1 Wagenaar’s Kraal.
2 Wednesday
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4 Dear Friends
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6 I had to hire a cart at the station as there was none here to fetch me.
7 I am already feeling better & slept last night. Wish I knew you were
8comfortable & quiet somewhere, & Miss Greene writing her account of
9what happened at Middelburg.
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11 A lady from Kimberley whom I met in the train says the volunteers were
12sent out purposely to wreck my house in Kimberley, & that they came
13back & boasted openly of what they had done - it was the common talk
14of the town, but she said I must not mention my her name as De Beers
15would ruin her husband. She says what those people suffered who were
16openly opposed to de Beers passes words. Her husband is in with de
17Beers so they personally did not suffer. unreadable If only only I had
18the money to pay the lawyers I would take the matter up because if
19this can be done to me, what of the poor helpless Boers on their farms!!!
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21 Send this to your brother Charley & tell him it is ^private &^
22confidential. What we really have to fight is Rhodes Sievewright & the
23League far more than the military. Almost all really cruel things are
24done by the irregulars not the real British army.
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26 I enclose you Cron’s last letter to me which I found at the station
27please return it.
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29 If I could hire a little cottage here at Wagenaar’s Kraal for a
30month would you & Miss Greene care to come here. We could share the
31house keeping ^work^ so it would not fall heavy on any of us. They are
32very kind & friendly to me since I came back, have said nothing to
33pain me about my going to the congress. But of course if you or Miss
34Greene feel you must talk politics with them you couldn’t stay here.
35You need see nothing of them if we had our own cottage. But we should
36only get post once a week. In that way it would be much better at
37Beaufort. At Middleberg it seems to me we should be too far from the
38post.
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40 In Beaufort we should be in touch with everything. I feel in a way I
41ought to stay here, as I can work here & probably shan’t anywhere
42else.
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44 I am just finishing off my book.
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46 Olive
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48 ^Return Cron’s letter & the enclosed^
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