Letter signed by the inmates of the Concentration Camp and addressed to N.J. Scholtz expressing their regret at his transfer to a new appointment.

SOPHIATOWN, Interviews, papers, cassettes.

Interviews with people associated with Sophiatown during the 1950s. The interviews were conducted by Pippa Stein and the Junction Avenue Theatre Company (who put on a performance Sophiatown in 1987). Interviewees include: Jane Dakile, Phillip Stein, Antony Sampson, Kortbooi, Bishop Trevor Huddleston, Ezekiel Mphahlele and Arthur Maimane.

Collection of military letters and dispatches in Dutch mainly between the Presidents and the Boer commanders, 1900-1901.

Names of correspondents include L. Botha, P. Botha, S.W. Burger, J.H. de la Rey, C.R. de Wet, F.W. Reitz, M.T. Steyn, B. Viljoen and E. Wrangel.

Subjects are British troop movements, meeting of General Botha with Lord Kitchener, suggested attack on General Smith-Dorrien, destruction of rail communications, death of Danie Theron and peace negotiations.

Collection of papers relating to the Jameson Raid

Correspondence between A.D.H. Cooper, Sir W. Conyngham Greene, J.W. Leonard, N. Leviseur re the pleas for mercy for the Jameson Raid signatories and the Boer determination to see them hanged. Includes undated (?1897) letter from W.D. Karri-Davies, of a secret nature, explaining that Chamberlain will support the Reformers.

Also statements on the Raid by Sir G. Farrar, S. Klagsburn, L. Phillips and F. Rhodes, together with a press clipping 'Mr. Farrar on the situation'.

Application to the Government of the South African Republic for permission to construct a tramway on the Boksburg gold-fields.

Signatories include A.J.J. Celliers, J.C. du Plessis, G.W. Higgins, D.E. Schutte.

The collection contains the Papers of Sylvia Brererton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn after her marriage in the 1980s to Gerhard Jahn), who was a political activist and member of the South African Communist Party.

Martyr of the 1914 Rebellion

Letter written from Enkeldoorn, to James A. Bacon granting the latter permission to pass to Scherparabie.

Originals of a newspaper brought out during the Siege of Mafeking, numbers 1-152, from the 1 November 1899 to the 31 May 1900.

Also included is a preface page, issued by the publisher after the siege, relating the events in the publishing house during the siege whilst having to produce the Special Siege Slip.

See also Sol Plaatje's diary of the Siege of Mafeking, collection no. A2550.

East India man 'William Pitt'
Extract from the diary of Edmeades, 1806, describing the capture of Cape Town from the French.