The official handbook on the history, productions and resources of the Cape of Good Hope, was commissioned by the Committee appointed by the Government for the representation of the Cape Colony at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to be held in London in 1886.

The Foreword was written by the editor John Noble, Parliament Houses, Cape Town. The book covers issues such as health, geography of the Cape Colony, land and agriculture, ostrich farming, viticulture, manufacturing, population statistics, communication systems and infrastructure, cities and diamond mining.

'List of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates tried by General Courtsmartial from the date of the capture of the colony to the 30th October 1798'.

Supplies information of rank, name, regiment and result of the trial including such sentences as 1500 lashes, death and transportation to Botany Bay.

Fragments of a Dutch East India Company cash book, 'Casteel de Goede Hoop'

Letter of appointment to the 'Centraal Kinderpokken Comittee Johannesburg', signed by S.J.P. Kruger, State President and W.J. Leyds, State Secretary, Pretoria, 7 August 1894.

Photocopy of a Scrap-book, 1918, mostly in the original hand of Sol Plaatje, with a few notes probably written by Victor Molema, his grandson.

It contains notes, printed extracts from the Diamond Fields Advertiser and copies of correspondence relating to Plaatje's personal affairs, the formation of the Diamond Fields Men's Own Brotherhood and the laying of the foundation stone of Native Assembly Hall, Kimberley, by Lord Buxton. Also included are genealogical tables of the Barolong.

Photographic copies of paintings, 19th century.

Paintings by C.J. Andersson and his wife Sarah, including some copies of Burchell paintings, portraits of C.J. Andersson, his wife and his father (Llewellyn Lloyd), lithographs from his book Lake Ngami (London, 1856) and water-colours by W.J. Burchell. They relate mainly to South West Africa and a few to South Africa.

There is a detailed inventory of the Andersson collection, but the collection itself (including the originals of the above paintings) is not held at Historical Papers.

The handbook by Woodward was a revision of "Collections for a Handbook of the Makua" by the Rev. Chauncey Maples (afterwards Bishop of Likoma), which were published in 1879, in which he said "The Makua language is a step further from Swahili than Yao, and is on the whole more difficult to acquire upon a basis of a knowledge of Swahili. The Makuas are a very large and extensive tribe, inhabiting the country that lies at the back of Mosambique, stretching inland for several hundred miles".

Teacher and early Afrikaans writer

Letter to the 'Voorsitter en die Lede van die Genootskap van Regte Afrikaanders'.

Astronomer

Draft of an obituary on Sir Thomas Maclear, for publication in a magazine.