1835 Nov 24. Buxton to Anna Gurney describing the effect her work on the Kaffir case had had in the Colonial Office and his great pride in her. …
1835; Gale Group;
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pp 81-88 1835 Nov 24. Buxton to Anna Gurney describing the effect her work on the Kaffir case had had in the Colonial Office and his great pride in her. He informs her that he had discussed with Lord Glenelg, Sir George Grey and James Stephen the situation in the Cape and the commando system. They had told him they would restore the country to its owners, acknowledge the error of the Government, appoint Stockenstrom as Deputy Governor on the frontier and prohibit entry by armed men into Kaffirland. James Stephen had been inspired to inquire into all the evidence the Colonial Office possessed on aborigines and was to issue orders for the appointment of Protectors of Aborigines in every colony. All this he attributes to the statement written by her though signed by himself, to the lies they had exposed and the injustice revealed. He asks her to send certain papers to Andrew Johnston for him. He tells her that he was going to the Methodist [Missionary Society] office that morning to induce them to retract a letter written by Shrewsbury, which he describes as more wicked than the address to D'Urban, and repudiate the writer of it by threatening to withdraw his subscription to the Society. He reports on a satisfactory meeting on slavery at Lushington's the previous evening, the improvement in Priscilla's health, that he was returning by the Mail on Friday, that he had seen Gatty, and that he thought, from his agent's report, that he would be defeated in the next election at Weymouth. He asks her to let Hannah, Joseph John Gurney and William Forster see the letter. Priscilla Johnston adds a letter of her own to Anna Gurney saying that she thought her marriage [resulting in her no longer being her father's right hand] was an act of providence to bring Anna Gurney into the field of labour. She reports on Buxton's high humour at the outcome of their exertions, his opinion of Lord Glenelg and Edward's view that the Government was [in full support of] the Agency. Finally she adds that she was delighted that their work could have such an outcome and that, though she could not be entirely free of envy and jealousy of her aunt, she was very pleased that her father had such a helper.
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