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Letters from a Boer parsonage. Letters of Margaret Marquard during the Boer War / edited by Leo Marquard. [Illustrated.] by Margaret Marquard
Letters from a Boer parsonage. Letters of Margaret Marquard during the Boer War / edited by Leo Marquard. [Illustrated.] by Margaret Marquard
Hardcover
Publisher: Cape Town : Purnell, 1967 first edition.
Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and shelf wear but the pages are clean, intact with slight tanning on the first and last pages and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
‘When the Boer War began on 12 October 1899 the Rev. J.J.T. Marquard, Moderator of the Dutch Reformed church of the Orange Free State and his family were living in the parsonage at Winburg, a small town some sixty miles west of Bloemfontein. Four days after war broke out, Marquard’s wife Margaret began to record day-to-day happenings at Winburg in the form of letters to her mother at Stellenbosch and her husband on commando.’
140 pages, Frontispiece of Margaret Marquard who wrote a daily account of the happenings at their farm in Winburg when the Boer War began in the form of letters to her mother at Stellenbosch. These letters described the events that impinged on her life, eg. British and Boer prisoners passing through Winburg; martial law, refugee camp as well as the humour and pathos in the situation.
