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Lot 572
WORLD WAR I: An interesting collection of five A.Ls.S., Edward E. Tully, by a British Naval Lieutenant, sixteen pages (total), 4to, H.M.S. Calgarian, H.M.S. Sirius and Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, 26th February 1917-25th August 1918, all to Miss Jeanette Dalton in New York. Tully writes a fascinating series of letters informing his correspondent about life in the Navy during the war, in part, 'I was sent off to Dunkirk, France, to join HMS Sirius. For about a month were busy bombarding places along the Belgium coast, then a few days in dock for repairs' (26th February 1917), 'We passed several US Destroyers patrolling the English & Irish coasts. They certainly did look fine. We gave them a hearty rally as we passed by & received a similar response with much cap waving & dipping of flags...We are at present lying at Halifax, Nova Scotia, just here on a call' (24th June 1917), 'Well, here we are in the thick of it again. We arrived at Halifax only a few hours after the explosion occurred & have been doing our best assisting in reserve work ever since. I won't dwell upon the scenes....It's just too awful for words....but the U.S.A. medical staff are just wonderful!...& undoubtedly were the means of saving hundreds if not thousands of lifes. Every person here is just full of praise for them. We still have a few of the wounded on board & are standing by to assist on shore' (13th December 1917) and in his final letter from hospital where he was recovering following the sinking of HMS Calgarian, Tully writes 'The poor old Calgarian. Well, there's little really to add to the press reports. I was sleeping at the time & got a very rude awakening. What with the explosion and umteen books falling on my head! I realised it wasn't the steward with my afternoon tea. There was no panic and we had heaps of time to get clear. The sea was as calm as milk...& we were even picked up by Destroyers, one of which had already sank the boch with a depth charge. We lost....including two engineers, but considering we had....torpedoes it might have been considerably worse.' (25th August 1918). Each letter is accompanied by the original envelopes hand addressed by Tully. Also included are two different calling cards belonging to Tully and three photographs of the Lieutenant of different sizes, each referred to in the letters, and two signed by him. Two words in the final letter have been neatly removed by the censors. Some light overall age wear, G, 10
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