Confidential Notes regarding Zulu Headmen.

Pietermaritzburg: Printed by P. Davis & Sons,, 1879. Detailed intelligence issued shortly before Isandlwana First and only edition, unrecorded institutionally, this the only copy known. "This small pamphlet contains considerable detail on its subject: 'Compiled from information obtained from the most reliable sources, and published by direction of the Lieut.-General Commanding [Lord Chelmsford] for the information of those under his command'" (Raugh). The brief but informative notes are followed by a tabulation of the headmen detailing their father, age, regiment, tribe, principal residence, and finally remarks expanding on the notes as to the number of men they command, their relationships to Cetewayo, and status within the Zulu political and military structure. Provenance: Pencilled inscription to the front panel of the wrappers of "Major Grenfell, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, 14.1.79", this was Francis Wallace Grenfell (1841-1925), 60th Rifles, later field-marshal lord Grenfell and commander at Suakin and Toski in the Mahdist War. Grenfell had gone out to South Africa in 1874, and was aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Cunnynghame, commander-in-chief; he saw action at Quntana in the Xhosa War of 1878, and in the Anglo-Zulu War at Ulundi, having witnessed the aftermath of the debacle at Isandlwana, remarking that "officers and men behaved splendidly - dying back to back - and at the last rallying round the colours, not a man of the regulars attempted to escape till all was lost" (Emery, p. 106). Part of lot 421, Quentin Keynes Sale, Christie's 8 April 2004. Octavo, pp. 6; 4 double-page tables on 5 leaves. Sewn in original printed pink paper wrappers. Some "service wear", wrappers soiled and rubbed, mildly damp cockled, back panel with vertical crease where once folded back and consequent soiling to the last blank page, contents with pale toning and lightly rippled at the edges from atmospheric damp, overall very good. Raugh 575. Frank Emery, The Red Soldier: Letters from the Zulu War, 1879, 1977.