BOER WAR RELATED) LAWRENCE RICHARDSON SELECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Davey (Arthur M. ed.). Lawrence Richardson Selected Correspondence (1902-1903). Cape Town: VRS, 1977. VRS Second Series No 8. Lawrence Richardson, selections from whose correspondence comprise this volume, was a member of the Society of Friends who was involved in two fact-finding and humanitarian missions to South Africa soon after the Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1900). His correspondence records meetings with some of the celebrities of the times - Emily Hobhouse, Mrs Koopmans-de Wet, Milner, Goold-Adams, Sargant, Botha, Smuts and Hertzog. His meticulous diaries detail his interviews and draw a perceptive picture of a society devastated by war. His notes also covers activities after the war (one of which was the restoration of looted Boer family bibles to the original owners). (vii) + 219pp., frontis portrait, plates and fold-out map. Ex-Libris of previous owner neatly pasted in on ffep. Very Good. Top end of hinge between frontis and title page slightly cracked. No dw. Brown Cloth Gilt. (#000367)