Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrik, 1894-1948 Professor of Classics, Principal and Vice
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Letters to 'My Dear Sir', 1865-1866. 2 items. ALS.
Letter, 16 Sep. 1865, Cape Town, discussing the cost of a weekly post to Natal using native runners, the subsidy to Damas who is expected to succeed Chief Faku and the fact that the Basuto War was an unnecessary evil; letter, 20 Sep. 1866, Cape Town,
62 giving the news that Adam Kok is in Cape Town but that his intentions are not yet known.
GREY, Sir George, 1812-1898 (Governor of Cape Colony, 1854-1859).
Lettter, 1857 March 13, King Williams Town. 4p. ALS.
Requests copies of early missionary publications to help him acquire a complete collection of works published in the South African native dialects.
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MERRIMAN, John Xavier, 1841-1926 (Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1908-1910).
Letters, 1902-1907. 2 items. ALS.
Letter, 20 Oct. 1902, Cape Town, to W. de Meillon, on the Compensation Bill; letter, 27 Jul. 1907, Cape Town, on the amnesty and the vindictiveness which Jameson was showing to the Dutch.
A489 PURCHAS, Thomas Alfred Rufus (Chairman, Rand Water Board and M.L.C.).
Papers, 1909-1910. 24 items.
Notes, articles and letters on sociology, race problems and theosophy.
A515f RIVERSDALE. Inhabitants.
Letter, 1860 Jan. 13, Riversdale, to John Fairbairn and Henry White. 5p. Ms.
Address of welcome to their representatives in the House of Assembly, thanking them for their services not only in parliament but also to the colony as a whole. The signatures include those of P.B. Borcherds and J. Rose Innes. Badly charred.
A516f SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902.
Telegram, 1900 Jun. 9. 3l. Cyclostyled.
Copy of a telegram dispatched by Begg's News Agency from Lourenco Marques, giving the news of the taking of Pretoria.
A517
FREEMASONRY.
Records, 1831-1919. 34 items.
Miscellaneous documents including a scrap-book compiled by the Rev. C.W. Barnett Clarke which contains such items as invitations to functions, certificates and pamphlets.
A519f AMERICAN ZULU MISSION.
'Umoya o dabukisiwe'. 17p. Ms.
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A translation in Zulu of the tract The spirit grieved. Also the printed versions of the tract in English and Zulu.
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Subscription list for the proposed Cape of Good Hope Steam Navigation Company, 1836. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms. Damaged.
Announced a meeting for 15 June 1836 and includes amongst the signatures J.E. Alexander, J.C. Chase, A. Chiappini, B.J. Ebden and J. Fairbairn.
A521f REICHELT, Rev. G. Th.
The literary works of the foreign missionaries of the Moravian church. 4l. Ts (Carbon copy).
Lists printed works of the Moravian mission in South Africa, mainly produced at the mission printing press in Genadendal. Translated and annotated by Bishop Edmund de Schweinitz and reprinted from the Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society.
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CRAWFORD, Rev. Daniel, 1870-1926 (Missionary).
Letters, 1911-1924. 19 items. Printed.
Circular letters from Luanza Mission in the Belgian Congo, describing the work of the mission.
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Receipt for duties on the sale of the hull, rigging and stores of a condemned French ship, 1836 Dec. 16. 1p. D. signed by W. Field, Collector of H.M. Customs. Charred.
Countersigned by F. de Lettre, French consul-agent in Cape Town.
A527f CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Certificate of employment and discharge of James Allen, Ship's carpenter at the Dock Yard, 1814 Dec. 3. 1p. D. signed by the Master Storekeeper, Master Attendant and Master Shipwright. Damaged.
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ARNOT, Frederick Stanley, 1858-1914 (Missionary and explorer).
Papers, 1881-1915. 9 items.
Photocopy of a diary, Jul. 19-Aug. 20, 1881, 38p., kept during Arnot's first voyage to Africa, printed pamphlets containing extracts from his diaries and letters and articles on Arnot.
Original of the diary is in the possession of Miss R. Arnot, Johannesburg.
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MANUSCRIPT novel, 19th century. 373l.
