Orange Free State & Transvaal; Bloemfontein hospitals, groups of nurses; senses of Bloemfontein and Pretoria; Pres. Steyn and Abraham Fischer; also Lord Baden Powell.
Scenes of Durban. Zulus and the South African War, 1899-1902, including General Botha, General Kock's staff, President Steyn's visit to the Boer army and other views of the Natal campaign. Also photograph of the place where Dr. Jameson surrendered, Fort Mary, Lydenburg during the 1st South African War, 1880-1881, and of a surveying group at Beaufort West.
Telegrams and cablegrams in English or translated into English, mainly between J.H. Hofmeyr (Onze Jan) and A. Fischer, President P. Kruger, Sir A. Milner, F.W. Reitz, O. Schreiner, Sir J. Sivewright, J.C. Smuts, President M.T. Steyn, Dr. T.N.G. Te Water and L. Weinthal. They relate to Hofmeyr's efforts to prevent war breaking out between the Boer Republics and Britain.
Case papers from the K.B. division in the High Court of Justice and H.M. Court of Appeal (England) in the House of Lords relating to the claim for damages brought by Wernher Beit & Co. against Arthur Basil Markham 1901-1902. 6 items printed.
The action was one of slander arising out of a speech made by Markham in which he accused Wernher, Beit & Co., of being 'thieves and swindlers'. Subsequently he tried to produce evidence that there had been bribery and corruption in the company's dealings with the South African Republic and that the company had helped to incite the Jameson Raid for their own ends.