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Major J B Keenan, Royal Artillery, Camp Commandant, Land Forces Hong Kong [C A A Nicol (1921-2012), Special Branch, Malayan UniBiblio.com

Hong Kong; natural disaster Typed Letter Signed cover for instructions etc 3 pp "J. B. Keenan" to C. A. A. Nicol enclosing 'our instructions in the event of a civil disturbance or natural disaster eg Typhoon' map and 'warning signals'.

23528Letter from Camp Office Headquarters Land Forces Hong Kong British Forces Post Office 1; 18 October 1973. Totalling 4pp. sm.fol. Very good on lightly-aged paper. The letter 1p. 8vo is a circular and in it Keenan writes: 'Do not be alarmed at the sudden appearance of these instructions. Rather accept them as a fact that some one has your interests at heart'. The instructions 2pp. 8vo are headed 'APPX 3 TO ANNEX D CAMP HOLF SOP NO 2 INSTRUCTIONS TO FAMILIES'. Divided into 13 sections under the headings: Introduction; Wardens; Precautions; Children; Shopping; Special Warning Procedure; Leave; Finally. The map and warning signals 1p. 8vo are printed with 'TROPICAL CYCLONE PLOTTING MAP' above in red and 'HONG KONG'S TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING SIGNALS' below in black. From the private papers of C. A. A. Nicol 1921-2012 OBE CPM AMN who was a 'Member of a joint FCO/MOD department in Hong Kong' between 1970 and 1975. Nicol joined the Malayan Union Police Force in 1950 and served in the Royal Malaysian Police between 1957 and 1967 'to assist in promoting and consolidating the successful transition to full independence. During this period the Special Branch played a vital role in maintaining peace and security in the country.' From the private papers of C. A. A. Nicol who was a 'Member of a joint FCO/MOD department in Hong Kong' between 1970 and 1975. Nicol joined the Malayan Union Police Force in 1950 and served in the Royal Malaysian Police between 1957 and 1967 'to assist in promoting and consolidating the successful transition to full independence. During this period the Special Branch played a vital role in maintaining peace and security in the country.' Throughout his career Nicol was involved in anti-Communist activities. Letter from Camp Office, Headquarters, Land Forces Hong Kong, British Forces Post Office 1; 18 October 1973. unknown

Jones, Charles C Jr (Late Lieut Colonel of Artillery, CSA) C S ABiblio.com

Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery During The Confederate Struggle for Independence

