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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
Date:
1837-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.199 & 21.225
Summary:

Comments on HS's dealings with native tribal groups and returns a volume of related material.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
Date:
[3 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.197 (C: RS:HS 21.221 & Rhodes Univ. Library inc)
Summary:

Comments on the shooting death in 1835 of Hintsa, leader of the Xhosa people. JH believes that no wrongdoing occurred.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.198
Summary:

Thanks for kind thoughts JH sent, after a difficult time about the Kaffir wars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Harry George Wakelyn Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.200
Summary:

Note accompanying copy of dispatch relating to Kaffir wars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project