Cecil Rhodes

Autograph l🍨etter signed ("C.J. Rhodes"), to Ladᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy Violet Cecil

written during his final progress through Rhodesia, opining on the Boer War ("...I suppose the war must be looked on as a great boon for letting us find out our deficiencies and I♌ am sure the old grit has not gone out of the nation...") and grumbling about the generous treatment of the Boers, 8 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Groo🍎te Schuur, Rondesbosch, Cape Town, autograph addressed envelope, undated but postmarked 10 May 1901 (with a postscript explaining that the letter "has ben lying unposted for two months")

[with:] two letters to Rhodes enclosed by him with his letter to 𒐪Lady Cecil, both🐼 on military affairs, 4 pages, folio, 1901

In 1901 R🀅hodes was in declining heal♕th. He died in March 1902.