Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1832-1914 (1st Earl Roberts | Field-Marshal)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Lord Roberts, with programme at the opening of the Roberts House, Dublin Zoo, 1889-1907
File
Identifier: Coll-11/E5
Scope and Contents
From Lord Roberts (17 letters), mostly relating to the Royal Zoological Society, Dublin. File includes programme at the opening of the Roberts House, Dublin Zoo (1902). Letter from Buckingham Palace to Lord Roberts who forwarded it to Daniel Cunningham.
Dates:
1889-1907
Letters of Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Lord Roberts of Kandahar
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1170
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of, at shelfmark E2009.12, an autograph letter signed 'Roberts' to 'Dear Sir', and marked 'Private'. It is a 3-page letter, headed (embossed) Royal Hospital, Dublin, and dated 18 February 1896. In it, he declines to stand as the Liberal Unionist candidate for the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University. He states that, 'The conclusion I have come to, and in which I have reason to believe that the military authorities concur, is that it would be undesirable for an...
Dates:
1896
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