LETTERS AND DIARY OF LIEUTENANT G.E.S. SALT DURING THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

119 pages, frontispiece portrait, map,  1 plate – a photograph of the author’s grave at Modderspruit,  original vellum back and grey paper covered  boards, titled gilt on upper cover and back, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt  others uncut, light foxing on the tissue guards,  a very good copy unusual in the dust jacket  (chipped with some loss at the top of the spine and now protected in a Brodart  cover).

Inscribed on front free end paper, ‘With  very kind regard from Thos. Salt, March 1903.’ The Preface is by Thomas A. Salt,  Captain, 11th Hussars, the editor and the author’s father.

South  African Bibliography, volume 4, page 122, three copies  listed.

Hackett (R.G.) South African War Books, An Illustrated Bibliography, page 27,  'Extracts from the letters and diary of Lieut. Salt of the 1st Batt. Royal  Welch Fusiliers chiefly relating events in Natal from Oct. 1899 to April 1900.  Salt witnessed the battle of Colenso and reports comprehensively of other  engagements in operations about the Tugela. Most of the correspondence pertains  to military matters with some criticism expressed in respect of General Buller.  Soon after the relief of Ladysmith the writer was taken ill with enteric fever,  He died at the base hospital near Modder Spruit on April 3rd, 1900. The last  two letters are addressed to his father from an officer of the regiment'.