Kingsville August 13 1901
Captain A. H. King Cape Town.
My dear Arthur.
This is Civic Holiday in this our Town of Kingsville and the Sunday School of our Town keeps the day by an excursion to Belle Isle and I am alone as housekeeper and take this quiet hour to run over to South Africa to see you and say good day on one of the …….. to my old young friend. So far away from his Native home and out of sight of all old familiar faces and loving friends. I say out of sight but not out of our thoughts & memory. We think of you & pray for you and we thank God for preserving you amidst the many & great dangers to which you are exposed in your loyal service to maintain the unity of the British Empire. It is a cause of much thankfulness to Almighty God for His care of you and may He still deep you that you may before long see peace & happiness established in that land where now strife, bloodshed reign.
Our Church & Sunday school are prospering under the Ministration of Rev. Mr. Anderson. A most excellent Paster. Our Congregational Bible Class is not so well attended, as I desire. Some people are very lazy on Sunday morns.
I saw your father & George this morn. Your Father looks well he gave me your address two weeks ago. I have been very negligent in not writing you but I frequently enquire for you. Your sister is spending some of her summer holidays in the old home. She looks happy. Her good man is up often. They were both at Church.
Our Town is improving in business & population. Many new residents since you left. Our families are all well. A good many aged people taken away from our midst this last year. As no doubt you have heard through your friends. Our Kingsville boys all returned from the front but you. You were warmly spoken of at the reception given to the Boys. I have been impressed in seeing the continuance of this struggle that if the Colonial troops, especially the Canadian had stayed on for another year. The war in that land would have terminated ……… in looking once the Map of S.A. I sa , where & in which part is A.K. now. The Children often ask that question. I hope if you can find time from the Boors sniping & guarding against their treachery you will give an account of the localities where you have traveled. The question now on the top is what will the Boors do with Kitchener’s Proclamations by and at the 15th of September.
It was very very kind of you to think of us struggling to get rid of our Church debt and your kind remittance fro that. May you do good as you have opportunity and live for God & Eternity. When you have a little time write a long letter of the doings in that far off land. To your old Sunday School Teacher. It will cheer the heart of your old friend, Jasper Golden
The whole family send kind regards, Alderson Brigade.
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