Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA A26
Title
Sarah Anne Le Mesurier, Diary
Date(s)
- 19 April 1836 - 26 May 1843 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
Holograph, bound, 83 pages
Context area
Name of creator
(1800s)
Biographical history
Sarah Anne Le Mesurier was the widow of James Morley and wife of Augustus Smith Le Mesurier, who was Captain in the Bombay Native Infantry. She died on the 24 April 1844 of cholera in Colaba, India.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
In her diary she describes social activities in India and at the Cape of Good Hope. 44 pages relate to the Cape, where she was married on 19 April 1836, and where she and her husband stayed for two periods from 22 April to the 22 September 1836 and again from 9 February 1839 to the 17 September 1840.