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EBOOK SELECTED OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS ***
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Selected
Official Documents
OF THE
South African Republic
AND
Great Britain.
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A documentary perspective of the causes of the war in South Africa.
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EDITED BY
HUGH WILLIAMS, M.A., B.L.S.,
_Library of Congress_,
AND
FREDERICK CHARLES HICKS, Ph.B.,
_Library of Congress_.
PREFACE.
The universal interest in the affairs of the South African Republic is
responsible for the idea that a selection of documents illustrative of
the South African controversy will be appreciated by American readers.
The documents which are here reprinted are by no means unobtainable;
but, to the general reader, they have been hitherto quite inaccessible.
Only the largest public libraries have the proper sources of
information, and even with these books at hand the student has been
forced to delve in a mass of irrelevant material for the hidden object
of his desire.
The present compilation has been made in the hope of meeting the
immediate demands of the public. To avoid cumbersomeness, many important
documents have necessarily been omitted; yet as far as possible, the
editors have given a complete series of documents.
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