Documents associated with: Kitchener, Herbert
Record 2 of 5
System Number: 07321
Date: 27 February 1900
Author: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[1]
Place: New York
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler W1309
Document Type: ALS
CABLE ADDRESS:
"WUNDERLICH, NEW YORK"
TELEPHONE:
2815-18TH STREET
E. G. KENNEDY
G. DIETERLEN[2]
[scroll:] H. WUNDERLICH[3] & CO.
H W & CO.
RARE PRINTS
868 B'WAY N- Y-
Feb. 27 1900.
Hello, hello, there my dear friend, still on deck I see, at which I am delighted.
This is to say that I have none of the prints you ask for, but will do my best to borrow them for you, & will let you know. Yes, the "poor dear Britons" are doing quite well, having captured Cronje[4] to-day. The bottom will soon fall out of the Franco-German-Boer alliance. You notice that Roberts[5], Kitchener, Cleary, French, White[6] (!!) & Kelly - Kellnny, the best generals, [p. 2] are all Irish. 'and poor[7] OK doesn't see that this is what they have so prettily called here, Ireland's revenge!! -'
There are less than 200 left of the Dublin fusileers [sic], out of 850. They still fight you see!
I know what you are saying now, so I'll bring over Whistler's portrait of O'K.[8] & have him paint English mutton chop whiskers on it. I suppose I must soon commence on whiskey and soda!
Seriously; "War is hell" and ought to be stopped, though I think I should have been a sodger myself, as I came from a military family. I hope you are well.
Will you kindly present my compliments to the ladies[9] and believe me, always Sincerely Yours,
O'K.
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Notes:
1. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more].
2. G. DIETERLEN
G. Dieterlen, employee at H. Wunderlich and Co., New York.
3. H. WUNDERLICH
Hermann Wunderlich (ca 1839 - d.1892), print dealer [more].
4. Cronje
General Piet Cronje, leader of the Zuid Afrika Republic's army, surrendered to the British army at Paardeberg on 27 February 1900.
5. Roberts [et al]
Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914), British army commander [more]; Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916), Chief of Staff in South Africa from 1900-1902 [more]; General Cleary; John French, cavalry commander during the Boer War; General Sir George White, soldier and military commander; and Leitenant-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny, commander of the 6th Division during the Boer War.
6. White
Underlined three times.
7. and poor ... revenge!! -
Added in pencil by JW.
8. portrait of O'K.
Portrait of E. G. Kennedy (2) (YMSM 404).
9. the ladies
Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more]; and Frances Philip (1824-1917), née Black, JW's mother-in-law [more].