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Charles Cowen

  • ZA HPRA A23
  • Fonds
  • 1894

Journalist, newspaper editor and author

'Memoir of the life of William Howard Schröder, artist', 1894.
Ms and Ts drafts with galley proof of the 'Memoir' as printed in the Schröder Art Memento, 1894.

James Briggs, Diary

  • ZA HPRA A27
  • Fonds
  • 1865

Professional soldier

Describes a game hunting expedition from Grahamstown to the Orange Free State, travelling via the Fish River, King William's Town, Frankfort, Queenstown, Burgersdorp, Reddersburg, Bloemfontein, Modder River, Winburg and Thaba Nchu. When an uprising broke out, Briggs joined a Boer commando under Louis Wessels which routed the attackers. Includes comments on meetings with Chiefs Sandile and Moroka and President Brand.

Published in Sotho war diaries 1864-1965, edited by K. Schoeman (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1985).

D'Urban family, Scrapbooks

  • ZA HPRA A29
  • Fonds
  • 1823-2840

Lady Anna D'Urban and Henrietta Margaretha D'Urban, wife and daughter of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape 1834-1838

Poetry, prose, epigrams, acrostics, music, scraps, silhouettes, playing cards, original paintings and sketches. The pictorial items relate to Antigua and British Guiana 1823-1829 and the Cape of Good Hope 1834-1840. There are holograph lines written by Sir Benjamin and Lady Anna D'Urban.

The Cape scenes include sketches by Sir J.E. Alexander, C.D. Bell, F.A. Campbell, J.S. Davison and A. Wylde and there are some flower paintings by M.A. Andrews, M. Schmid and some reputed to be by A. Roupell, author of Specimens of the flora of South Africa by A Lady, London, Nicol, 1849. Other pictorial material includes items on Gibraltar and Sardinia by C.W. Furlonge, a sporting scene by G. Hall, views of the bathing house on St. Vincent and India, together with European paintings by W.H. Piers.

W.K. Entre

  • ZA HPRA A32
  • Fonds
  • no date

Author of Natal en Nieuw gelderland, Arnhem, 1861

A free translation into Dutch, written in two copy books, of 'The early history of the Zulu-Kafir race of South Eastern Africa' by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, published in the Journal of the Society of Arts 29 Jan. 1875.

Sally Herbert Frankel, Survey

  • ZA HPRA A38
  • Fonds

'Capital investment in Africa' a preliminary survey'. Confidential for the African Research Survey.

Harry Gumpold, Memoirs

  • ZA HPRA A45
  • Fonds
  • 1928

Trader and Explosives Expert

English version of the memoirs (Ms & Ts), German version of "Memoiren' (Ts) and copies of correspondence. Describes his life as a trader and traveller in Transvaal, Natal and Bechuanaland from 1872-1900 with comments on gold-mining at Pilgrims Rest, initiating roller-skating rinks at Grahamstown and King William's Town, making explosives for the Boers during the War of 1899-1902 and his arrest by the British in 1900. He refers to meetings with Chief Khama, President Kruger and F.C. Selous.

The correspondence is with W.C. Scully about publishing the Memoirs. Also letters from J.P. Snijman to Commandant Joubert, 15 Jan. 1900, introducing Gumpold, and from S. Eloff to Gumpold, 7 May 1908, on the efficiency of his explosive.

Errol Eustace Harris

  • ZA HPRA A49
  • Fonds
  • 1950

Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

Survival of political man. Published by Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1950.

Historie van de Kaap

  • ZA HPRA A51
  • Fonds
  • 1842

Historie van de Kaap/zeer Krachtig/1795/Gekeurt en waarachtig/Met droefheid en Pret/In vaersen gezet/Door een Nieuwe Poeet/Zo als ieder een weet. 12p. Ms vol.

'Gecopieerd voor haren geliefden vriend F.W. Fagel door C. Maria Brink, Kaapstad den 24 Mei 1842'. Written in poetic form, it describes the British capture of the Cape in 1795. Bears the book-plate of Myles E. Bourke.

Richard Thomas James

  • ZA HPRA A55
  • Fonds
  • 1860s

Trader

'Reminiscences'. Some of the reminiscences were published in the Pretoria Chronicle, 27 Aug. 1908, The Sunday Times, 27 Aug, 1911 and in Pretoria Suburban and Premier Mine Advertiser, 5 Nov. 1913. They give an account of early trading conditions in Natal and Transvaal from his arrival in 1862, the establishment of the gold fields at Lydenburg and Pilgrims Rest and the Sekukuni uprising. James mentions Herbert Rhodes and Captain Alfred Aylward.

Carl Ludwig Theodor Jeppe Papers

  • ZA HPRA A57
  • Fonds
  • 1877-1930

Jurist, politician and businessman

Diaries 1905, 1906, 1913; 8 scrap-books of press clippings, telegrams and proclamations 1893-1904 relating to politics, Jeppe's career as member of the Volksraad, the Reform movement, the franchise question and the South African War; letter-book 1893 containing replies by Jeppe to memorialists requesting help or redress of grievances from the Volksraad; miscellaneous papers including legal opinions, deeds of transfer, sworn affidavit, 1 Aug. 1896, re Jeppe's attitude to the Jameson Raid, invitation cards and personal documents re his admission to the English Bar and as an advocate in the Transvaal. Correspondents include J.B. Kotze and W.J. Leyds.

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