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(Black History Month) VMSS 443 - Charles George Gordon letter (Feb 9 1877)
Number of Pages: 4

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57016
Cairo, 9 February, 1877
My dear Mr Scott.
	I wrote you the enclosed, on board
the steamer, from Brindisi. Thank you
for your very kind remarks about me in "[---]"
which my frends told me of. You will see
in my enclosed note, what I say, about the
Jordan. I find I have lost the "enclosed note"
so I will go into to the matter again. I went
up to Jordan with my tiny letters from HH
about the supper of slavery & orders were given I
was not to be hampered. For 3 years I never
had any [---] t[---] of my reports concerning the
[---], and had I not fought any over my my-
-self, I should have failed. For I was eventually
abandoned by Cairo & opposed by all [---] of
intrigues at Kart[---], I succeeded and came down
in spite of all. I told H H I must not go back
because of these things, the K. said he would
r[---] them & I consented to return, when I
c[---] over my return. I saw that, to go up

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with useles letters would result in the
same thing, & telegraphed I could not
come back. H H. held me to my promise
& I was obliged to return to Cairo, but
I say that my promise was conditioned on
the removal of obstacles & suppor[-] of slave
trade, if I have as servants to be
treated fairly; the promise (after my
experience I consider letters of no use)
I will not go back, What is the guarantee
I require, in the Jo[-]dan. I consider, if
he will not give us the Jo[-]dan, that 
I have no guarantee. I shall not suffer
as I did before. I consider H H. breaks
his promise quite as much as I do
if he refuses to give it [---], & I refrain to
go up. this is the present state of
affairs. Personinally I do not count the
Jo[-]dan, in 3 yrs I shall be a General,

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I will write & tell you how this went
but I will not go up to contend agst
the Governor in my rear, & the
difficulties ahead of me, when I lack
every support from Cairo, I will no
longer contend, as I have done, (to
complete an object, (which would be
[---], I think, bad, in extrusion
of Egyptian rule, over [---]-happy land))
agst the employs of the K.
how for a matter of great import
I left a memo with a powerful
man Lord Cardwell, & told B[---]
of Foreign off: that England could well
(in the view of the inevitable disintegration
of Turkey) [---] [---] the independence
of Egypt. it would produce no war. &
no [---] could object. and we could
thou[--] thruly relieve K. of the unknown
[---] Turkey plays in Egypt which does
so powerfully influece H H's actions.

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Both men, I name, reward my [---]
with no dislike, will you my dear
Mr Scott, [---] with care &
ability, this question, it is needless
to print out to you, how this
dependence of Egypt on [---]y, hampers
all the Ks' actions. I wrote to Jibb
to speak to you, about it, before I
got your letter. Goodbye, I will write
again soon. You had better wait
before you say any thing of London
Could you come up here soon,
not yet.
	Yours sincerely
	with kind regards to Mrs Scott
& your circle C.R.Gordon