186732900Albany New York: Joel Munsell 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 1 viii 9-240 pages. Illustrated with 3 maps. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. This copy has been restored and in fair condition only. Original cloth spine laid back down onto newer cloth. Cream paper end sheets added front and in back covering the priginal floral end sheets. The original front blank end sheet with the previous owner inscription is vertically split on the paper and detached. Cracks in the gutter with some pages starting to loosen. Text block mostly secure Several upper page corner tips are chipped. A bit of light soil in the gutters of a few pages. The folding map "Sketch of the Battlefield of Ocean Pond 1864" is complete but is split at the folds with closed tears to the brittle paper fair only. Fair condition only. An association copy. Signature of "W. J. Hord" located on the front detached blank end sheet. A label on the front paste down reads - "Medical Director Wm. T. Hord U.S. Naval Asylum Philadelphia Pa." Beneath his signature is a note - "see page 150." There is also a later photograph portrait of William Taliaferro Hord removed from some other book and placed inside. On pages 150-154 is correspondence from Jno. F. Wheaton to the author Colonel Charles C. Jones Jr. titled "Head Quarters Chatham Artillery Advanced Lines James Island July 20th 1863." Wheaton summarized the action that took place on July 16 17 at Secessionville regarding an attack on Union gunboats. One of the gunboats was named "The Pawnee". William Hord the previous owner was on the Pawnee and writes in the right margin on page 151: "The "Pawnee" was struck fifty odd times but only our men were killed & about a dozen wounded - W T Hord." There is another old ink note which appears to be written in another hand stating - "Medical Director Wm. T. Hord participated in this engagement." No other notes names or written marks in the book. Howes J 197; Nevins I p.115; In Tall Cotton. An extract taken from Find A Grave dot com: Biography of William Taliaferro Hord authored by his son Reverend Arnold Harris Hord 1913 William Taliaferro Hord to whom this biography is dedicated was born March 31832. He was the son of Judge Francis Triplett Hord 1797-1869 the grandson of Captain Elias Hord 1773-1821 an officer in the War of 1812 the great grandson of Jesse Hord 1749-1814 and the great great grandfather of Thomas Hord I 1701-1766. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853: entered the United States Navy as Assistant Surgeon in 1854: went to the Mediterranean and served on the frigate "Saranac" visiting Smyrna Constantinople and the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He was promoted to Past Assistant Surgeon April 1859 and was attached to various vessels until the Civil War when he was order home from the Pacific Squadron and commissioned as Surgeon in August of 1861. He was a Volunteer Aide on the staff of General William Nelson from the battle of Pittsburg Landing to the evacuation of the Corinth Mississippi by General Beauregard. He served also on the steam sloop "Pawnee" of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and participated in several engagements while attached to this vessel. During the year 1863 the "Pawnee" was severely damaged by an explosion of a torpedo. He was detached from the "Pawnee" and ordered to the "Wabash" August 101863 and while on this vessel participated in all operations against Charleston under General Gilmore and Admirals Dupont and Dahlgren. On August 31 1864 he was placed in command of the Medical Headquarters of Mississippi fleet at Mound City Illinois. On November 8 1865 he was ordered to the "U.S.S. Monongahela" and was wrecked November 181867 in the famous earthquake and tidal wave at Santa Croix West Indies the "Monongahela" being almost entirely destroyed. Joel Munsell hardcover

Americana Books ABAA · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €

Ernie Wilmott [J L H Batt [Jack Lynden Batt] (b1922), of 155th Battery, 172nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery]: b 1Biblio.com

Typescript titled 'The Last Month' signed 'Ernie Wilmott' describing the author's experiences during the last days of World War Two at Gaschwitz POW camp near Leipzig. With covering ALS from J. L. H. Batt 'Jack' and TLS to Batt from Charles

12219Without place and date 1960s. The account describes events in April and May 1945. 13pp. foolscap 8vo. Paginated 1 to 13 and signed at the end 'Ernie Wilmott'. On seven leaves stapled into grey covers with the title 'The Last Month' typed on the front cover. In good condition in worn wraps. The account commences: 'There had been gun fire from the west and the south for the last three days. Friday the 13th April 1945 the usual officials did not come to fetch the men but a little later than usual the Gaschwyz sic column was called so we assembled and left for work about 20 of us. There was a lot of activity in the station yard German military vehicles were coming and going and a contingent of unarmed Russian fatigue men were on parade.' A typically vivid passage reads: 'In the morning of the 24th April I heard chaps reporting prisoners passing through and our guards not interfering a lot of Indians were going through without any guards. Chaps with kit got up early because of being cold. I got up after seven and went outside and saw the Indians going through. A column of Russian prisoners appeared with guards and were halted just outside. The German guards were standing about in groups talking to each other and taking no notice of the prisoners some of whom were already making off. A man got up on a cart and addressed us he said he couldn't advise us to go he couldn't advise us to stay the German commandant had said that if we stayed he would do his best to obtain food for us there was a horse dying in the next village and he had the first refusal of it if it expired and we should have it.' The account ends on Wilmott's return: 'At London I bid my comrades of the last 2 years goodbye and got on a train at Paddington. It was a noisy journey ex P.O.W.'s one side of the compartment civilians the other we all talked at once. At Bristol I had to catch a bus home and suddenly realised I had to pay the fare it was more than 3 years since I had paid a fare anywhere.' The covering Autograph Letter Signed by Batt is signed 'Jack' on letterhead of 1 Churstonville Court 1 Overbury Avenue Beckenham Kent. 1p. 4to. Undated and with recipient's name not given. 'The writer Ernie Willmott sic spoke 4 Languages and was learning Russian whilst POW in Germany. As he spoke German he was chosen as Camp Leader of our working Camp at Gaschwitz-Leipzig. Our Common path of experience starts at Campo 53 Page 69 - from there we were together unitl the war ended or shared similar experiences.' In a postscript he adds that Wilmott 'was not in Campo 66 at Capua but in hospital at Caserta'. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed to Batt from 'Charles'. On letterhead of 99 South Eden Park Road Beckenham Kent. 21 June 1974. 1p. 8vo. The 'article on Sidi Nsir' brings back 'many memories' and he is enclosing 'The Story of 46 Division'. Without place and date (1960s?). The account describes events in April and May 1945. paperback

