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The Transvaal Repatriation Committee

Pretoria, June: 17: 1902

My dearest old Mother

This will be my last letter to
reach you on Africa's soil – melancholy,
yet cheering thought! But I will write
to you c/o Walmer Castle at Cape Town.
I do hope you will have a good
voyage and reach home safely. I
was very concerned to hear that you
were all ailing. The weather in
Port Elizabeth seems to have been
pretty awful. With us we had snow and
hard frost, but not much wind. In