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Description: | "South Africa" (also Rhodesia).
Places visited include: Cape Town (including visit to grave of Ralph Fane and enquiry after W. Fane's monument; on return visited legislative assembly), Kimberley (inc. De Beers), Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Johannesburg (inc. City Deep Goldmine), Pretoria (inc. description of proceedings at Law Court), Waterpoort (stayed at 'Woodlands', farm of his sons Harry, Francis and Charles, near Waterpoort; includes description of negotiations for farm workers with Mpefu, the local head chief), Pietersburg, Letaba, Zoekmakaar, Bloemfontein, De Aar, Beaufort West.
At back: Expediture accounts, notes on the Union Fruit and Citrus Farm at Letaba, projected farming accounts, miscellaneous notes relating to farm, etc; lists of hotels and addresses, etc; notes relating to William Fane's grave.
Enclosures: First class cabin passenger's contract ticket with the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company for travel on the "Balmoral Castle" (transferred to "Briton") between Southampton and Capetown; draft letter to Lloyds of London appointing Mr E.N. Crofts as proxy in business matters during time abroad, 2 Sep 1925. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | Oct 1925-Mar 1926 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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