Item ROBERTSON, WR 8/1/73-74 - Letter from General Sir Edmund Allenby to Robertson, 17 Oct 1917, on subjects including Palestine and relations with the French in the Hejaz region

Two copies of a letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, on the death of Egyptian Sultan Hussein Kamel and the accession of Ahmad Fuad; the progress of Allenby's preparations for an attack on the Turkish defences at Gaza, Palestine; the insistence of the French Attaché that a French officer should accompany Capt Thomas Edward Lawrence in his dealing with the Arabs of the Hedjaz, and Allenby's refusal. 10pp.