Bosman's blunders and other editorial errors
CRAIG MACKENZIE · Scrutiny2 · 2006
The chance discovery of a letter written by HC Bosman to Roy Campbell in 1949 complaining about the poor state in which Mafeking Road had appeared in its first two editions prompted a re-editing of the text. In the process it became clear that Bosman played as significant a role in the introduction of errors into the text as later editors. This article examines the details of this rather odd turn of events and advances reasons for the aggregation of errors that dogged Mafeking Road for over fifty years.