811. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / [Sassoon, Philip / Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Baronet].

Manuscript Letter Signed / Autographed Letter Signed from one of Luke’s old classmates at Eton who writes to Luke’s first posting in Sierra Leone in September 1910 and reminisces about the time when everyone at Eton would apply to Philip Sassoon the “amazingly insulting nickname “Jew”: “My dear Harry, very many thanks for your good wishes and the ring, which I hope will serve a talisman puissant enough to avert the evil consequences which seem to have been the invariable commitments of marriage in the case of your other friends ! I don’t think i am really misanthropic, although I admit that things interest me more than people on the whole….curiously enough my wife was at the Orsi’s in Florence a few weeks after you had left, and the house seems still to have been full of the “Lukian” epic ! How long to you intend to stop in your African furnace – and what are the books about ? My fortunes are still in the melting-pot and unless the present job becomes very much more lucrative in the near future, I shall chuck it and try something else. I had a rather jolly letter from “Jew” Sassoon [that is Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon] from India. Sapper is out there too with the 17th Lancers. How extraordinarily far away Eton seems ! Has it ever struck you how amazingly insulting the nickname of “Jew” was, and how readily it was adopted and admitted by its users and its victim ? Nasty things, boys – I will try to write regularly in the future….FCL [?]”

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Kensington, 1910. Octavo. Two pages manusript letter signed (MLS) on folded A4 sheet. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

812. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / Eton College Admission.

Manuscript Letter signed by Admissions – Dpt. of Eton College: “Entered H.C.Lukach for early in 1898 – Dear [?] – Sunday at 12.30 would do for me if Mr Lukach could come at that time – Believe me – Yours truly …[?] – Eton College -7 Nov. 1897.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [Windsor], Eton College, c.1897. Octavo. Manuscript note / letter on Eton College Stationery. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

813. [Caribbean Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Manuscript letter, signed, from colonial administrator, Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey on stationery from Government House, Belize, during his Governorship of British Honduras (1949) to Sir Harry Luke regarding the necessary refurbishment of Government House in Belize: ’‘They are tying me down to a pathetic 750000 pounds when I need 10 million pounds’ – Good God ! Wake up England !!!’

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Belize, 1949. Octavo. 1 Letter. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

814. [Malta Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry] / [Archbishop of Rhodes (Sir Mauro Monsignor Caruana)] / Bishop of Gozo (Mikiel Monsignor Gonzi)] / [Lord Strickland, 4th Prime Minister of Malta].

Manuscript Letters Signed (MLS) / Autograph Letters Signed (ALS) on Stationery of the Lieutenant Governor of Malta, from Sir Harry Luke to his mother during the month of June, 1932. The two multi-page letters (from the 6th and 13th of June, 1932) deal with private matters but also have significant content about the famous conflict between the two local, Maltese Bishops [1. Archbishop of Rhodes (Sir Mauro Monsignor Caruana) / 2. Bishop of Gozo (Mikiel Monsignor Gonzi)] and Lord Strickland, 4th Prime Minister of Malta. Luke writes in the letter from June 6th, 1932: “There have been a succession of political changes here these last 2 weeks, keeping me very busy. The Bishops here first refused to accept an apology from Lord Strickland, then agreed to accept it, so the Elections, which were nearly again suspended, will after all be held, next week & after which the new Ministry will be formed and, if all goes well, I should with luck be able to get away about end of June & go with the first instance to England, coming out to you (I hope with Peter) about first week in August…..Things politically seem in a pretty awful mess everywhere. I hope this depressing crisis will soon pass off. Ronald Storrs, whose time in Cyprus is up in hours, has been made Governor of Northern Rhodesia (Central Africa) which I fear he won’t like very much, & he is being succeeded by a very senior man, Sr R[eginald Edward] Stubbs, the present Governor of Jamaica, who is one of the most senior of the Governors. I should have had [?] Cyprus, of course, but would rather be here than go to some remote & awful African hole.”

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Malta, 6 June, 1932 & 13 th June, 1932. Quarto. Two Letters, each four pages on two sheets. From the personal library of Sir Harry Luke, letters to his mother which he inherited after her death.

815. [Miscellaneous] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Smallbones, R.T [‘Bones’].

Memorandum for Sir Harry Luke relative to the property of R.T.Smallbones on the Island of Coludarz / Inquiry to his Majesty’s Secretary of State regarding the export of a trunk from R.T.Smallbone’s family. R.T.Smallbones writes here to his friend Harry Luke in Sao Paulo about a Trunk with some Heirlooms of his family which must have turned up in Austria after World War Two. Smallbones includes for Luke a copy of a letter which Smallbones had sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign AFfairs at the Foreign Office in London, explaining the History of the Heirlooms of his grandfather George Smallbones (″who was then employed by the Duke of Marlborough as a land agent”). Smallbones hopes that Harry Luke can help him bring the triunk back from Austria, where Luke holidayed regularly in Alt-Aussee.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Sao Paulo, 1952. Octavo. 3 Letters plus one page inventory. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

816. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / British Museum.

Original Leaflet for Reading Room Etiquette at the British Museum.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1904. Octavo. 2 pages. Pamphlet. From the library and personal collection of Sir Harry Luke.

817. [Family History of Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Sir / Lukach, Harry Charles].

Original Notary Document stating the change of the Family-Name from “Lukach” to “Luke”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Norfolk, 1919. Folio. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

818. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] Ormsby-Gore, W.G.A. [William George Arthur].

Original Notice of the 488th Meeting of the “Strafford Club”, signed (in print) by Hon. Sec. W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, (New Coll.) regarding: “That in the opinion of the Club some Reform in our present tariff system is immediately needed for the improvement of the social and industrial position of this country and for the further unity and stability of His Majesty’s Empire” – “The following Officers for next term have been proposed by Mr.Shedden and seconded by the President: For President – Mr.C.Overy / For Treasurer – Mr.B.J.Gould / For Secretary – Mr.H.C.Lukach”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Oxford, New College, August 7th, 1905. Octavo. One manuscript letter, accompanied by two an original section from the Oban Times in which the adventures of Luke and Pirie-Gordon were discussed in the issue of Saturday, August 5, 1905. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

819. [Malta Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Original photographic plate of Edward Cruana Dingli’s painting of Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

820. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] Trinity College Oxford.

Original Receipt for University Dues of Harry Charles Lukach (later Sir Harry Luke) for Easter Term, 1906 at Trinity College, Oxford with section about Weekly Battels / Buttery / Kitchen / Fees for Tuition, College, Poor Rate, Servants Beating Carpets, Electric Light as well as money collected for the Henley VIII (Rowing) and the College Athletic Club.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Trinity College, Oxford, 1906. Octavo. 2 pages. From the library and personal collection of Sir Harry Luke.