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Haggard's father sent him to what is now South Africa to take up an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal.
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It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria in April 1877 for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal.
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He became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, and wrote to his father informing him that he intended to return to England and marry her.
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When Haggard eventually returned to England, he married a friend of his sister, (Mariana) Louisa Margitson.
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Three of his books, The Wizard (1896), Elissa; the Doom of Zimbabwe (1899), and Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu Idyll (1900), are dedicated to Burnham's daughter
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age 68