Resident Commissioner, Swaziland

'Handbook of Swaziland: historical and other information'

Governor of Cape Colony, 1854-1859

Letter written from King Williams Town, requesting copies of early missionary publications to help him acquire a complete collection of works published in the South African native dialects.

Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1799-1801

Letter, Stratford Place, to Monsieur le Viscomte de Vaux, declaring that Yonge knows nothing about an Abbé Young, whose name is not even the same as his 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.

Governor of Cape Colony 1847-1852

Instructions relative to the buildings and posts to be established in British Kaffraria, endorsed by H. Smith.

Governor of the Cape

Letter, Cape Town to Robert Godlonton. Thanks Godlonton for his farewell letter.

British General

Letter written to General Dillon, describing the operations on 13th Sept. 1878 against Sekukuni at Speckboom river, with 703 men, and the reasons for his withdrawal.

British General

Request addressed to the Landdrost of Rustenburg, for a detachment of troops with schedule of pay.

Professor of Physiology, Oxford

The letters are from Charles Darwin, Lord Derby, T.H. Huxley, Lord Kelvin and Lord Salisbury and refer mainly to the preparation of legislation regarding experiments on living animals.

Correspondence between J.S. Sanderson and Charles Darwin:
DCP-LETT-9939F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 18 April 1875, enclosing the copy of the letter to CD from Lord Derby (E. H. Stanley, 15th earl of Derby; the original of this enclosure is DCP-LETT-9938).
DCP-LETT-9942F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 22 April [1875], enclosing the letter to CD from T. H. Huxley, 21 April 1874 (DCP-LETT-9942), and a letter to CD from Richard Litchfield that has not been found.
Both of the above letters were written by Francis Darwin, CD’s third son, who acted as his father’s secretary.
DCP-LETT-9948F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 24 April [1875]. This letter was written by CD’s wife, Emma. The writing paper is headed with the Darwin family crest and its motto, ‘Cave et aude’.
DCP-LETT-9966F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 3 May 1875. This may also have been written by Emma.

The correspondence relating to Charles Darwin has been described by the Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge University Library, UK. The reference codes as used by the Charles Darwin Project has been included above for reference to the items as they will be published on the website of the Darwin Correspondence Project.

Astronomer

Letter, 1834 Mar, Cape of Good Hope, to his brother-in-law, Dr. Duncan Stewart. Supplies a reading list as requested by Stewart 'You ask me to recommend you a course of study, to name the books which should be regarded as standard and pre-eminent authorities ...'. The letter was published in South African Libraries, 7:138-154, 1940.