Letters from a Boer Parsonage: Letters of Margaret Marquard During the Boer War

When the Second Boer War began in 1899, the Rev. J.J.T. Marquard, Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Orange Free State, and his family were living in the parsonage at Winburg, a small town some sixty miles west of Bloemfontein. Four days after war broke out, Marquard's wife, Margaret, began to record day-to-day happenings at Winburg in the form of letters to her mother at Stellenbosch and her husband on commando. This volume is an edited compilation of those letters.