Letters from John Robert Dunn 1880-1881

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Letters from John Robert Dunn 1880-1881

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb162-mss.afr.r.260

2 ff. (with transcriptions)

eng,

The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

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Dunn John Robert ? 1833-1895

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Cetewayo, King of Zululand, approximately 1826-1884

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John Robert Dunn

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John Robert Dunn was born in Port Alfred, South Africa in ca.1833, son of Robert Newton Dunn and Ann Biggar, and in 1836 the family moved from Port Alfred to Port Natal. In 1847 Dunn's father was killed and, after his mother's death in circa 1851, Dunn and his brother and sisters moved to Cape Colony. In 1856 Dunn took part in the battle of Ndondakusuka, where he fought on Mbulazi's side against Cetewayo. On a later hunting expedition in Zululand Dunn met Cetewayo for th...