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Letter from Lt Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade to his father, dated 12 May 1848 Parkes Hotel Cape Town; the voyage had taken 77 days: ‘Sir Harry {Smith} kindly invited me to dinner last evening ... and introduced us to his lady, telling her that his heart always warmed at the sight of a green jacket’. From a collection of letters to England from Captain Henry Clifford of the Rifle Brigade while serving in Cape Colony, 1848-1853.