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni300,00 £GB≈ 342,54 €

Sergeant Gilbert Henderson Bates [ Sergeant Bates; Sergeant Gilbert H Bates ] (1836-1917), 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery [ EdwarBiblio.com

'Sergeant Bates' American Civil War Union soldier who walked across the American South and then England with the Union flag. Autograph Letter Signed 'Gilbert H Bates Sergeant Bates' to Edward Draper apologising for missing a visit.

16769On letterhead of the Langham Hotel Portland Place London England. 'Dec 3d. 1872 5 PM'. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition aged and creased with traces of a grey paper mount on the reverse of the second leaf which also has a closed tear unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Addressing his letter to 'Mr Edwin sic Draper Vincent Square Westminster' he apologises profusely for missing an appointment: 'Before leaving the theatre Saturday evening last I made a memorandum of the hour appointed to call at your residence to day.' At the time of the writing of the letter 5p.m. he has 'just been looking for your card and place of residence and find that I should have called at 3 1/2 PM instead of 5 1/2 as I had got it in my head'. He hopes that Draper will not think him 'ungenerous' and assures him that the visit would have given him great pleasure. In 1867 having returned to his Wisconsin farm after serving in the Union army Bates made a bet with a neighbour that he could not walk through the southern states with the Union flag owing to the bitterness and Confederate sentiments of the southerners. Having been reported on by Mark Twain Bates won his bet as everywhere he went he was greeted with kindness. 1872 saw a similar bet $1000 to Bates's $100 when he repeated his perambulations in England then considered to be harbouring Confederate sympathies. Such was the positive response that halfway through the English march he cabled back to America: 'Cancel wager. I regard this mission as something finer than a matter of money.' On letterhead of the Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London, England. 'Dec 3d. 1872 | 5 PM'. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni350,00 £GB≈ 399,63 €

Walter, James (Rev Howard Ward Beecher). (Liverpool). (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers)Biblio.com

