1 Wagenaar’s Kraal
2 Feb 25 / 00
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4 My dear Friend
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6 I posted a note to you this morning, but am writing again to let you
7know how much better I am. I will send you part of Cron’s letter to
8read new week. What John Morley said about Milner is the best thing
9yet said about him^; no one here has ever said anything better.^
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11 It is wonderful air here. I have never breathed better anywhere, it is
12astonishing. This is not an ugly place though some how, at least at
13present I like it less than any place in the Karroo I have seen. But
14if I get well & can work here, nothing matters.
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16 How is Miss Smith? What are your plans about the school?
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18 It is terrible here to get news so slowly of the war. The last news I
19have is that Cronje is hemmed in between near Jacobs-dal & Roberts
20will not grant 24 hours truce says he must fight or surrender. God
21grant he fought & conquered; if not we must accept it. It doesn’t
22matter how things go now; in the end history will be with the
23Republics. That is what I cling to. I do not know how it is I cannot
24feel more depressed.
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26 When you have your next holidays where are you going?
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28 Cron says that if the Boers could have had one or two more successes
29France would have stepped in on behalf of the Republics, that Russia &
30Germany are urging her to do so. If they can even now hold on till
31April something may yet happen.
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33^The feeling in America for the Republics is growing rapidly.^
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35Olive
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37 ^Cron saw your brother Percy for a few moments & he asked him three
38times to dine with him but Cron was full up with engagements. He hoped
39to see more of him the next week. He got a seat for the opening of
40parliament. He is ^was^ going in three weeks time to lecture in the
41north.^
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