Letter, to Alice Webb from Tony Webb
Maker
Webb, Anthony James
Production date
Oct 1904
Current rights
Public Domain
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The letter is addressed to Alice Webb and is from her brother Anthony (Tony) Webb who was living in South Africa in 1904.
In the letter Tony discusses farm life, sowing oats and maybe building a mill to grind the oats into flour, a lynx killing his hens, buying pigs and making butter. He asks Alice if she would like some porcupine quills and how they are prized by married women (Kaffir) who use them as hair pins. He has followed this statement with a sketch of a woman with the quills in her hair and a baby on her back. He tells Alice about the difficulty he has in speaking to the people in their language, how he mixes up the words and that he must stop the habit of putting clicks in when he speaks English. He describes his ploughman, the way he speaks and how much he charges per field. He finishes the letter with a description of a plough he is going to buy.
Date, October 1904.
In the letter Tony discusses farm life, sowing oats and maybe building a mill to grind the oats into flour, a lynx killing his hens, buying pigs and making butter. He asks Alice if she would like some porcupine quills and how they are prized by married women (Kaffir) who use them as hair pins. He has followed this statement with a sketch of a woman with the quills in her hair and a baby on her back. He tells Alice about the difficulty he has in speaking to the people in their language, how he mixes up the words and that he must stop the habit of putting clicks in when he speaks English. He describes his ploughman, the way he speaks and how much he charges per field. He finishes the letter with a description of a plough he is going to buy.
Date, October 1904.
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Oct 1904
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Handwritten in black ink on paper.
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Height x Width: 215 x 135mm
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Subject date
Oct 1904
Current rights
Public Domain
Credit line
from the estate of Miss Elizabeth Webb
Other number(s)
m99/78/105, 90063
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