Sir,—Martin Greene (‘Bram Stoker's “Great Game”?’, HI 30.4, July/Aug. 2022) refers to the term ‘Great Game’ being in use ‘among British military officials in India’ from the Afghan wars onwards (that is from 1838 up to the date of Kipling's Kim (1901). The first recorded use is in 1840, when Capt. Arthur Conolly wrote ‘If ... Read more
