James Edward Carlyle to Frederick Chesson, 3 August 1885

London 96 Gloucester Crescent

Hyde Park W 3 Aug 85

Dear Sir,

In reply to your invitation I shall with great pleasure join your deputation at the Colonial Office Downing Street at a quarter to four o clock on Wednesday next. I do not know a more important occasion than to support Sir C Warren in the formation of a Bechuana Crown Colony stretching up to the Zambezi. The Cape Colony is quite incapable of undertaking so great a charge and … I should entirely demur to allowing a colony to have this power over natives unless they were admitted to the franchise. That may come but they are not yet …

Yours faithfully

JE Carlyle