Key Information
Reference code
ROBERTSON, WR 4/3/12
Title
Letter from Captain Sir George Arthur (former private secretary to Field Marshal Lord Kitchener) to Robertson, 7 Oct [1916], listing letters between Kitchener and Robertson
Date(s)
- [1916] Oct 7 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
3pp
Scope and content
Letter from Capt Sir George (Compton Archibald) Arthur 3rd Bt, Personal Private Secretary to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, to Maj Cecil Courtenay Lucas, Aide de Camp to Robertson, enclosing a list of private letters between Kitchener and Robertson, which he feels should be kept by the latter instead of forming part of Kitchener's estate (Kitchener had drowned in the sinking of HMS Hampshire, 5 Jun 1916). 3pp.