It is our pleasure that you publish the letter on your website. It is reproduced with permission of the Trustees of the Alphen Archive.Henry Cloete, CMG of Alphen was my great great grand father and the owner of Alphen at the time the letter was written in 1913 (not 1813). Apart from being a farmer of distinction, he was a advocate and had been a member of the Cape Legislative Assembly. During his time at the Pretoria Bar he had the distinction being appointed British Agent to the Kruger Republic and represented the British Governments interests for a period after the withdrawal of their diplomatic representatives. For this Queen Victoria awarded him the CMG. Alex Cloete – Hopkins (Nov 2009)
A lobby / petion letter to Parliament in September 1913, by Henry Cloete, the owner of the Alphen Estate, about the afforestation on the Table Mountain and the Peninsula.