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Hoch family collection : Arthur Campbell Yate papers

Letters to Colonel Yate from ranking military officers and titled politicians concerning official business of the Central Asian Society including two letters (1922, 1924) from Gen. Sir Lee Stack, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army and Governor General of the Sudan together with newspaper accounts of his assassination by Egyptians in 1924, and two letters (1920) from Paul Miliukov, first foreign minister of the provisional government after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Other topics include a protest against admission of women into the society (1926); attempts to start a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association in India; and condolences (1919) to Evelyn Georgiana Mary Strutt, the widow of Lord Rayleigh, British physicist. Other correspondents include the Earl of Shaftesbury, Abbas Ali Baig, Sir Edmund Ironside, Marquis of Breadalbane (director of the St. John Ambulance Association), Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, Gen. Archibald A. Montgomery-Massingberd, Herbert Warren, Earl of Ronaldshay, Sir Reginald Wingate, Beauchamp Duff, Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Field Marshal Sir A.A. Barrett, Field Marshall Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Sardar Muhammad Hashim Khan, Robert T. Coryndon, and Maud Evelyn Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne.

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