An Original Typed and Signed Letter By British Spy and Officer Bertrand Stewart to the National Review editor Leopold Maxse. Dated 1914. A fascinating letter in reference to his years spying for the British in Germany. He died a few months after writing the letter at the Battle of the Marne. Bertrand Stewart 1872-1914 worked as a solicitor in London and was also a military officer in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, he fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War. In between the two wars he volunteered to spy on German naval actions. He was famously arrested in Germany on 2 August 1911 and sentenced to four years in prison. Stewart and another British spy, Captain Trench, were pardoned and released by the German Kaiser as a present to Ernest Augustus the Duke of Brunswick when Augustus married the Kaiser's daughter, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. He died fighting off a German attack near the River Vesle during the Battle of the Marne. Leopold James Maxse 1864-1932 was an English amateur tennis player and journalist and editor of the conservative British publication, National Review, between August 1893 and his death in January 1932; Under editor Leopold Maxse, the National Review took an unfriendly attitude towards Imperial Germany in the years leading up to World War I. Size 255mm x 205mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases.