Letter from Percy Day to his mother, Market Hotel, Sir Lowry Road, Cape Town, 28 October 1902.
The letter describes the voyage out, passengers’ fight with the Portuguese at St Vincent, the hotel he is staying at, ‘a dirty hole’ and unemployment in Cape Town.
The letter is incomplete.
From a collection of letters and other papers of Sgt Percy Day, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), part of the 21st Bn Imperial Yeomanry while serving in the Boer War during 1901-1902, and afterwards as a settler in Cape Colony, 1902-1904.
Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).