Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 1/2/26
Title
Copy letters to Hamilton from Winston Churchill, 1898, on topics including Churchill's service in the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan
Date(s)
- 1898 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 2 letters
Scope and content
Photocopies of letters received by Hamilton from Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, comprising undated letter from India regarding Churchill's plans to see active service in Egypt and publication of his The story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans and Co, London, 1898); letter, 16 Sep, with Churchill's account of his part in the battle of Omdurman, Second Sudan Campaign, 2 Sep 1898. 1 file, 2 letters [Both letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)]