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.

'Songs and devotions in the manner of the ancient psalms'.
Published as Psalms in the spirit of Jesus, Boston, 1942.

Lawyer and book collector

Contains Ms poems, sketches, invitation cards, accounts, letters and printed items. Includes two printed proclamations, the first dated 24 Apr.1807 on the selling of bad drugs signed by Lt. Gen. H.G. Grey, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape and the second dated 27 Mar.1818 on the payment of dues for transfer of property signed by the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset. Also an undated broadsheet entitled 'Programme of Mr. O.J. Truter's triumphal procession'; valentine card for 1855; report on the memorial of certain Mahomedan priests and other Malays in Cape Town praying to be allowed to celebrate the Califa, 1855 (See The Califah question by J.S. de Lima, Cape Town, 1857); letter from W.C. Palgrave, 2 May 1876, Walvisch Bay, to Fairbridge, re botanical specimens; Ms genealogical tree of the De Jongh family.

London Missionary Society Missionary

'A grammar and vocabulary of the Hinzuan language'. Written during a residence on the island 'Joana' in the years 1821 and 1822.

The original Ms is in the Grey collection, South African Library.

Traveller, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

'A journal of a year's expedition in the interior of South Africa in 1877 & 1878 by Richard Frewen, F.R.G.S. with his letters during the same period; also during a three month's tour in the Cape Colony and Kaffraria in 1876'. 1879 Mar. 471p. Ms vol.

The Ms was copied by the Rev. F. Storr, tutor to R. Frewen, who writes a preface to it. The journal and letters appear on the rectos, while the versos are blank or used for notes, cross-references and newspaper clippings. The letters of July-October 1876 relate to his first journey through the Cape of Good Hope, visiting local chiefs and being present at a conference with Mr. Brownlee. The letters and journal of 1877-1878 relate to his journey to the Victoria Falls via the Transvaal and Rhodesia, meeting Chiefs Khama and Lobengula. Correspondents were Miss and Mrs. Frewen and Dr. Storr.

The journal was published in Zambesia and Matabeleland in the Seventies, edited by E.C. Tabler, London, 1960.

Roman Catholic missionary and botanist

'The diluvial question in South Africa': a paper read to the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, 1934. Accompanied by notes on the paper by A.L. du Toit.

Philologist

Manuscript notes by the author written on pages in an interleaved copy of his "Die Sprache der Name", Leipzig 1870. 1 bound volume, 78 pages. Autographed, Cape of Good Hope, May 1889.

Manuscript notes by the author written on pages in an interleaved copy of his "Tsuni 11 - Goam: the supreme being of the Khoi-Khoi". London, 1881. 1 volume, 154 pages. Autographed, Cape of Good Hope, 26 Aug. 1882.

Wesleyan missionary to the Pondos, adviser of Chief Faku and unofficial representative of the British government in Pondoland

Subjects are missions, frontier wars, the politics of the Eastern Cape, with particular reference to Pondoland and the Transkei, the annexation of Basutoland and the efforts of Natalians to increase their boundaries.

Manuscript diary 1 Jan. 1845-8 Mar. 1856 (incomplete and damaged; the original diary was destroyed); 2 volumes and 2 files of correspondence 1836-1880; bound volume containing copies of the correspondence and diary compiled by C.J. Uys, entitled 'The Reverend Thomas Jenkins Private Papers and Diary 1838-1880' (388p., 1934).

Correspondence is mainly with the Rev. W. Shaw but other correspondents include M.S. Blyth, C. Brownlee, Sir W. Currie, Sir H.B. Frere, H.F. Fynn, Sir W. Harding, A. Kok, Col. J. Maclean, Sir T. Shepstone, W.T. Shrewsbury, J.C. Warner, A.S. White, C. White, Sir P.E. Wodehouse.

Includes several documents drafted by Jenkins for Chief Faku, report on the meeting of the Pondos 1856, government proclamations, notes on the murder of Private Thomas Stuart, 1851, and on St. John's River Mouth and the First Balance Sheet of Elbert S. and Emma Clarke's new mission to Zulu Kaffirs at Rock Fountain, Ixopo, Natal, ending 31 Dec. 1879. (Ptd.8p.).

4 minute-books from the Club's inception in 1897 to its ending in 1917; annual reports; letter-book 1897-1915; 9 loose files of correspondence, press clippings, photographs, reports of excursions, field notes and papers on flora and fauna.

Minutes of meetings and circulars 1919-1920; address and subscription book 1921; lists of members; invitation cards, tickets and programmes for concerts; correspondence of the secretary and president, J. Drutman, 1919-1921.