Welsh Journals

A MEMENTO OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. THE Powys-land Museum has been presented with a. golden bracelet, containing some of the General's hair, by Mrs. Luxmoore of Meifod, whose letter explains its history White House. Meifod, Nov. 30th, 1915. DEAR AIR. Archdeacon, — I am enclosing the bracelet with the hair of General Garibaldi and that of Anita his first wife. It was given to my mother, Mrs. Chambers, by the General. I hope the Welsh- pool Museum will like it. Mv father, Colonel Chambers, after he left the English Armv, 46th llegt., in which he was Captain, became Colonel of a" Lancashire Militia Regt., after called 3rd Bn. Man- chester Reg., but he liked active service, so asked the War Office for leave to join Gen. Garibaldi, whom he had met, and admired very much, and it was granted, only out of each year, he was to spend 3 months in England. Gen. Garibaldi liked an English man on his staff, and Colonel Pearce had become too old, so my father took his place, and my mother often joined him and helped in the Italian Hospitals. I enclose some copies of extracts from the papers I have, as vou said you would like to have them for the Museum with the bracelet, and then it would show that it was genuine. The Times, Friday, June 9th, 1882 GARIBALDI'S SWORD. SIR,-It is stated that the family of Garibaldi intend applying to an English Officer, the possessor of this relic, to return it to the Syndic of Rome for preservation in the Capital. I have Col. Chambers permission to state that immediately on learning through the press of the desire of the Roman Civic Authorities to obtain this memento of the Great Italian Patriot, he addressed a letter to the Ambassador, Gen. Mewbrex, placing at the disposal of. the Italion nation, not only the sword worn by Garibaldi through all his campaignes, and presented to Col. Chambers on the breaking up of the staff after the campaign of 1866, at the close of that