Natal Witness 18th May 1881
Mr Gorst asked the Under secretery of State for the Colonies, the other night, whether a joint letter of condolance on the recent disasters to the British arms in the Transvaal, containing advice as to the further prosection of the war, had been addressed to Her Majesty by Cetywayo and Langalibalela, and whether the interests of the public service would allow of this letter being laid upon the table of the House. Mr Grant-Duff said that such a letter was in existance, and it was a very remarkable one - speaking as it did of the death of soldiers as a soldier should, gravely and seriously. There would be some advantage in the hon-member taking a lesson from its tone.