The Journals of Elizabeth Lees Price, written in Bechuanaland, Southern Africa 1854-1883.

Mrs. Price was the daughter of a missionary, Robert Moffat. In 1861, at the age of twenty-two, she married another missionary, the Reverend Roger Price, and lived and worked with him among the Bechuana tribes of southern Africa until his death in 1900. She died in Cape Town in 1919 at the age of 80. She had fourteen children, of whom ten survived childhood and amidst all the rigours of this very full life, often lived in primitive conditions, travelling by ox-wagon before the railways had found their way northward, she found time to write long and detailed letters(which she calls journals) to her friends and children in England, and to her sister, Jeanie.

Many of these original letters survive, and were presented to Rhodes University, Grahamstown , by her daughter, Christian. They have been edited and fully annotated, with an introductory essay, by Miss Una Long, who spent many months in South Africa on the work and visited all the places where Mrs Price lived.

These letters, hurriedly written as they often are, in bits and pieces in the intervals of work and travel, throw a vivid light on the chances and excitements and humours of daily life in that mission-field and on the minds of the native Africans, besides giving glimpses of the larger events that were happening further afield. 

Hardback with clipped dust jacket over red boards. x plus 564pages. Halftitle. Title. Contents.

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Map. Index. 8vo 21.4 X 13.5cms. First Edition. 1956. Very clean copy.