GERTRUDE BELL | autograph letter signed, to Sir Frank Swettenham, c.1904

BELL, GERTRUDE

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM

sending him confidential views ("...But be silent. These things are not known..."), about Balfour’s Anglo-Japanese Agreement of 1905 and the Entente Cordial of 1903-1904, accusing British negotiators of weakness (“…every time they said give, we gave…”) and a lack of support for imperial interests, 7 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of 95 Sloane Street, [c. 1904]

Sir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General of the Federated Malay States. Bell visited Swettenham in Singapore in 1903 and the two continued correspondence until 1909.

PROVENANCE:

Roy Davids; his sale, part II, Bonham's, 29 March 2011, lot 377

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