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King, Ernest J (Fleet Admiral U S Navy)Biblio.com

U. S. Navy at War 1941-1945 Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy

[Transcripts of First World War documents by Sir John French, Sir Edward Grey, General Joseph Joffre and others]:Biblio.com

Typed transcripts of a number of First World War documents including copies of Sir John French's despatches on the Retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and of Aisne as well as communications from French Joffre and Sir Edward Grey.

10164Undated. The original documents dating from between 28 July 1914 and 2 January 1915. Folio 38 pp; and 4to 22 pp. Trade source stated that this material was found in a file marked "War Office" suggesting official file copies. All documents clear and complete. Good on lightly-aged paper. All foreign documents translated into English. The main documents are Sir John French's Despatch on the Retreat from Mons 7 September 1914 folio 10 pp; French's Despatch on the Battle of the Marne 17 September 1914 folio 5 pp; French's Despatch on the Battle of the Aisne 8 October 1914 folio 12 pp; Joffre's General Instruction No. 1 8 August 1914 folio 4 pp. The other documents are: two letters from the Czar to the German Emperor and a reply by him all three dating from July 1914; an instruction from Sazanof the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs to certain of the country's ambassadors and a letter from the German Imperial Chancellor to the German Ambassador at Vienna both dating from July 1914; two letters from Sir Edward Grey to Sir F. Villiers in Brussels and to the German and French governments a letter from Sir Arthur Nicholson to Grey and two letters from the German Imperial Chancellor to the ambassadors at St Petersburg and Paris all five of the last documents dating from July 1914; a German Army Order 22 for 23 August 1914; eight letters from Sir John French to Lord Kitchener and two replies by Kitchener all dating from August 1914; three documents by Joffre including General Instructions No. 7 all dating from September 1914; a telephone message from General Clergerie to Joffre; and finally a letter from the First Lord to French January 1915. Undated. The original documents dating from between 28 July 1914 and 2 January 1915. unknown

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Schwimmer, Rosika (1877-1948). Hungarian-born Feminist & Pacifist leader who was denied US citizenship for her opposition to warBiblio.com

TYPED LETTER BOLDLY SIGNED by the Hungarian-born Feminist & Pacifist ROSIKA SCHWIMMER making mention of Henry Ford's 1915 Peace Ship expedition which she initially led.

192395410Chicago: July 20 1923. 1923. Good. - A one-and-a-quarter page letter with over 325 words typed on 2 sides of her 11 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide light blue "4740 Dorchester Ave. Chicago" stationery. In her letter to the American lecture agent James B. Pond the noted feminist & pacifist Rosika Schwimmer outlines her intention to offer a lecture on Henry Ford's role in the Peace Ship expedition she led in the early years of the First World War a timely subject as Henry Ford was then campaigning for the Presidency. "Though numbers of Ford biographies and articles have been poured out none of them contains more than a hint about his peace efforts in 1915 Peace Ship and Neutral Conference." She goes on to explain that she is not proposing to "make a propaganda speech for or against him but merely to give the facts about a highly picturesque venture. It certainly would help the public to make up its mind what attitude to take in Ford's coming presidential campaign." Schwimmer also tells Pond about the subjects of other lectures she can offer listing 6 of them. Boldly signed in full on the verso with a couple of corrections in her hand. Folded for mailing with a few short tears to the bottom and to the edges of the folds reinforced with clear archival document tape from the verso. There is a horizontal crease along the top with a perforation to the top left. The Hungarian-born leader in the international pacifist and feminist movements Rosika Schwimmer 1877-1948 was a leading advocate of women's rights in Hungary. Schwimmer campaigned against child labor and for marriage reform and birth control. Her Hungarian Feminist Association succeeded in passing woman suffrage laws in 1920 Hungary. Living in London when the First World War was declared she traveled to the United States to convince President Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan to sponsor a neutral mediation conference. Unsuccessful she traveled the US speaking to a wide range of constituencies including feminist and Jewish groups. Creating the Women's Peace Party she convinced Henry Ford to sponsor a Neutral Mediation Conference in Stockholm. Setting off on the Oscar II which became known as the Peace Ship the American delegation was ridiculed by the press and suffered several setbacks. Several delegates resented Schwimmer's overbearing authoritative approach and supposed financial mismanagement and Henry Ford withdrew his support. She served as Hungary's minister to Switzerland during its brief existence as a democracy but fled after Bela Kun's communist party took over. Returning to the United States in 1921 she was shunned by those who had once supported her and had difficulty obtaining speaking engagements. A Chicago federal district court denied her application for American citizenship as she would not "bear arms in defense of the country" due to her pacifist convictions and because she was an advocate for a form of World government. The district court decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court but with a dissent from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The first reason for denying her citizenship is laughable considering her advancing age and that women were not then expected to serve in combat. She remained in the US as a resident alien until her death and was awarded a privately sponsored World Peace Prize and subsequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. Chicago: July 20, 1923. unknown

