细节
PRINCE EDWARD (1894-1972)
Autograph letter signed ("Edward") to Joe Horne in Northern Rhodesia [an old friend from University], 2 pages, 8°, Headquarters, British Army, 5 January 1915, in original stamped addressed envelope with Royal seal.
Thanking him for his recent letter "telling all about yr. life in Rhodesia which interested me very much."
"Well, who would have thought that a War with Germany was imminent. It has been going on for 5 months now, and we are at a deadlock at present sitting in trenches which extend in an uninterrupted line for about 400 miles. But it hasn't stopped raining for over a month so you can imagine what a state the trenches are in; these men have been standing waist deep in water and mud and it's worse now. They will be flooded out soon without any exaggeration." Prince Edward goes on to discuss the fate of mutual friends from Magdalen College: "I feel poor old John's [Pressé] death terribly for he was a v. gt. friend of mine and had done wonders out here ... I am out here on French's staff; v. interesting but how I long to be serving with the Grenadiers, my regt."
Together with a Magdalen College Christmas card inscribed: ("For Joe from Eddie"), oblong 8°, 1913, in original stamped addressed envelope; and a full length portrait photograph of Edward in Royal Naval College uniform, the image signed ("Edward 1914"), 5½ x 4in., mounted. (3)
Autograph letter signed ("Edward") to Joe Horne in Northern Rhodesia [an old friend from University], 2 pages, 8°, Headquarters, British Army, 5 January 1915, in original stamped addressed envelope with Royal seal.
Thanking him for his recent letter "telling all about yr. life in Rhodesia which interested me very much."
"Well, who would have thought that a War with Germany was imminent. It has been going on for 5 months now, and we are at a deadlock at present sitting in trenches which extend in an uninterrupted line for about 400 miles. But it hasn't stopped raining for over a month so you can imagine what a state the trenches are in; these men have been standing waist deep in water and mud and it's worse now. They will be flooded out soon without any exaggeration." Prince Edward goes on to discuss the fate of mutual friends from Magdalen College: "I feel poor old John's [Pressé] death terribly for he was a v. gt. friend of mine and had done wonders out here ... I am out here on French's staff; v. interesting but how I long to be serving with the Grenadiers, my regt."
Together with a Magdalen College Christmas card inscribed: ("For Joe from Eddie"), oblong 8°, 1913, in original stamped addressed envelope; and a full length portrait photograph of Edward in Royal Naval College uniform, the image signed ("Edward 1914"), 5½ x 4in., mounted. (3)