Category: From the archieve
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A Letter from a Soldier of Caffreland*. Preston Guardian, 1852
*Also known as the Eastern Cape in modern South Africa. “Dear Father. – I received your letter, which I had long expected, on the fourth of this month, whilst in the camp of Yellow Woods, just under the Waterkloof, for it happens that I am one General Cathcart’s cohort and I have been with him…
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Death of Jem Mason The Steeple Chase Rider
The Sporting Life—Saturday October 27th 1866 Modern hunting men, whose talk is of horses, and who seldom care to note how Gulder held the line over a dusty fallow or how Grappler turned short to the left while the whole body of the hounds flashed to the right, differ very widely about riders’ merits. There…