Memoirs [manuscript]. 1858-1908.

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Memoirs [manuscript]. 1858-1908.

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Memoirs of General Horatio Gordon Robley, sent to L. Kashnor. Includes a narrative of his army life and service, 1858-1887. He relates a Fenian Episode, and gives lists of pictures drawn by him and printed in the Illustrated London News, the London Graphic and Punch. He describes the gathering of a collection of Maori heads. In describing the history of the greenstone tiki, he suggests that the Maoris were a Middle Eastern people. He transcribes an article from a Spanish paper defending the Spanish bull fight.

81 p.

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Kashnor, Leon.

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Together with his brother D. Kashnor, Leon Kashnor was the owner of the Museum Book Store in London specializing in social and economic history; he was among the first booksellers to gather a large collection around some movement or person, before selling it as a whole; in the course of forty years he built up and sold several collections of unique material relating to British social and economic (and political) history from the seventeenth century on; a collection of this kind, including the wo...

Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-....

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