Margaret Marquard's Letters from a Boer Parsonage

Letters of Margaret Marquard during the Boer War

Frontispiece of Margaret Marquard who wrote a daily account of the happenings at their farm in Winburg when the Boer War began in the form of letters to her mother at Stellenbosch. These letters described the events that impinged on her life, eg. British and Boer prisoners passing through Winburg; martial law, refugee camp as well as the humour and pathos in the situation.