This collection comprises the memoirs and some of the official and personal papers of Donald Rolfes Hunt, a Sub-Native Commissioner who worked amongst the Bapedi people in the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal in the early Twentieth Century.

Reference is made to Hunt's experiences in the 2nd Anglo-Boer war and the first world war, but the collection focuses on the history, culture and administration of the people with whom he worked: the Bapedi; the Bakgatla, the Barolong, the Batlokwa & the Batlov. Much of the material relates to directives of The Native Affairs Department of The Transvaal; also included are government and other publications, annotated by Hunt, as well as maps and a photograph album compiled by Hunt. He died on 3 May 1949.

Author of Historical sketch of Zulu Mission in South Africa

Zulu-English vocabulary notebook.

Zulu linguist

A sectional vocabulary of English terms with Zulu equivalents.

Missionary
Les Ma-Rotse Etude géographique et ethnographique du Haut Zambeze'.

'Makalaka' - A translation by A. Mahloane, from the Setswana into English, of an essay which gained first prize in a literary competition.

Describes the history, language and customs of the Makalaka tribe in Bechuanaland, (now Botswana).

Photograph album entitled 'The British Association meeting, South Africa 1905'.

Photographs taken by delegates on board ship, in Madeira, Las Palmas, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, Kenya and Egypt.
The South African scenes include Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Pretoria, Johannesburg (Chinese labourers and mining scenes), Bloemfontein, Kimberley and places of Anglo-Boer War interest; the Rhodesian scenes include Bulawayo, Umtali, Matopos, Victoria Falls and Bridge.

An account of an expedition, Jul.-Nov. 1880, led by a member of the American Zulu Mission from Durban up the East Coast, with detailed description of the places and peoples visited in Mozambique and neighbouring islands. Label on cover reads 'Our lamented Pinkerton's story'.

President of the Orange Free State

'Studie in die buiteland, en die invloed daarvan op die nationale lewe'.

An address delivered in the Afrikaner Koffiehuis, Cape Town, in which he compared the advantages of studying in South Africa or abroad, with particular reference to divinity, law and medicine, detailing the legal requirements in each province before one can practise in these professions.

Accompanied by Ts transcription (9p.) and Ts translation into English (7p.)

Traveller and missionary to the Jews

ALS, 8 Jun.1838, Dublin, to W. Cranford, London, giving the news that Dublin University has conferred an Hon. LL.D. on him and inviting him to address the University (2p);

ALS, 19 May 1848, Edinburgh (?), to Lady McNeile, declining an invitation and detailing his engagements. Also press cutting containing biography of Wolff.