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ZA HPRA A82
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Bertram Nicholson Papers
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- 1890-1933 (Creation)
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66 items
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Correspondence, press clippings, notes, printed items and typescripts on the history and ethnology of Swaziland. A Ts entitled 'The romance of Swaziland some hitherto unwritten chapters of its history' (35p.) by W.C. Penfold. Material on iron smelting, the use of bronze and brass in Swaziland and on the Swazi migration to Rhodesia.
Names of correspondents include P. Belleze, J.G. Gubbins, A.W. Hoernle, W.C. Penfold, L. Peringuey and F.W.T. Posselt. There is a contemporary copy of a message from Sir Henry Loch, High Commissioner for South Africa, 5 Sep. 1890, congratulating the Swazi King on his accession.
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