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Letter from Lady Dorothy Stanley to G.F. Watts, dated 10 May 1898, comparing Cecil Rhodes to her husband Henry Morton Stanley. |
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much nobler head, with the look of the Great Commander - if you want the head of a Maker of the nation - I will gladly lend you Stanley, for I should indeed be proud, beyond words, that there should be an undying portrait of Stanley - who discovered and founded the Congo Free State 900,000 square miles and offered it to England - 30,000 square |
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