Catalogue description Letters to 'Jemmy' and Johnny Coventry from their brother Walter Bulkeley Coventry in South Africa

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Details of 8M59/784
Reference: 8M59/784
Title: Letters to 'Jemmy' and Johnny Coventry from their brother Walter Bulkeley Coventry in South Africa
Description:

Walter gives details of his job for the Public Works Department in Cape Town and his life generally, especially the difficulty of finding suitable lodgings.

 

Comments on Cape Town and farmers, 'nearly all the Dutch farmers are well to do men - but most disgustingly low and slovenly in their habits' (item 3)

Date: Apr 1882-Jan 1883
Held by: Hampshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 8 items

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