The Reminiscences of an Albany Settler

"When the Jubilee of the British Settlers was celebrated in Grahamstown in 1870, the Rev Henry Hare Dugmore was chosen to tell the story of the Settlement, and the lecture he gave was later published . . . Dugmore had come as a child with the emigrants of 1820, and had shared fully in both the hardships and the achievement of the critical fifty years that followed . . . He was chosen to speak to them, because he had earned the right to speak for them . . . " (from the Introduction).

" . . . the text of the original narrative, published in Grahamstown in 1871, is reproduced unaltered apart from a few necessary corrections . . . [in addition] Dugmore's full account of his experiences as a missionary at Mount Coke and Wesleydale during the Kaffir War of 1835 [was] reproduced from an exceedingly rare volume of an early Methodist magazine . . . " (from the front flap).

Un-price-clipped (10s 6d) plastic-protected dustjacket, with a sketch of Grahamstown dating from 1823. Red cloth-boards. Arrowsmith's 1848 map of the Albany settlement reproduced on both endpapers. Frontispiece photograph by Hepburn & Jeanes of Henry Dugmore and his two brothers taken in the 1890s, when they were in their eighties. iv + 92 pp of text and the editors' footnotes and index.

CONDITION NOTES. The jacket spine-ends are lightly chipped. The covers and binding are fine. There is an 1858 ownership signature on the front free endpaper. A small sunned area on p iv is mirrored on the opposite p 1. The contents are complete, unmarked and otherwise undiscoloured, making this a collectable copy.