1. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Buckle, George Earle (1854 – 1935).

Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) by english editor and biographer George Earle Buckle to Sir Harry Luke, condoling him on the death of his father, H.C.Luke. Buckle also mentions a referral Sir Harry obviously seeked to a Col. Murray an asked Buckle to broker the meeting. But Buckle reassures Luke that he met Col. Murray and Murray mentioned to him that Luke and himself went to Eton together: ’….i saw Murray later in the day + mentioned the matter + found him fully aware that he + you were together at Eton. So you can go to him without further introduction – 50 Albemarle Street – Yours with renewed sympathy G.E.Buckle.’

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Chelsea, 1930. Octavo. 1 page letter (both sides with text) including the original envelope. Tear to margins of the letter (1 inch missing). From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

2. [Malta Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry] Deedes, Brigadier General Sir Wyndham Henry.

Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) from Wyndham Deedes to Sir Harry Luke. Deedes congratulates Luke on his new appointment [Luke had just become Lieutenant Governor of Malta (he remained at that post from 1930-1938) ].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / University House, 1930. Octavo. 1 Letter with original envelope. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

3. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / Alington, Cyril Argentine.

Typed / Partly Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) / from Eton Headmaster Cyril Argentine Alington to Harry Lukach, after Alington had become Headmaster at Shrewsbury School: “My dear Harry, I think you will rather admire me for having a typewriter….i thank you for your charming letter and the Photograph which is most impressive. I was very glad to hear from you again and to know that your affairs are so flourishing…..We have just been to France for a week and have fallen badly in love with two or three churches, notably St.Ouen and Beauvais. I am very sorry to hear of the decadence of the Hotel Rome, but if it has deserted its charming Catholic name I quite see that success was impossible for it. You will, I know, b sorry to hear that I lost my mother at the beginning of this month……I am liking Life at Shrewsbury….which is a delightful place in itself….you don’t say how long your present job will last, but I hope it will allow you coming home before very long. My wife sends her best wishes & so would my daughters if they knew you – Ever yours affect. Cyril Alington”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Ross on Wye, The Chantry,, 1910. Quarto. One sheet, two page-letter signed. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

4. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / Ford, Lionel George Bridges Justice [Headmaster at Eton and Repton].

Typed / and partly Manuscript Letter by Sir Harry Luke’s former Tutor, Lionel Ford: “My dear Lukach, thank you indeed for writing so kindly abpout my appointment to Harrow. I hope you will forgive my answer takes a typewritten form. It seems almost the only way in which I could hope to acknowledge in reasonable time the letters of congratulations and good wishes that have poured in upon me….It is a great honour to have been asked to do this big work; I feel that very much, and I like to think it is in Repton’s honour rather than mine. But it will be a dreadful wrench to leave the old school…..[Ford continues to add in ink: “I don’t like your account of climate-yellow fever – But I feel v. proud of you and your work out there. Dominus return ! ….Yours very sincerely Ex-Tutor, always Lionel Ford”].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. The Hall, Repton, Burton on Trent, Headmaster Repton – Repton – Egginton, 1910. Octavo. One sheet / One page. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

5. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / Alington, Cyril Argentine.

Manuscript Letter Signed (MLS) / Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) from Eton Headmaster Cyril Argentine Alington to Harry Lukach, on Eton College stationery and accompanied with a photograph: “My dear Harry, I hope this will catch you in time to convey my best thanks for your delightful present….[Luke’s old headmaster continues by saying he wished he could go where Luke is going and finishes: “I shall think of you in Venice”] – Signed by Alington.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Windsor, Eton College, no year – c.1906. Octavo. Two pages manuscript letter signed (MLS) with photograph of Luke and friends on an ocean liner. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

6. [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.

7. [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.

8. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] Smallbones, R.T [‘Bones’].

Manuscript Letter Signed / Autographed Letter Signed from ‘Bones’, that was Luke’s friend from Trinity College, Robert Townsend Smallbones, British diplomat and Humanitarian. Very long four – page – letter from a youthful ‘Bones’ to Luke on November 1st, 1907: “My dear old Licky, thank you very much for your charming letter, I am afraid your father was not only justly byt considerably infuriated….requesting you to wire your father your movements. I was unable to deal with it as i was ignorant of you mothers address in Paris….and only hope you were able to brave the storm of parental indignation without too great loss of personal dignity and bodily comfort….I also hope the financial crisis in America and in particular the slump in Westinghouse has not affected the family fortune….We are leaving tomorrow morning…the reason is that my brother is going to Hungary …to shoot stags…I want to read up ssome German literature for which i shall find the books in Velm. I am in extremely bad form..I caught a violent cold & have been reading Mark Twain the whole afternoon….[‘Bones’ then continues to make fun of Luke not being able to win the heart of someone he just met on holiday and he taunts Luke by writing: “….I on the other hand shall kiss her to-morrow morning when saying goodbye. Poor old Licky !] The rest of the letter is about girls ‘Bones’ met and he expresses his hope to see Luke very soon.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. 1907. Quarto. 4 sheets / 4 manuscript pages in ink, signed “Yours ever Bones”. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

9. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke] / Vaughan Esq., E. L. [Edward Littleton, “Totty”].

Manuscript / Autographed Song called “Vaughan”, drafted by E.L. Vaughan Esq. himself on his personal Eton College Stationery: “I’m mastermaster Vaughan…who caters for the Eton College Rifles, the cutest ever born….”

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Windsor, Eton College, no year – c.1900. Octavo. Three pages manuscript draft. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

10. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke].

Four beautiful Manuscript Letters Signed / Autographed Letters Signed by Harry Charles Lukach, which he wrote home from Eton College (Windsor), between the years 1898 – 1902. One of the letters on Stationery of Luke’s Tutor, Reverend Lional Ford (later Dean of York), the other three letters on fine Eton Stationery.

[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.