My dear Colonel Somerset,
My work on Kaffirland, which I had the honour to dedicate to you in
1848, having gone through two editions, I should consider this abstract
narrative incomplete without your name. Permit me, then, to inscribe
this little book to you, in testimony of that admiration for your public
services which all must feel who have benefited by them, as well as in
remembrance of much kindness to
Your obliged and faithful friend,
Harriet Ward.
Dover, _March_, 1851.
Note. Since this was written Colonel Somerset has been awarded the
local rank of Major-General by Sir Harry Smith.