Autograph request
Sent by Bray to Lady + (Cigarette card featuring Lady Sara Wilson) + Mafeking, British Bechuanaland, South Africaon 24th July 1900 requesting her autograph.
Postcard with a cigarette card attached with the name portion removed leaving the postal authorities the challenge of identifying the intended recipient.
Lady Sarah Wilson, RRC (4 July 1865 - 22 October 1929), born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill, became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Boer War.
Born on 4 July 1865 at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill was the youngest of the 11 children of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-1883), and his wife, Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane (1822-1899), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. Her eldest brother was George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844-1892), and another brother was Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895), father of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), who also worked as a war correspondent during the Boer War, for The Morning Post. Anne, Duchess of Roxburghe (1854-1923) was her elder sister.
