THE LATE COLONEL HENDERSON AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOER
WAR.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,--In the review of the " German Official Account of the War in South Africa" which appeared in your issue of the 24th ult. you mention a rumour that the preliminary chapters of the history of the war entrusted by his Majesty's Government to the late Colonel Henderson " showed the ungarbled truth to be so unpalatable that the late Govern- ment absolutely forbade their publication, and went so far as to have the entire manuscript burned." Your reviewer appears to be under a misapprehension in thinking that before his death Colonel Henderson had written a considerable portion of the history of the war. Indeed, I have reason to believe that, up to the time of his death, he had not written one word of statement or criticism for the official history as to any of the military operations of the war, his work being confined to the preliminary chapters dealing with the condi- tions which led up to the war. The tumour thus falls to the
[We are obliged to our correspondent for his correction, which we accept as authoritative, of the rumour mentioned by us..e-En. Spectator.]
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