Your Excellency,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's letter of the 13th inst.
I thank Your Excellency for consenting to our travelling through Your Excellency's lines, and also for the order given to your troops to immediately withdraw from the neighbourhood where I at present am, and for the notice given them of the safe conduct extended to us.
In order to obviate delay I respectfully request Your Excellency to transmit the enclosed telegram to President Steyn, and to put me in possession of His Honour's reply thereto, on receipt of which I shall immediately inform Your Excellency a day in advance, as requested by you, of the time when we shall arrive at Balmoral.
Pending the receipt of Your Excellency's reply we shall remain at Roodepoort, near Rhenosterkop.
I have the honour to be,
Your Excellency's obedient servant,
S. W. Burger,
Acting State President.
Telegram.
From S. W. Burger,
Acting State President,
Rhenosterkop, distr. Pretoria.
To His Honour President Steyn,
In the Veld.
With reference to confidential Memoranda exchanged between the Netherlands Minister and Lord Lansdowne, which correspondence was kindly sent to me by His Excellency Lord Kitchener, I with the members of my Government, wish to proceed to meet you. For that purpose a safe conduct has been granted to us by Lord Kitchener. Be so good as to inform me as soon as possible where and when such meeting can take place.