Extracts from the church register showing that Joannes Arnoldus, son of Arnoldus Bartman and Wilhelmina Bradenbrink, was baptised on 20 May 1799 and that Wilhelmina Bradenbrink, wife of Arnoldus Bartman, was buried on 25 May 1809. Certified true copies, 26 April 1820.

Author unknown. Describes experiences as public prosecutor in Lydenburg, 1881-1883.

Admiral

Two letters to Lord Melville on Bertie's claim for compensation by the East India Company for extra expenditure incurred while in command of the squadron at the Cape, opinions of Lord Melville, Mr. Perceval and Mr. Yorke and Lord Melville's reply to Bertie.

Replica of the Treaty between Pieter Retief and Dingaan, by which Dingaan ceded substantial land to Retief, signed on the 4 February 1838.

Underneath the text of the Treaty is a certificate in Dutch, to the effect that the Treaty was found on the 21 December 1838 in a leather satchel near the bones of Retief, and it is signed by E. Potgieter. The text of the Treaty has been translated into English, and both, the Treaty as well as the certificate have been pasted on a board. Research has uncovered that a number of such replicas of the Treaty have been made.

MA Thesis of Kevin John French, which he submitted in 1983 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Arthur Aaron Boss (1861-1955) was a soldier and stockbroker. His diary, dated 22 February - 29 June 1879, relates to the campaign against Chief Morosi, the taking of the mountain and death of the Chief which resulted in the decline of the Baphuti tribe. It is accompanied by a plan of the mountain, a typscript of the diary by Dr P.H. Butterfield (30 pages) and an article on the campaign in The Star, 29 June 1929. The original can be found in the Johannesburg Public Library.

Brigadier-General

Letter, Cape Town, to the African club severing his connection with that club.

Bianchi was foreign secretary to Lord Keith and spent several years at the Cape. Owing to the change of government he found himself without employment, and his letters which are addressed to Lord Melville, Lord Castlereagh and Lord Liverpool are mainly concerned with his straitened circumstances, and plead for their assistance in finding him a suitable post.