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Gubbins to give talks in Johannesburg; cost and distribution of material between library and municipality; to assist Pretoria with exhibition material, then they would assist us; even visit various centres in S. Africa including Mozambique and Rhodesia; dealing in antiquarian books, relics, etc., not on same business principles as accounting; asked their Royal Highnesses (Athlone) in London, to inscribe our copy Royal Edition Hakluyt's Voyages, as their joint gift; wishes only to get back for the Gubbins Library and self a working capital that has been expended, and devise some scheme fair to both and satisfy the auditors.

To Raikes

Re copy of Sir Henry Miers letter, chief museum authority in England, who would advise Carnegie people of anything valuable out here.

To Raikes. Library will store Africans material, the gallery will exhibit pictorial side, hence what might be called National Bureau of S.A. Illustration, will store and circulate picture side of S.A. history and tradition; Elliott and Duggan Cronin wish to dispose of their material at reasonable rate; Star and Sunday Times would contribute historical negatives; to form a centre as a nucleus and the bureau a service for everyone

To Raikes, from Lourenco Marques

Governor-General, Mocambique thinks he knows of Bartholomew Diaz portrait ; term 'Africana' foreign to English ears - not in dictionaries - article by Smitt, London Daily Mail; site of Fort Mary, Lydenburg, should be marked.

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