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The Transvaal Land Settlement Board,

Pretoria, June: 6 1902

My dearest Mother

Another hasty missive. I
had a large budget of letters from
home on Saturday – from Anna,
Uncle Willie, John Jameson, Duncan
Warrand etc. John Jameson says
that old Bob Smith, a drucken
fisherman at Kirkcudbright, whom
I once took to Loch Dee
with me, was asking after me,