Folder of 30 (as numbered) letters to his mother 5 Oct 1899 to 10 Jul 1900; the earlier letters elaborate on the diary entires; he gives his views on people and events very forthrightly; he left hospital at the end of March 1900 and moved to Bloemfontein, where he was in hospital again with fever on 21 Apr; 14 May he moved to 14 Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfotein for convalescence; 10 Jul he wrote that he was to return home on the ‘Bavarian’.
1 of 8 bound manuscript diaries and 6pp photocopies written and compiled by Maj Wilfrid (also spelled Wilfred) Lionel Foster DSO, Royal Artillery, Boer War 1899-1902, and Somaliland Campaign 1903.