A romantic novel about an orphan girl, a clergyman and a young doctor who succumbs to the temptations of drink and evil living. On the fly-leaf is the signature Mrs. James Bell, who was the mother of F.W. Bell amongst whose papers this novel was found.
A530f QUORN, J.C.
Prospector's licence No. 1199 issued by the British South Africa Company, 1891 Jun. 17. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms. Signed by A.R. Colquhoun, first Administrator of the Company.
The licence permitted Quorn to prospect in Mashonaland.
A531f CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Deed of sale, in Dutch, of land, 1822 Aug. 23. 2p. Printed form completed in Ms. Seal attached.
Contract between H.W. Lategan and J.H.C. Kok, J.E. Kok and W.J. Conradie. Signed by H.W. Lategan in the presence of P.G. Brink and two delegates of the Court of Justice.
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MILLIN, Sarah Gertrude, 1889-1968 (Author).
Papers, 1903-1968. 60 boxes.
Includes correspondence which consists of family letters, letters received over a period of about forty years from personal friends, publishers and other business correspondents and some drafts and originals of letters written by S.G. Millin.
Manuscripts, typescripts and research notes for some of her books, short stories, articles, reviews and of projected and unpublished works. There are stage, radio and film versions of some of her novels. A large number of loose press clippings and 8 scrap-books; two of these relate to the trial of Daisy Louisa de Melker in 1932 for the murder of two former husbands and her son, one contains reviews by S.G. Millin and the remainder contain contemporary reviews of her books.
Unpublished inventory available.
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Circular to the widow C.H. Hertzog re the administration of her husband's estate from Clerke Burton, Master of the Supreme Court, 1842 Jun. 24. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms.
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PRETORIUS, Marthinus Wessels, 1819-1901 (First President of the South African Republic).
Title deed, in Dutch, of land belonging to M.W. Pretorius in Potchefstroom,
65 1868 Dec. 19. 1p. D. signed by M.W. Pretorius, State President, and J.J. Meintjes, Registrar of Deeds, Pretoria.
A548f NEDERLANDSCHE OOST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE.
Letter, in Dutch, 1633 Mar. 25, from J. Speck, Table Bay, to the Administrators of the Dutch East India Company, Rotterdam. 3p. ALS.
Supports the claim of passenger, Samuel Jan H. van Nimmegen, to be paid wages for acting as steersman on board the 'Prins Willem' from Batavia to Table Bay; van Nimmegen was an old employee of the Company, fallen from favour because his ship had been captured by the Portuguese and sunk.
A549f CAPE COPPER MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).
Shipping advice for goods shipped on the 'Clippin' from Hondeklip Bay to Table Bay, consigned to E.J.M. Syfret, 1866 Mar. 27. Printed form, completed in Ms. Signed by R. Carstens, Master.
Bears the design of a sailing ship, with underneath it 'Saul Solomon & Co., Steam Printing Office'.
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SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Deeds of transfer, in Dutch, of land in Lichtenburg, from H.A. Greeff to E.J. Visser and from E.J. Visser to P.J. Kachelhoffer, 1870 Sep. 8. 2 items.
Signed by J.J. Meintjes, Registrar of Deeds, Pretoria.
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COLLETT, James.
'Licence to traffic with the Caffres at Fort Willshire', 1828 Jul. 28. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms.
Signed by D. Campbell, Civil Commissioner for Albany and Somerset.
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CIVIL COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Grahamstown.
Licence No. 61 authorising the issue of 48lbs gunpowder to several individuals, 1826 Mar. 8. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms. Charred.
Signed by D. Campbell, Civil Commissioner.
A553f FORT BEAUFORT.
Pass issued to Fingo male to fetch his family from Uitenhage, 1838 Nov. 19, 1p. Printed form completed in Ms.
Signed by G. Mole, Justice of the Peace, Fort Beaufort.
A554f
INKANYISO YASE NATAL.
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Publication licence or certificate issued to Messrs B. Kumalo and J.H. Tshange, Pietermaritzburg, proprietors of Inkanyiso Yase Natal, 1885 Jun. 5. 1p. Printed form completed in Ms.
