Typescript for autobiography 'The Wheel of Fortune'.

Six folders containing a typescript of Cowan's autobiography, entitled 'The Wheel of Fortune', with many additional transcripts of documents and other related papers. This book was replaced by an edited version 'Sound of the Guns' by Captain Lionel G. Dawson, published in 1949.

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ID:	COW/17
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Cowan, Walter Henry
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 box, comprising 6 folders.
Parts:	Cowan, Sir Walter Henry, 1st Baronet, Admiral, 1871-1956. (Manuscript) Journals, 1893-1897. (Manuscript) (COW/1) Captain's orderbook of HMS GLOUCESTER,1910, and HMS ZEALANDIA, 1914. (Manuscript) (COW/2) Track charts of naval actions, 1916-1941. (Manuscript) (COW/3) Telegram from the Admiralty relating to the achievements of the Baltic Fleet, circa 1920. (Manuscript) (COW/4) Photographs, 1916-1922. (Manuscript) (COW/5) Album of letters, commissions, signals and memoranda, 1889-1931. (Manuscript) (COW/6) Letters received, 1921-1954. (Manuscript) (COW/7-9) Letters, 1917-1949. (Manuscript) (COW/10-12) Appointments, certificates, letters and signals, 1884-1955. (Manuscript) (COW/13) Photographs, ephemera and a set of military uniform prints, 1840-1952. (Manuscript) (COW/14) Official papers 1919-1920 and letters received 1939-1945. (Manuscript) (COW/15-16) Typescript for autobiography 'The Wheel of Fortune'. (Manuscript) (COW/17) Photograph album relating to HMS ALEXANDRA, 1886-1889. (Manuscript) (COW/18) Album of photographs and cuttings, 1884-1914. (Manuscript) (COW/19) Album of photographs and cuttings, 1913-1928. (Manuscript) (COW/20) Photograph albums covering a visit to Risalpur, 1947. (Manuscript) (COW/21) Book of newspaper cuttings relating to the Sudan and South American campaigns. (Manuscript) (COW/22) Scrapbook, 1916-1920. (Manuscript) (COW/23) Volume of newspaper cuttings, 1870-1889. (Manuscript) (COW/24) Prints from the 'County Gentleman', circa 1890-1899. (Manuscript) (COW/25) Pamphlet 'Silhouettes of German Fighting Ships', 1915. (Manuscript) (COW/26) Pamphlet 'The Crumbling of an Empire'. (Manuscript) (COW/27) Pamphlet 'The Old Naval Dockyard, Antigua'. (Manuscript) (COW/28) Warrant granting the degree of baronet, 1921. (Manuscript) (COW/29) Grant of armorial bearing, 1921. (Manuscript) (COW/30) Message of homage and a ceremonial proclamation, 1922-1926. (Manuscript) (COW/31)

Typescript for autobiography 'The Wheel of Fortune'.

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