My dear Daly, I am supervision preparation during the evening stud since our post comes in the afternoon I have just been reading your letter but since I can’t laugh outright in case I spoil the discipline of these children I haven’t enjoyed it at all. Your letter was pleasing but the other made me curse. It was from the Provincial accountant where I had applied for the restoration of my Teacher’s cuts. And do you know what they say Dan? My Marriage Certificate has to be produced – and at such a time of course when I am neither married nor unmarried, in that my Certificate is lying there at the High Court all for nothing. Yet I don’t believe it is there. I have all beliefs it is at Basner’s Office. One day I went to ask for it and the swine Radebe said it was the Court filed and I could never have it unless an application accompanied by 2/6 or something be made. The sum is £2-15 I am told all to be thrown in water because of this infernal bond called marriage. I am sending the letter to you. You may show it to Mr Basner for he won’t believe, and ask him to secure the certificate to be attached to that letter and sent immediately. If it be that its’ really at the High Court, it will involve another hundred years to get it. Please help me Dan and do that dirty job for me. If you can’t succeed, just drop it. That ought to bring Basner to his senses to see just how awkward a situation I am placed in. I suppose even the UCC will be wanting it if I am to take my exams. I never knew marriage should be such a curse to a woman if it is a wrong one. I am really surprised at myself that I seem to be willing still to be bound hands and knees to it. Dash it all! Dan ungayilahli leyon cwadi you can only show Basner but no leave it.
Ngalezin suku bekuthi angibhalele uBasner a nasty rude letter and tell him that he does all this to me because I am black and he is white. He thinks nothing matters with a kaffir, she can wait.
The white girl here is very silly, she has been trying to deliver our post and nurse with the girls say Monday your letter stayed overnight and I got it this morning wasn’t I wild. I told her definitely that I would rather have my post through the boys school to be delivered at once. So this afternoon your letter was sent to me direct. If posted early your letter gets here the next day. This one is stamped 15th 8.45, it came on the 16th here.
Laze lamnandi iphupho lakho, after reading about it my mouth watered for that kiss as though it were real. Am I a Joseph to interpret dreams. I think dear it was just but a manifestation of our love and it seems to spell success. Strange to say you dream about Selby because these days too I have been thinking about him going to tell you that I want to give him the honour of writing the foreword to my Zulu Reader to give it dignity moreso as he is the Member of the Zulu Society, and a student of Sociology. The Zulu book can be prescribed for higher classes as I think the language and the information used is rather too advanced in comparison with the books used in the Primary Intermediate and JC. I am to finish the Zulu book first, then Kufa English and then Kufa in Zulu.
Oh Dan, wasn’t I struck by the simplicity of your confess about all your conversation with Bella. Dan you are really getting to be a buck. Where do you get all these new courage and determination from. I have been wanting all along to thank you for the brave and firm stand put up on my behalf when you were faced by the family at Heidelberg. And now this openness with Bella. You have been a real daring Daniel, my Sweetheart, Gelana is very happy about it. I have always said it that there is a bit of good in my Daly.
Sujakubongela Mfr wase Manyamandeni ngomdlalo wakho no Pondo loyo. Although you haven’t asked for my opinion in this matter. I suggest that instead of putting that pound comfortably in your pocket and forgetting about it you buy a beautiful picture in scenery at one of the Bazaars and that will be the first article for our new home. Keep it safe with Carrol or someone else. If you have eaten that pound please repay it.
Hamba, Dan Manje se upenduke i film star sekuzoba nguwe u Paul Robeson wase sothafilika ‘See’. Kubuye nezelele nobuhle. Wo maye ngakoliseka bokuthatha ngibhekile nje.
Ngiyibonile i poem ka Vilakazi – just a lot of works against arranged in English rhyme with no taste at all. He may write a lot but cannot be our Shakespeare in the true sense. I appreciated another Poem better about Mr Theunisson written by a Mr Kunene. I read both the JC students and they were unanimously of the same opinion. Before I forget when addressing the envelope please write a letter lower the PO stamping machine obliterates the whole name.
Mtaka Twala, in looking for my trousseau as you term it please don’t forget an umbrella of all things, pela ngoba i kam – coat yami yalahleka. I am told this place has terrible rains. Dan, I don’t know why, dear, I feel so easy about my case as though we shall pull through very easily I don’t know why. And for you to go and dream such a flattering dream.
Tell bo Bertha Solomon to make my divorce in particular a test case in Parliament (joke). Pleas send the Bulletin you dirty cockroach – you never acknowledged ‘Christopher and Steve’.
Don’t you worry I am coming to play Tennis for Highlanders and Percy will tell Tshezi to leave off because I am there and that time I shall be playing with Dad. U Connie with quarrels.
Cheerio Dan, yours in love, Reggie.
