Author: Slater, J.F. (Ed. Rosalind Slater).
Title: The Carnarvon Dale Papers. 8. Charles. Being Letters and Diaries Preserved By Mrs. J.F. Slater (Sarah Ann Bland) at Carnarvon Dale on the Bushman's River.
Description: Self published. Paterson nd. Brown printed wraps. 136pp illustrated b/w photos. No inscription. VG+ condition. Letters written by Charles Guybon Slater to his mother from Johannesburg in 1889 and from Matabeleland & Mashonaland in 1890-1891. Charles was the twelfth child and youngest son. In 1888 he left home and took up employment as a broker's clerk in Johannesburg. Later he enlisted in the BSAP and was a member of the escort to the Rhodes 1890 Pioneer Column. Returning home in 1891 he settled to farming after the Boer War.

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