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Impala Farm

P.O. Box 92, Nanyuki

Kenya Colony

British East Africa

January 4, 1961

TO:

The Undergraduate Secretary

The Ivy Club

Prospect St.

Princeton University

Princeton, N.J.

U.S.A.

Sir,

The American Consulate out here has asked all resident Americans to rally around, and do something about the university students from the States who arrive here on their holidays with no contacts, and want to see the country, do some shooting, exploring, mountain climbing, etc., and need a base that wouldn’t use up their spare cash!

As I’m Princeton and Ivy ’40, thought I would let charity begin at home, and drop you a line, and say that I would be delighted to have anyone from the Vine make this their headquarters and stay as long as they like.

This is a 46,000-acre cattle ranch—low veldt—on the equator right beside the snows of Mount Kenya, 16,000 feet high, with the Northern Frontier District and then Abyssinia on the East and North. There is lots of game—elephant—rhino—lion—leopard—hippo—cheetah—giraffe—eland—oryx and all the lesser buck and very good bird shooting. Mt. Kenya is interesting to climb and the game parks in the N.F.D. are excellent.

The native situation is still in hand here except for constant cattle raiding, and this district is as safe as any place in Africa, at the moment, but scarcely carte blanche. We are all well forted up, and armed, and ready to ride out the coming storm. Not trying to scare anyone off but it’s no country to go bicycling or hitch-hiking.

If anyone is interested and coming out, get them to contact me, and I’d be delighted to do what I could. I’m sure the Club is flourishing as always.

Yours sincerely,

Sam Small ’40

P.S. There are quite a few temp. ranch jobs open at this time of year—not necessarily on horseback and not very comfortable if anyone would want that.

S.S.