MORRIS, Mowbray.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The First Afghan War. First edition of this short timely history, issued in the opening year of the Second Afghan War; it is commercially scarce. Morris (1818-1874) was manager of the Times and its foreign editor, in which role he was "highly successful … scrutinizing his correspondents' work meticulously, guiding them in brilliant letters, and dismissing them when necessary with prompt ruthlessness" (ODNB).

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