CHAND

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Two Autograph Letters Signed and a Holograph Poem from Khushal Chand to his 'master' [Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Barnes Peacock of the 31st Punjab Regiment], all three items written, as the author declares, 'submissively'.

Author: 
Khushal Chand, servant to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Barnes Peacock (b.1873; fl.1955) of the 31st Punjab Regiment, son of Sir Barnes Peacock (1810-1890), first Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court
Publication details: 
Poem from Rawalpindi City; 28 July 1907. Letters both from Lahore; 23 May and 26 July 1912.
£120.00

The three items give a hint of a certain aspect of Anglo-India relations at the high point of the Raj. Letter One (23 May 1912): 2pp., 12mo. On aged and ruckled paper, with closed tears on second leaf along crease lines. Adressed to 'My Lord'.

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