Letter from HH Sultan Ghalib I of Shihr and Makalla to Brigadier William Walton, 24 Rabi el Akhar 1335 (16 February 1917)

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Letter 1pp, 20x26cm, headed with the royal crest of "HH Sir Sultan Ghalib Janbaz Jung KCIE, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla", on laid paper with Imperial Treasury De la Rue and DLR monogram and crown watermarks. Good, with light fold crease and some staining along the fold. This has Ghalib's letter in Arabic ms at the top, signed by him in English, below which is a neat contemporary looking ms translation into English as follows: "Translation: Makallah 24 Rabi el Akhar 1335 / To General William Walton / May he be preserved / After presenting my great respects I have to enquire regarding your honour's health, & hope that you are enjoying sound health. Captain Reilly came to us & informed us that you are in Aden slightly ill, wh. is going off, may God take it off. We did not know before that you were in Aden or we would have written to you. We are now presenting to you 4 cases of honey as a remembrance. Please accept the same & let us know. May you ever be guarded. Salaams. sd. Ghalib bin Awadh al Kuaiti, KCIE". Ghalib was Sultan of the Kuaiti / Quaiti State in the Hadhramaut within the Aden Protectorate from 1910 until his death in 1922. In 1916, Ghalib had entered into discussions with the Government at Aden seeking to realise his claims over parts of the Wahidi Sultanate. Brigadier (addressed here as General) William Walton is William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). As British Resident in Aden, in Feb-Mar 1915 he had proposed unsuccessfully to occupy Kamaran Island as a means to stop dhows taking telegrams, mail and money from Jiddah to the Ottoman HQ in Yemen. During 15 Nov 1915 to 16 Nov 1917, he was Brigade Commander and Commanding Movable Column, Aden, when he was mentioned in Dispatches twice. Among his earlier roles, he had worked in intelligence, been Aide de Camp to the Governor of Bombay (1895-7) and commanded the 104th Wellesley Rifles (1908-14) including service in the Persian Gulf (1911). Captain Reilly may be the long-serving Aden administrator Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly (1882-1966), who was then a political officer. Although not stated, this letter came from the collection of William's wife and autograph collector, Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949). N° de ref. del artículo 5085

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