Identity area
Reference code
Harman/I/5
Unique identifier
GB 275 Harman/I/5
Title
To 'my dear Home folk'
Date(s)
- 28 May 1900 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(1869-1945)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
No. 2 General Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Colony. His painting of sunrise over Cape Town. The elegant Mount Nelson Hotel. Military orders. Ugly locals. Disembarkation. Wynberg is a beautiful place. In No. 2 Hospital galvanised iron huts are replacing tents. 1300 patients there, mostly with enteric fever or dysentery. Fine facilities. Rumours of an impending move north. He now has charge of the Convalescent Division, which is 'no joke' with over 560 patients. Living in a bell tent with ingenious camp furniture. The discomforts of a wild storm. The local English Church is nice - an excellent Sunday sermon from the vicar, a Cambridge man.