Signed by C. Bird, Principal Under Secretary.
A555 FREED, Louis Franklin, 1903-1979 (Lecturer in Social Medicine).
Ms notes for his D. Litt. thesis entitled 'R.F.A. Hoernlé: a critical analysis of his contributions to philosophy', presented to the University of South Africa, Pretoria, 1965. 12 items.
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LAS CASES, Emmanuel Augustin Dieudonné Marin Joseph de, Comte,
1766-1842 (French official and writer, secretary to Napoleon at St. Helena).
Letters intercepted from St. Helena 1816. 4 items. Photocopies of Mss.
Two letters written on silk by Las Cases's son at his father's dictation; one of 1 Aug. 1816 to Prince Lucien Buonaparte is incomplete and gives an account of the voyage to St. Helena and of Napoleon's health and manner of living. The second of 10 Nov. 1816 to Lady Clavering complains of the rigours of their life on St. Helena. Also an Ms letter signed by the Comte de Las Cases, recommending his valet, James Scott, to Lady Clavering and an Ms business letter to Monsieur Packette, signed by Las Cases's son for his father. These letters were sewn into the waistcoat of Las Cases's valet, James Scott, but they were discovered by the governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, who banished the Comte de Las Cases to the Cape of Good Hope for this indiscretion.
Originals are in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg.
A557f BARNARD, Lady Anne, 1750-1825 (Poet and letter-writer; wife of Andrew Barnard, Colonial Secretary at the Cape 1797-1802).
Letter, 1801 May 23, Cape of Good Hope, to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville, London. 6p. Photocopy of ALS.
Gossips about Cape personalities, including the late Governor, Sir George Yonge.
Original is in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg.
A558f MOODIE, Lt. Donald, 1794-1861 (1820 Settler and South African historian).
Letter, 1820 Nov. 20, Cape Town to Benjamin Moodie, Groote Vaders Bosch, Swellendam. 3p. Photocopy of ALS.
Gives family news and announces his arrival in South Africa.
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SPEKE, John Hanning, 1827-1864 (Explorer).
Letter to Walter Brun. 4p. Photocopy of ALS.
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Rejoices that Brun agrees with him that the Nyanza Lake is the true source of the White Nile and announces his intention to embark on a third expedition to Africa to settle the source of the Nile.
Original is in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg.
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THOMPSON, George, 1796-1889 (Cape merchant, traveller and author).
Letter, 1847 June 23, Cape Town, to Thomas Maclear, Lily Fountain, Kamies Berg, Namaqualand. 5p. Photocopy of ALS.
Gives news of frontier war against Africans and of the impending arrival of Sir H. Pottenger who is to succeed Sir Peregrine Maitland as governor.
Original is in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg.
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GREAT BRITAIN. Court of Army Court Martial (Cape of Good Hope). Fol.
'List of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates tried by General Courtsmartial from the date of the capture of the colony to the 30th October 1798'. 6p. Document signed by R. McNab, D.I.A.
Supplies information of rank, name, regiment and result of the trial including such sentences as 1500 lashes, death and transportation to Botany Bay.
A563 ZULU WAR 1879.
Treaties entered into by Sir Garnet Wolseley with the Zulu chiefs individually at Ulundi, Fort Cambridge, Conference Hill and Pietermaritzburg September to October 1879, by which they acknowledged a British victory and accepted chieftainships under the British crown. Supplementary conditions were explained to Sibebu by the British resident, Zululand and agreed to at Mhlazatyi; 5 January 1883. 14 Mss.
Signatories include Sir Garnet Wolseley, Sir T. Shepstone, John Dunn, M. Osborn and the Zulu chiefs amongst whom were Faku, Hlubi and Gaozi.
A564f NEDERLANDSCHE OOST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE
Fragments of a Dutch East India Company cash book, 'Casteel de Goede Hoop', 1698 Feb. 4. 8p. Ms.
A565 HODGSON, Rev. Thomas Laidman, 1787-1850 (Wesleyan Missionary).
Journal, 1819 July 17-1841 June 21. 1306p. Hg.
