SMUTS, JAN CHRISTIAAN. (1870-1950). South African leader. Typed Letter Signed, “J.C. Smuts,” on crested and imprinted Union of South Africa, Prime Minister’s Office letterhead. One full page, folio. Cape Town, May 14, 1920. Written in bottom blank margin in another hand: “Another signature of Gen. Smuts for the autograph collection. With love, yours, Ernie. 4 Aug. 20. Enclosed are also some stamps for the philatelist. EN.” Very fine condition. To “His Excellency, Major-General Sir Edward Northey, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Protectorate of British East Africa, Nairobi.” Smuts writes:

“Your Excellency, Bearer hereof, the Revd. W. Wilkinson Rider, has been delegated together with the Revd. Martin J. White and Mr. Charles Baker by the Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of South Africa to visit East Africa with a view to establishing a Mission in that Territory. Revd. Wilkinson Rider has been labouring in South Africa for many years and I would be glad if his movements could be facilitated as far as your regulations allow. Yours sincerely, J.C. Smuts, Prime Minister.”

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