SHAKESPEARE'S HOME AND RURAL LIFE

1874012516London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor. COPY OWNED BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER WITH ALS FROM AUTHOR PRESENTING THE BOOK. First edition large 4to purple cloth elaborately decorated in gilt aeg with numerous full page "illustrations of localities and scenes around Stratford Upon-Avon by the helioytype process". Disbound copy covers worn spine browned. With references in the text to Rev. Beecher's visit with his wife to Stratford on Avon in 1850 with a treatment of his observations thereof. Rev. Beecher's bookplate with his address of 82 Columbia St on the pastedown. The author James Walter a Liverpool shipowner is declared on the title page as Major of the Fourth Lancashire Artillery Volunteers an organization that he founded. The Volunteer Movement in England took hold after an invasion scare in 1859. The volunteer units were composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the regular British Army. The Lancashire Artillery that Walter founded was one of the first and the largest in the Volunteer Movement. Walter's ALS dated Chicago February 4 1883 is on letterhead of the Grand Pacific Hotel where both Walter and the famous Rev. Beecher 1813 - 1887 Congregational clergyman orator abolitionist and social reformer were hotel guests. The letter transcribed see below xxxx indicating unreadable reveals what an operator Walter was. Using both flattery of Beecher and feigned self-deprecation he tries to ingratiate himself to Beecher's favor apparently with the purpose of selling Beecher some portraits of George Washington by Shapler that were "owned by his family". He obsequiously points to the section of the book a rather pretentious grand state-of-the-art production for the time which describes Beecher's visit to Stratford on Avon "look to page 77 for your own beautiful paper". Walter also name-drops Rev. David Swing who as the most popular clergyman of Chicago of the time naturally would have been known to and by Beecher. An interesting curio of an artifact. GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL Chicago Reverend H. W. Beecher Chicago 4 Feb 1883 My Dear Sir On my arrival in New York last pairl I ried to see you but vailnly - sickness anxiety xxxxxx discouragments consequent on being utterly unknown in the mighty Babel of dollars caused my return to my name of his estate in England - I am within the last 2 months returned and find myself here in Chicago - I make another effort to shake your warm hand - a xxxx xxxx of your Star papers now for over thirty years compels it - and I want you to see the Shapler Washington portraits owned by my family which are here in the Pacific Hotel with me - they are best seen under the Electric Light in the Corridor or Drawing Room here - If you will kindly let me know any hour after 5 tomorrow Monday or Tuesday I will have been pleased xxxx xxxx - I am deeply anxious you should have been - I am a stranger as you see in America - though here in Chicago Professor Swing has been most kind to me - Do me the xxxx of accepting my "Shakespeare House" book: it will carry you to Stratford so deeply impressed on your heart and mind - and invaluable only for its illustrations - look to page 77 your own xxxx beautiful paper. Dont trouble to call on my room 395. I will call at your room anytime you let me know convenient - my room is a Den - when at home I am a horticulturalist. My xxxx friend the author of "Lorna Doone" xxxx grown Pears Plums and Apples - alas the reason for xxxxx pasts have all nigh driven us to the Worldhome - xxxxx my wife and daughters to "tidy up" English fashion - my palace is a very xxx of confusion worse confounded. Respectfully Dear Sir James Walter. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer hardcover

Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

[US 82ND FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION, KAGOHARA JAPAN - PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].Biblio.com

82nd Field Artillery Battalion Organization Day.

1950218504Japan: Camp Whittington Kagohara Japan. 1950. Ten black and white original photographs of members of the battalion attached with staples at corners to leaves of the album a colour photograph is loosely inserted 5 12pp 15.2 x 24cm cord ties corners bumped cellotape repair corners upper cover a little staining around outer margins leaves not affecting the photographs wrappers worn lower wrapper stained. Although showing signs of use and age the photographs are in good condition. Scarce. A photograph album of the 82nd Battalion's Organization Day at Camp Whittington which was located in Kagohara Saitama Prefecture. The album was compiled to mark the anniversary of the Battalion's founding which fell on 6 June 1950. This is significant because that date was just three weeks before the outbreak of the Korean War. This collection of photos thus shows up the battalion on the eve of war. The first five pages give a history of the battalion from its founding in 1917 through the Second World War when it was deployed to Australia and saw action in the Pacific to occupation of Japan where it was based at "Camp Whittington" near Kagohara in Saitama Prefecture. The cover photo shows the entrance to the base. The black and white photographs show the members of the battalion and are accompanied by a list of the members' names. One of the photographs is taken with Mt. Fuji in the background. There are also photos of the camp's main buildings and of members of the battalion with their unit's ceremonial shield. Interestingly a previous owner has inserted his own colour photo of a 82nd Battalion veteran's reunion held at Fort Hood Texas in 1995 though the only name which appears both in the album and on the 1995 photo appears to be that of John A. Skidmore. The Japanese Imperial Army established its Army Air Training School at Kagohara in 1935. After the camp was returned to the Japanese government in 1958 the base has been used by the Japanese Air Defence Force as a training school. . Camp Whittington Kagohara Japan. unknown

Asia Bookroom · Australie650,00 $AU≈ 428,42 €