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Description: General Willcocks writes to A. M. Purcell, the editor of The Royal Gazette of Bermuda:

“Perhaps you may care to put this letter into the ‘Royal Gazette’.

I hope you & your & the lovely islands are all flourishing–We are having extraordinarily fine weather in this old Land.

Remember me to any old friends and with every good wish for you.

Yours Lovingly/James Willcocks”

Written on 7” x 4 ½” stationery imprinted: “Station, Billericay. Stock Lodge. Stock, Essex.” Item #A01922

General James Willcocks (1857-1926) served most of his military career in India and was briefly in South Africa (Boer War).  He was the Governor and General Officer Commanding Bermuda from 1917 to 1922.

A.M. Purcell was the editor of The Royal Gazette and the Colonist. He was known to poke fun at everybody including himself, and everyone took him seriously but himself. He came to be called “Bermuda’s Samuel Pepys.”

Condition: Mailing fold lines. Generally good condition.