20 Cockspur Street
Charing Cross SW

March 6 1884

Dear Sir,

Moroka had just gone when your note reached me this morning, but we have written to try and catch him at Plymouth tomorrow. I had warned him to be very careful in what he said until he know the memorial had been sent. Mr Blyth’s illness is most inopportune for Moroka, if it delays the forwarding of the memorial. They quite understood about waiting at Cape Town until you could communicate to them through Mr Silberbauer that they might start for Bloemfontein. I do not know whether they expressed it in words to you, but they felt deeply grateful for all you had done for them, a gratitude in which my family and I (Samuel’s friends of over 20 years) share too.

Believe me dear Sir,
Yours very faithfully,
Richard O. Whitfield

C.F. Chesson Esq