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Wildman, Edwin (1867-1932). Writer, editor, war correspondent and deputy consul general to Hong KongBiblio.com

TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the journalist and war correspondent EDWIN WILDMAN as managing editor of "The Forum" recommending the Shakespearian actor John E. Kellerd as a possible lecturer to James B. Pond.

1921100761New York January 18 1921. 1921. Fair. - Over 125 words typed on 10-3/4 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide "The Forum" buff stationery. The journalist and war correspondent Edwin Wildman writes to the American impressario and lecture manager James B. Pond recommending John E. Kellerd "Do you suppose you could use Mr. John E. Kellerd one of the leading exponents of Shakespearian Drama He is a man of character and and ability and is a good public speaker on this topic and upon the American stage ideals etc." He goes on to state that should Pond be interested he'd be "glad to send him over to call on you." Signed in full "Edwin Wildman". Folded vertically and horizontally for mailing the edges of the letter are chipped with a few short tears and pieces out from the right edge. Good.The American journalist and diplomat Edwin Wildman 1867-1932 worked as a writer and war correspondent for Leslie's Weekly. He served as Vice and deputy consul general at Hong Kong special war correspondent to the Philippines and for the Hearst papers as Chief Asiatic and special commissioner with allied troops in the war with China from 1900-1901. He later served as president and editor of The Forum Magazine.In the role of Hamlet the Shakespearian actor John E. Kellerd 1862-1929 broke the then existing record by a series of 102 consecutive performances in 1912-13.The American lecture manager James Burton Pond 1889-1961 was the head of the Pond Lecture Bureau in New York City. He managed lecture tours in the United States by prominent personalities the world over. New York, January 18, 1921.

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Clonmult Ambush of Irish Republican Army members by British forces, 20 February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence; NannBiblio.com

Typed copy of a letter purportedly by an Irishwoman addressed to a lady resident in England Nannie Dryhurst or her daughter Sylvia Lynd describing the 'butchery' inflicted on her son killed by the British during or after the Clonmult Ambush.

130613 March 1921. 2pp. 4to. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. One minor manuscript emendation see below. Dated at the head 'March 3rd. 1921' and addressed to 'Madam'. Part of the letter was published - lacking the first sentence and all of the second page and with the name 'Clonmult' omitted - in the second volume of the 'News Letter of the Friends of Irish Freedom National Bureau of Information Washington' where it was preceded by: 'The following is the story of an Irish mother who relates in a letter received by a lady resident in England how she was called to a military barracks in Ireland to identify her dead son:' The letter begins: 'Madam I beg to acknowledge with grateful thanks the sum of £1. I am one of the mothers of the boys who was killed at Clonmult on February 20th. sic He amended in manuscript from 'he' was only 19 years old and as fine a young man as you would wish to see and I his mother that saw him only three weeks previous to his death when I went up to Cork barracks to identify him I really at first could only recognise his hair - Oh! my goodness what a butchery they gave those 12 young men. To my dying day I wont sic forget the sight that met my eyes when that dead house door was opened to see all those fine young men thrown like dogs on the floor labeled "on H.M.S." and each one having a number and their poor feet tied with ropes. My poor boy was just inside the door his poor face all broke up his eyes were broke in his head his mouth broke and twisted and all his teeth in his mouth one arm completely cut off and not one inch of his poor body but bayonet wounds you could easily see they were bayonet wounds as ll his coat and pants were cut through and one great big hole just up at his neck like as if they drove the bayonet to the butt and turned it round'. Here the published extract ends but the author goes on to describe how her husband has been '12 months idle the end of this month he is gone to work yesterday thank God' and that her '4 little children' have been 'often hungry and would be worse only I went out working myself to try and keep the home over us and anywhere that poor boy tried to get employment the police prevented him also his father so thank God he is at rest'. She asserts that she 'could write a book on the way I and my family are persecuted by police and military during the past 18 months torn out of bed at all hours of the night my house and place all upset.' From the Dryhurst/Lynd papers. 3 March 1921. unknown

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