A one page typed letter signed by Prime Minister J.B.M. Hertzog to Patrick Duncan dated 1st. May 1934, on Prime Minister's letterhead. Circa 80 words, concerning the possible use of Woolsack House by Ministers of the government.
Patrick Duncan (later Sir Patrick Duncan) was at the time the Minister of Mines. He was later to be the 6th. Governor General of the Union of South Africa.
The Woolsack, designed by (later Sir) Herbert Baker, was built in 1899-1990 for Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the English writer born in India, on the instructions of Cecil John Rhodes. The Kiplings spent their (South African) summers at the Woolsack from 1900 to 1908. Rhodes intended that the Woolsack, built on the Groote Schuur estate, to be used by succeeding generations of writers and artists, visiting South Africa because "if they live in beautiful surroundings they will be better inspired to interpret through their art of the beauty and grandeur of the country". It is currently a residence of the University of Cape Town.
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