Author: Barnard, Anne. (Lady). (Ed. A.M. Lewin Robinson).
Title: The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas. From the Cape and Elsewhere 1793-1803. Together with Her Journal of a Tour Into the Interior and Certain Other Letters.
Description: Balkema. Cape Town 1973. Gilt publisher's device on terracotta boards, half rexine. 303pp illustrated b/w plates etc. large 8vo 1.0kg. Bookplate to front pastedown. A VG+ copy in lesser dustwrapper (heavily tanned, stained, unattractive). Contents excellent save spotting to preliminary pages. ISBN: 9780869610244 Newly edited with an introduction and notes. Lady Anne Barnard was the wife of Andrew Barnard, newly appointed Secretary of the Colony. In the absence of Lady McCartney, the wife of Earl McCartney - newly appointed as a civil Governor of the Cape - she became the de facto First Lady of the Cape. Her letters supply us with an unrivalled picture of life at the Cape at the turn of the 18th Century. They were no less a source of information to her intimate friend Henry Dundas, Secretary for War and the Colonies, back in London.

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