Summary of Correspondence Relative to the Policy Pursued towards the Native Tribes on the Eastern Frontier

 London: The Foreign Office, April 25, 1851. Confidential document (pp. 132). Folio (30 cm) in stiff card, printed on light blue paper. ‘Beginning from the year 1819 the attempts to settle the grievous position on the Easter Frontier are traced and the steps taken. The Kaffir Wars, the Commission of inquiry, the men at the head of affairs such as General Dundas, Lord Charles Somerset, Sir Lowry Cole, Sir Harry Smith and Kaffir Chief Makomo… and many others. Localities of Graaff Reynet, Keiskamma, Albany, Upper and Lower Kaffirland, King Williams Town, Fort Cox, Kat and Fish Rivers…. Document of the greatest importance in the history and development of the troublous Eastern Frontier….Excessively rare’ (catalogue item, Africana Antiquarians, Port Elizabeth, 1952, included). Wrappers chipped at the edges, contents Fine.