule it is impossible for me to devote a whole day to one troop, I only visit counties or districts -- otherwise I should never get through."
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Baden-Powell, to Phipps Hornby, dated R.M.S. Eskimo, 6 August 1911, accepting an invitation to visit a Scout bazaar in October, but expressing the difficulty: "As a rule it is impossible for me to devote a whole day to one troop, I only visit counties or districts -- otherwise I should never get through."