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Papers of John Gaspard Gubbins
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To Raikes

Importance of contacts with people and institutions; Dr. Junod wants to publish Zidji in English; exchange of Australian with S. African implements; approves of scheme to start South African Historical Museum in Johannesburg under the auspices of the Municipality.

To Raikes

Gubbins to give talks in Johannesburg; cost and distribution of material between library and municipality; to assist Pretoria with exhibition material, then they would assist us; even visit various centres in S. Africa including Mozambique and Rhodesia; dealing in antiquarian books, relics, etc., not on same business principles as accounting; asked their Royal Highnesses (Athlone) in London, to inscribe our copy Royal Edition Hakluyt's Voyages, as their joint gift; wishes only to get back for the Gubbins Library and self a working capital that has been expended, and devise some scheme fair to both and satisfy the auditors.

To Raikes, from Lourenco Marques

Governor-General, Mocambique thinks he knows of Bartholomew Diaz portrait ; term 'Africana' foreign to English ears - not in dictionaries - article by Smitt, London Daily Mail; site of Fort Mary, Lydenburg, should be marked.

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