- Title
- Letters of Charles Butler, 1943
- Subject
- Butler, Charles, 1864-1949 -- Correspondence Butler, Marion Grace, 1899-1979 -- Correspondence
- Date Issued
- 1943
- Date
- 1943
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/34933
- Identifier
- vital:24299
- Identifier
- This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Identifier
- MS 20 064.12
- Description
- Charles Butler, 1864-1949, wrote letters to family members, mostly his children, between 1932 until his death in 1949. During these years travelling with his wife, visiting family members in Kroonstad, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Vryburg and also went on holiday trips. Their permanent address was 34 Dundas Street, Cradock, where they lived until the death of his wife, Mary Emma Butler, 1862-1947, who died in 1947. He then moved and stayed with his daughter Grace and her family in Kroonstad, 47 Reitz Street. During this time Charles and Grace visited relatives in Vryburg, Cape Province. Towards the end of 1948 when Charles's health deteriorated they stayed with family in Uitenhage to be close to the doctors and hospital. Charles Butler was buried in Cradock with his wife.
- Format
- Relation
- Butler Family Photograph Collection
- Rights
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images, apply to Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
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