Author: Sterling, John Barton. (1840-1926). He had a distinguished career as a soldier and a writer on military matters.
Title: Autograph Letter Signed by Soldier and Writer on Military Matters Major-General John Barton Sterling.
Description: [London]: 14 February, 1896. 1896. - Letter filling one side of a 7 inch high by 4-3/8 wide sheet of light gray letterhead with the address printed in raised lettering at the top. Signed "John Sterling". Folded twice for mailing. Near fine.

Sterling writes to Mrs. Richard Ford thanking her for sending him a military book about the Jameson Raid. ["It is] of great interest, & is in every way far superior to the English version of the same events published at a much later date. In military matters the Germans know apparently very well what to say & what not to say: perhaps in political matters they are not always as wise. The Transvaal is most serious in all its bearings & Rhodes, Jameson & Co have spoilt for all time a splendid hand of trumps."

Major-General John Barton Sterling [1840-1926] entered the army in 1861, serving in Egypt and the Sudan. He was wounded at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 and subsequently commanded the Coldstream Guards until his retirement in 1901. He was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Atheneum Club. At the Atheneum he befriended Kipling who wrote of him that he "dealt faithfully with me when I made technical errors in any tale of mine that interested him." ["Something of Myself", page 143]. Fine .

Keywords: MILITARY; BRITISH ARMY; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY SOLDIER AND WRITER ON MILITARY MATTERS MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN BARTON STERLING; ALS; A.L.S.; SIGNATURE; JAMESON RAID; TRANSVAAL; CECIL RHODES; COLDSTREAM GUARDS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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