Rothchild, Lionel Walter (The Second Baron). Autograph Letter Signed in English to the Secretary of State at the War Office.

AUCTION 10 | Tuesday, June 27th, 2000 at 1:00
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Lot 288
(ANGLO JUDAICA)

Rothchild, Lionel Walter (The Second Baron). Autograph Letter Signed in English to the Secretary of State at the War Office.

Black ink on headed paper. pp. (3). Lightly browned, stamped “Received” by the War Office. 8vo

Tring: 28th November 1917

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
Voices his objections “as an Englishman” accepting money for an English regiment (38th Royal Fusilers), from an alien enemy. “It appears strange,” he asserts, “that the English Vice-Consul should have failed to grasp this fact.”