South Africa General Mission

The cover was sent to Mrs. Head in Wimbledon on 15^th August 1900 from Wellington, Cape of Good Hope [Cape Colony]. Annotated at top centre is "E.C.W. Miss Murray South Af-" is the name of the addressee, Miss Helen Murray, Daughter of the Rev. Andrew Murray (Snr.).

In 1876, Helen (Ellie) Murray was at the Midland Seminary opened at Graff-Reinet in Cape Colony. She was a former Huguenot seminary pupil, and later worked for some forty years, training young mothers in the vast parish of Graff-Reinet.

References
Plessis, J. du, The Life of Andrew Murray of South Africa, South Afrian, pp.32, 251, 271, 399.

Woolgar, J., (2010), The "Mrs. Head" correspondence, The Transvaal Philatelist, Vol.45, No.3 (176), November 2010, England, p.86.