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High Commissioner's Office, Johannesburg.
Nov: 1: 1902
My dear old Nan
No letter from home has arrived this week so I presume you & the others are too much occupied in marrying my aged aunt. I hope everything went off well. The great news here is of course Mr Chamberlain's coming
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out in November. I think it extraordinarily plucky in him – a man of his sedentary habits, who dislikes travel & never was on a horse in his life. It is a most excellent thing for us that he is coming out, as some of the more troublesome financial questions, on which I was
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afraid we should have a difference of opinion with the Home Government, now stands a good chance of amicable settlement.
H.E. is off on trek again this week, returning next Tuesday. We are in the midst of another great press of work, trying to push ordinances through the Council at the rate of about 3 a day.
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I have not yet got my Land Ordinance through, but I hope that may be managed on Monday. I have still a great deal of running backward & forward to Pretoria, as Sir A.[Arthur] Lawley is constantly wanting to see me.
I had to take charge of Lady Lawley last Saturday night when her husband was being banqueted. I took her to the
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play, and then afterwards to hear the speeches. Lawley was very rhetorical but good; Lord M. was extremely witty & incisive, but I am afraid the audience did not appreciate his irony. Lady Lawley is a very nice woman – a sister of Mrs Athole Hay.
The Leconfields arrived last
