An Illiterate General.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1911, Page 4

An Illiterate General.

Among the autograph, letters sold at Sotheby's recently was an interesting one written by the great Duke of Marlborough from the Low Countries, where he accompanied William ITT. in the campaign, of 1691, an expedition that placed l bis foot on the first rung of the ladder that led to highest fortune. I coyp the manuscript literatim (writes Sir Henry Lucy in the "Sydney Morning Herald"). Tt presents an appalling example of the illiteracy of our present Home Secretary's great ancestor. "Since my last'to you," he writes to a correspondent in England, "I am to thank you for ton (tone) of yours to-morroe (tomorrow) ihe Prince of Wai die sends me, "aiid some other general oficers (flic) to Bmxelles to settel with the Ma: Oastanaga proper places for the troopes to remain in for some littel time after the .army devides, which •I beleve (sio) will be in six or seven days, after which if I am left at my own disposall, I shall lose noe time in. coming for England, Wowever, I am afraid, I shall not be able to come i with his ma jiste for tis sayde he will embarque this day senight."

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