AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY BRITISH WORLD WAR I ARMY OFFICER SIR REGINALD HOSKINS ABOUT A POSSIBLE AMERICAN LECTURE TOUR.

Washington, DC: April 9, 1925., 1925.. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling all 4 sides of a sheet of letterhead folded once to form 4 black-bordered sides, each 6-3/4 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. The address where Hoskins is staying is printed at the top. Signed "Reginald Hoskins". There is a light paper-clip mark to the top edge of each side & the recipient's "date answered" stamp is is on the first side at top right. Folded once for mailing. Together with a sample brochure promoting a previous Hoskins lecture tour. Also with a carbon copy of the recipient's reply. Near fine.

Hoskins writes to J.B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau, following up on their discussion of a possible American lecture tour. He is about to leave for London and wonders if the financial arrangements will make it feasible for him to return for an extended tour. "I know that it is not easy to foresee with any certainty what sort of a success financially can be made and you quite understood my disinclination to return on an off chance...."

Major-General Sir Arthur Reginald Hoskins [1871-1942] was a senior British Army officer during the First World War. Hoskins served in the army from 1891 to 1923. Prior to World War I he saw active service In in the Dongola Expedition, the Mahdist War, the Second Boer War and the Somaliland Campaign. In September 1914 he was recalled from East Africa, where he was acting as Inspector of the Kings Africa Rifles, and joined the 8th Division, then engaged on the Western Front. He was given command of the 8th Brigade in 1915 and in early 1916 was transferred to the East African Campaign. He became Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in East Africa in 1917, later serving as commander of the 3rd (Lahore) Division in Mesopotamia and Palestine for the remainder of the war.