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English pilot, Extracts

  • ZA HPRA A147
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1785

'Beskrivelse udtaget af den Engelske Peiloth og oversat paa Dansk i aaret ao 1784 & 1785 af Her Fagtoer Woliam til notte for siine landsmend'. 287p. Ms vol.

Extracts from The English PIlot, translated into Danish in 1784 and 1785 by Mr. Fagtoer Woliam for the use of his countrymen.

Papers of John Gaspard Gubbins

  • ZA HPRA A1479
  • Fonds
  • 1877 - 1981

Correspondence, personal documents, biographical notes, memoranda, photographs and a scrap-book relating primarily to the acquisition of his Africana library, its transfer to the University of the Witwatersrand and destruction by fire in 1931 and to his voyage round the world in 1932-1933 to try and make good his losses. Correspondence is mainly with H.R. Raikes, Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, but other correspondents include Sir William Dalrymple, M.W. Gray, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, P.W. Laidler, J.H. Pim and General J.C. Smuts.

Also correspondence of Dr. P.H. Butterfield re., his biography of Dr. Gubbins.

Gubbings, John Gaspard

Robert Dundas Thomson, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A148
  • Fonds
  • 1832-1833

'Journal of a voyage from England to Bombay, China and the Cape of Good Hope in 1832 and 1833'

Describes his voyage as assistant surgeon on the 'Duchess of Atholl' in the service of the East India Company. Pages 398-433 relate to a visit to the Cape from 15-24 January 1833, in which he comments on the social life at the Cape, a visit to Mr. Cloete at Constantia to see his vineyards and cellars, and on George Thompson, the traveler.

The journal is illustrated with color drawings of the 'Duchess of Atholl' and the flags of the East India Company and pen and ink hand-drawn map of the Cape and geological sketch of the Mountain and Table Bay.

Thomson, Robert Dundas

Jan Christiaan Smuts

  • ZA HPRA A1480
  • Fonds
  • 1944

A synopsis of a series of 13 radio programmes on the life of J.C. Smuts, former Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. The programmes were compiled by S.G. Millin and presented in the Hotel Plaza, New York, on the 21 April 1944.

Sarah Gertrude Millin

Group Areas Act (Act No. 41 of 1950) Records

  • ZA HPRA A1485
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 1962

Records on the effects of the Act on the Indian community.

The collection includes a copy of the Act and memorandum on its administration.

Memoranda and press clippings 1953-1962 on its effects on the Indian community.

Agenda book of the 20th session of the South African Indian Congress Conference 1952.

Draft resolutions and papers presented to the Conference on the Group Areas Act convened by the Natal Indian Congress, 5-6 May 1956, Durban.

Agenda book and papers presented to the All-in Group Areas Conference of the Transvaal Indian Congress, 25-26 August 1956.

Reverend William Alfred Norton Papers

  • ZA HPRA A149
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1928

Papers relating to the history of the Basuto and Norton's work under the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM).

Reverend William Alfred Norton

Emile Brehier

  • ZA HPRA A15
  • Fonds
  • 1937

Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Paris

'La signification du discours de la méthode': an address to the Descartes Tercentenary Celebration held by the Philosophical Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1937.

Accompanied by a translation into English by Dr. E.M. Papenfus and correspondence.

South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, Records

  • ZA HPRA A150
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1945

Photocopies of 16 original letters, documents and reports 1845-1908; Geskiedenis van het Zuidafrikaanse Onderlinge Levensverzekering genootschap 1845-1945 deur R. Van Selm, Cape Town, 1945.

C.F. von Huegel, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A151
  • Fonds
  • 8 June 1796

Letter, The Hague, to the 'Burgers Representanten' appointed by the National Assembly.

Encloses papers relating to his case and says he was the only captain of the whole Cape garrison who remained faithful to the Batavian Republic and did not submit to the English at the Cape.

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