LONDON:
G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, HART STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
To
Colonel H. Trotter,
Colonel L. J. Oliphant,
AND
Officers of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards.
Few words are needed, and none by way of apology, for asking your acceptance of the accompanying pages. They are all I can now offer in grateful recognition of your affectionate regard for my very dear son, and of your sympathy with myself in the loss I have sustained by his untimely death. The last thought, I feel sure, that would have ever crossed his mind was that this simple record of his excursion in nearly untrodden ground would ever see the light in its present form. I have made no attempt to alter or revise it, as those who knew him best will most readily recognize. Great pains have been taken to secure the most artistic copies available for the reproduction of his photographs, which are the first ever taken in the Kittar Mountains. To these I have ventured to add one, which will recall a scene never to be forgotten by those who witnessed the last tribute of your affection in attending my dear son’s funeral.
Would that I could find words worthier to express my heartfelt thanks to you all, of all ranks, in your Battalion.
Most faithfully yours,
Frederic Pretyman.
Great Carlton, Louth.
September 1st, 1892.