Describes his journey to South Africa in 1821 and the difficulties he met at Maquassi mission station in the Western Transvaal, where he tried to convert the Barolong and Griquas to Christianity and to teach them the elements of agriculture. Also covers the years he spent in missionary work in Cape Town.
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Extracts from the 1821-1831 part of this diary have been published in Journals of the Rev. T.L. Hodgson, Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1977.
A566 WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Letters from missionaries in South Africa, 1821-1829. 37 items. Photocopies of ALS.
Includes letters from S. Broadbent, E. Edwards T. Hodgson, S. Kay and G. Sass to the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Mission, London. Also letters from Rev. R. Moffat to Dr. J. Philip and Rev. R. Miles. The letters describe the efforts of the
missionaries to overcome native superstition, to learn and translate into the native languages and their setbacks due to inter-tribal warfare.
Originals are with the Methodist Missionary Society, London.
Unpublished inventory available.
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SYMONS COLLECTION.
Papers, 1821-1939. 15 items. Photocopies of Hgs.
Letters sent by Mrs. Anne Hodgson, wife of the missionary T.L. Hodgson, to her sisters and mother in England. These letters cover the years 1821-1829 and describe the difficulties they experienced in their missionary work. Hg extracts from T.L. Hodgson's Journal for the period 4-13 Mar. 1841 giving an account of a visit to the Rhenish institution at Ebenezer and to a Boer household in the Karoo. Also a notebook of T.L. Hodgson containing family records and extracts from the letters of missionaries. A printed obituary notice of T.L. Hodgson, in front cover of the Memoir of Rev. T.L. Hodgson and a page from the Week End Advertiser, 31 Dec. 1927, relating how Maquassi mission was founded and how the first white child in the Transvaal was born there. A letter, 9 Jan. 1939, from T.S. Leask to Mrs. Symons, telling how he had discovered the site of old Maquassi with the help of an aged Bushman. The "Journal of an expedition to the Zoola country in the year 1849" by John and Joseph Archbell and James E. Methley describes a journey, 11 Jan.-5 Mar. 1849, to the Zulu royal kraal with details of the scenery they saw, the difficulties they met in fording rivers and the delights of hunting.
Originals with R. Symons, P.O. Sweetwaters, Natal.
Inventory available.
A568f MACQUARRIE, L.
Extract from Journal, 1788 June 13-18. 1l. Ts transcript.
Describes a visit to the Cape of Good Hope where several visitors came on board his ship the 'Dublin' including Lt. Bligh of the 'Bounty', Mr. van Carman, Mr. Mason, a botanist sent out to gether specimens in Africa and Colonel Gordon,
69 Commandant of the Dutch troops at the Cape.
Original is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
A569f CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Letters, 1795-1802. 19 items. Ts transcripts.
Letters from Dutch farmers, translated itno English, to General J.H. Craig, complaining that the Hottentot cattle are trespassing on their land; letter, 4 Oct. 1798, from the London Missionary Society to Lord Macartney, asking help in founding a mission; letters from Moravian missionaries to successive governors requesting help and complaining of infringements by local farmers: report, 17 Feb. 1802, by M. Gie to General F. Dundas, giving details of land round Baviaans Kloof.
1803.
A570f JACOBSON, E. (Director of Mining Co.)
'History of the first drill in the Orange Free State on the farm 'Aandenk' Odendaalrus area', 1957. 15 items.
Includes statement tracing the history of Wit. Extensions Ltd. from 1933-1943 and copies of documents referred to in the statement.
A574f YONGE, Sir George, 1731-1812 (Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
1799-1801).
Letter, 1799 Apr.9, Stratford Place, to Monsieur le Viscomte de Vaux. 2p. ALS.
In French, declaring that Yonge knows nothing about an Abbé Young, whose name is not even the same as hiw own. He returns papers on Mauritius, with which the government of the Cape of Good Hope is not at all concerned and feels that there is no need for him to enter a subscription as he can purchase the book when it comes up for public sale. Hopes that the Comte de Fouchécour (Courtenay) has a passport as otherwise he will not be allowed to land at the Cape of Good Hope. Download 5.1 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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