A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed ‘C.J.Napier’ as Governor of Sind, to Lieutenant Colonel Manson, Commanding Artillery, Bombay, responding robustly to complaints of excessive drill and discipline imposed on Artillery officers at Karachi, defending Major Leeson’s insistence on obedience, discussing particular cases, giving his own high opinion of the Indian Artillery, who are required “to work together and obey without firing chits against orders!” by INDIA. NAPIER, General Sir Charles James
by INDIA. NAPIER, General Sir Charles James
A lengthy Autograph Letter Signed ‘C.J.Napier’ as Governor of Sind, to Lieutenant Colonel Manson, Commanding Artillery, Bombay, responding robustly to complaints of excessive drill and discipline imposed on Artillery officers at Karachi, defending Major Leeson’s insistence on obedience, discussing particular cases, giving his own high opinion of the Indian Artillery, who are required “to work together and obey without firing chits against orders!”
by INDIA. NAPIER, General Sir Charles James
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Karrachee, 30 September 1846. 10 pp. 9 x 7 inches, legible and in good condition, with the address panel (also signed by Napier), red oval KARRACHEE postmark, G.P.O. receiver. General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853), Governor of Sind (1843-47), Commander in Chief in India (1849-50). “There is a great deal of ingenuity used in this world to make mischief and to prevent it I have always found that, 9 times in 10, the shortest cut is the best, so I write to you at once. There is here a ‘dead set’ going on against Major Leeson, perfectly ruinous to Discipline ...”
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Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts
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- Book Condition Used
- Place of Publication Karrachee, 30 September 1846
