Letter from Percy Day to his mother, c/o J Littlewoods, Salt River, Cape Colony, 26 Nov 1902.
Day is writing to try and get a job in Johannesburg, he is now at the Savoy Hotel. he writes that the bed bugs were bad the first night.
He also writes about Cape Town unemployment and people at the docks trying to work their passage back as they are stony broke.
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).