The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon, Including Several Never Before Printed (Classic Reprint)

Frontispiece From a daguerrotype sent by Mm at the time of Mi marriage to 7m uncle, Mits Gordon sfather. Lent for reproduction by Miss Frances Gordon. PAGE GEORGE STEVENS ON THE COLONEL, winner Wn Lof the Grand National in 1869 and 1870, but called Sr TtW t The Unlucky Horse 14 Reproduced by permission, from the oil-painting in the possession of his son, George Stevens, Esq. ADAM DURNFORD GORDON, the Cheltenham Colonel Newcome, father of the poet, and for eleven years Hindustani Master at Cheltenham College 21 From a miniature lent by Miss Gordon. GORDON ON CADGER, winner of the Metropolitan Steeplechase at Melbourne 50 Reproduced by permission of Miss Frances Gordon. Drawn by Gordon himself in a letter to her father. TOM OLIVER ON BIRMINGHAM ... 78 Reproduced by permission of Mrs. Shepherd, of the Stork Hotel, Birmingham. From the oil-painting which hangs there. GORDON ON HORSEBACK 117 Sketched by himself in a letter to Charley Walker. Reproduced by permission of Miss H. Walker.
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