August 1901
Manuscript, kept by Isie Smuts while detained under house arrest in Pietermaritzburg during the Second Boer War.
”Despite her wish to be held with other women in the nearby concentration camp, Smuts and her party lived in a house. They frequently visited the camp to console the inmates and bring them items they had knitted.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isie_Smuts
This is a fragile item and unusual to have survived.

Sybella (Isie) Margaretha Smuts nee Krige, also known as Ouma Smuts (22 December 1870-23 February 1954) was the second First Lady of the Union of South Africa, and a teacher, farmer, charity organiserand scrapbooker.She grew up in the British Cape Colony and qualified as a teacher in 1891. She taught for six years before marrying Jan Smuts, who later became the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.

R100,000.