Selected writings of the late William Moorsom Laurence, Major Commanding Left Wing Kimberley Horse (1882)

Selected writings of the late William Moorsom Laurence, Major Commanding Left Wing Kimberley Horse and Editor of the Diamond News. Hard cover, gilt titles, original cloth, 163pp, water stains to end papers, previous owner’s stamp and inscription on flyleaf, boards discolored, slightly shaken, text pages clean. Consisting of: 11 letters he wrote during the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 during the Basuto War, a Latin translation of a Lord Byron Poem that won him a prize at age 12 from Haileybury College, a speech he gave on 22 June 1880 in Kimberley on the Annexation and his last three editorials in the "Diamond News" on "Lord Kimberley's Instructions to Sir Hercules Robinson", 3 appendices and obituary extracts from the press. Major Laurence was killed at the age of 25 in 1881 while leading his troops. Scarce.