Lot 129
Atkins, John Black
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
The relief of Ladysmith. London: Methuen, 1900. Second edition, 8vo, 17 plates and maps (1 folding), inscribed "M.E. Atkins" on endpaper, original red pictorial cloth, spine a little faded and very slightly rubbed at head; [Idem] Incidents and reflections. London: Christophers, 1947. 8vo, inscribed "J.B. Atkins" on front endpaper and with several authorial pencil corrections in the margins, original cloth, lightly rubbed (2)
Footnote
Note: John Black Atkins was dispatched to cover the Boer war as a correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. He met Winston Churchill on the way out and travelled with him to Durban. He mentions him in The relief of Ladysmith and chapter VII ["Mainly Winston Churchill"] of his autobiography, recounts his memories of Churchill during the Boer war. For Churchill's From London to Ladysmith, inscribed by Churchill to Atkins, see lot 153.