Mary Countess Minto (11 results)

Condition: Good. General wear to boards with marks. Content mainly clean with even toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo; (xii), 447 pages; Clean and tight in original navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine; original owner's name on ffep - "M. Jennings / August 1935." Mary Minto left behind a substantial body of written material, which is held by the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Her journals and diaries span the India years through her Court service (1906-1936) and her General Correspondence (MS 12433-12451) covers a vast period of her life and family history, 1877-1939. These materials have provided source material for several writers besides herself, in particular political historians of the era of the Indian Raj and Viceroy, but also providing insight into Court life documenting her travels with King George V and Queen Mary, at home and abroad. After her husband's death during World War I, there were unconfirmed rumours of a romanctic relationship and prospective marriage of Lady Minto to the great Lord Kitchener. Sadly, he drowned on board HMS Hampshire in 1916. Regardless of the existance of a romance, they were indeed very good friends. She records in her Journals anxious feelings when the rumours of Kitchenerâs loss first reached her. Several pages of her Journal are devoted to Kitchenerâs death and its aftermath. PROVENANCE: Mary L. Coleman Jennings was the wife of James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920), a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings then headed West and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela for another mining job. Finally, his talents as an innovative mining engineer, took him to South Africa. During 1889-1905 he was consulting engineer of H. Eckstein, in Johannesburg, and Wemher Beit, in London. Jennings was chiefly responsible for thr fevelopment and expansions of their mines, employing the most technologically advanced methods and equipment available in the day. In the rough and tumble of South Africa, he managed to keep out of John Hays Hammond's conspiracy to overthrow Kruger's government and to earn a fortune (the equivalent of about 10 million pounds in 2014) before he returned to America in 1905.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. Compiled From the Correspondence Between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State by Mary, Countess of Minto. London:Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1934. 447pp. Illustrated with folding map. Hardcover. Binding shows some light shelf-wear with some small scratches into the front board. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Map is present and intact. Overall, this is a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good used hardback copy. Nodustjacket. xiii, 447pp, foldout map, b/w illustrations. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket.viii, 447pp, b/w plates. Previous owner's name inside cover. Book.

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Physical description; viii, 447 p. fold. map, plates, ports. 23 cm. Subjects; India History 20th century. Great Britain Colonies Asia Administration. Great Britain Colonies Asia History 20th century. India Politics and government 1857-1919. Great Britain Colonies India. India History British occupation, 1765-1947. India Politics and government 1857-1919. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket.viii, 447pp, b/w plates. Previous owner's name inside cover. Book.

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Physical description; viii, 447 p. fold. map, plates, ports. 23 cm. Subjects; India History 20th century. Great Britain Colonies Asia Administration. Great Britain Colonies Asia History 20th century. India Politics and government 1857-1919. Great Britain Colonies India. India History British occupation, 1765-1947. India Politics and government 1857-1919. 1 Kg.…

Hardback. 447pp London 1934. Very good.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 492. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1934 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 492.…

The collection in good condition, with all but one of the six items carrying ring-binder punch holes. Item One, Articles of Agreement: Foolscap bifolium, 3 pp. Dated 16 September 1904. Printed seventeen-point agreement in the form of a manuscript facsimile. Signed by Johnson, Sir John Edge and Sir Stewart Colvin Bayley, and witnessed by 'W. Watson | R[oyal]. G[ardens] Kew' and 'Frank R. Marten | India Office'. Items Two and Three both with mourning border on letterhead of Minto House, Hawick. Item Two, Mary Countess of Minto ('M Minto') to Johnson. 4to: 1 p. 14 September 1914. She is enclosing 'a testimonial as to the work you did for us in India. I hope very sincerely that you will obtain some good position in Australia, or in some Native State'. She is glad he is 'so much stronger in health', and thinks he is 'quite right not to risk remaining in England throughout the winter, which we all feel very tiring after living for some years in India'. Item Three, Countess of Minto's testimonial, 14 September 1914. 'Mr. J. T. Johnson did a good deal of work at the Government House Gardens, Calcutta andn Barrackpore while Lord and Lady Minto were in India.' Praises his 'throrough knowledge of his work', 'skill and efficiency'. Item Four, Cecil Allanson to Johnson, 'Govt. of India Camp | Coronation Durbar 27/12/11'. Folio, 1 p. Writing 'to say goodbye and to thank you for the very excellent work you put in at Delhi and Calcutta on behalf of the Government of India and Bengal Camps'. He is recommending him 'very strongly indeed for the Durbar medal which you should get without doubt'. Offers to send him 'some small memento of the durbar'. Item Five, Allanson's testimonial. Folio, 1 p. 'He had very limited funds, andn a large area of very difficult ground. He did the whole of this work to my complete satisfaction and in my belief no one in India could have done it better.' Allanson 'formed the very highest opinion of Mr. Johnson's capacity not only as a horticulturalist but as a business man.' Item Six. 4to, 1 p. Invitation to a dinner on 22 December 1935 for Johnson and his wife, headed 'The Viceroy's House, Calcutta', from the Viceroy & The Countess of Willingdon.…