[Tschiffeley, Aimé Félix (subject): Cunnignhame Graham, Angus:

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[Corrected Typescript of His Memorial Tribute to A. F. Tschiffely]. Admiral Cunninghame Grahame (1893-1981, KBE, CB), nephew of writer Robert B. Cunninghame Grahame, here presents a substantial, elegiac personal memorial tribute to author, adventurer and equestrian par excellence, Aimé Félix Tschiffely (1895-1954). biographer of R.B. Cunninghame Graham (Don Roberto...1937) and most famously, author of Tschiffely's Ride (Southern Cross to Pole Star, 1933). Based on the manuscript salutation, the occasion for the memoir was formal: "Your Excellency, my Lords, and gentlemen. Those who could most worthily have the task I have the honour to undertake tonight have ridden on ahead of the great man whose memory we meet here to celebrate. I refer to Robert Cunninghame Graham & W.H. Hudson." He continues elsewhere to establish much of the theme of his tribute: "I suspect that the choice for this evening fell upon me as being one of the last available English-speaking specimens of that once-great species (or 'nation' as we call it) of equestrians and cattlemen, who, only a life-time ago, filled a quarter of the world with our exploits and songs - a great composite civilization, a multiple nation of many tongues, which comprises first and foremost the gauchos of the Argentine; with toreros and vaqueros of Spain and Mexico; the vaccari and buffalari of Italy; the cowboys of the Canadian and North American West; the Boers of South Africa; the cattlemen of New Zealand [,] Australia and Rhod

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