Pretoria,
March 13, 1902.
Your Honour,
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of Your Honour's letter of the 10th March, and to inform Your Honour that I shall be pleased to allow the safe conduct you ask for.
I shall be obliged if Your Honour would inform me of the number you propose to bring with you, and that you will send in to Balmoral a day in advance, so that an officer whom I shall designate for the purpose may meet Your Honour and see that all proper arrangements are made for your reception.
I shall order my troops immediately to withdraw from the neighbourhood in which Your Honour now is, and inform them of the safe conduct that is hereby given to Your Honour.
I have the honour to be,
Your Honour's obedient servant,
Kitchener, General,
Commanding-in-Chief South Africa.
To His Honour, Mr. S. W. Burger.
Before making use of the opportunity thus obtained of meeting President Steyn, the Government of the South African Republic considered it necessary to ascertain where President Steyn with his Government was, so that he might be informed that the Transvaal Government, under safe conduct from Lord Kitchener, was en route to meet him and his Government. In the following letter Acting-President Burger requested Lord Kitchener to transmit the following telegram to President Steyn:—
To His Excellency Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the British Troops, Pretoria.
Government Lager,
In the Veld, S.A.R.,
March 17, 1902.