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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 977

Sudan
Peronalities
Colonel Charles Egerton
1896 (20 Sept.) extract of letter from Egerton to recipient in South Africa signed "Charles Egerton". Letter mentions Egerton's visit to Tokar where a regiment had been quartered. "The place reminds me of Ezekiel's Valley of dry bones (how scriptural I am today)" reflects Egerton, continuing that the eventual defeat of Osman Digna was "too late to relieve Tokar (everything was too late in that most mismanaged campaign". Egerton also reflects on hearing news of the capture of Dongola by the Staffords. An interesting letter.

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