The Scout Movement in India
Autograph letter signed.
4to (170 x 285 mm). 1 p. Original New India telegram form pasted to verso.
€ 2,500.00
Remarkable letter, sent by telegram: a witness to the first years of the Scout Movement in India. Dr Annie Besant, a women's rights and Home Rule activist, educator and campaigner for Indian nationalism, was also the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917 and the founder of the newspaper "New India", to which she telegraphed the present cable. Besant saw in the Scout movement an opportunity for boys and girls alike "to become better citizens, noble men and women", and often used her newspaper to promote it. In this letter, she appears to forgive the Scouts' founder, General Robert Baden-Powell, for "a hasty paragraph written many years ago", for which he has publicly apologized, and encourages her readers to see him as "a messenger of peace and goodwill".
Fragile, a few tears and cracks professionally repaired; occasional loss of a few letters, but well legible.
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