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Railways

Correspondent: - T.R. Price, General Manager, Central S. African Railways. Attached are 4 memoranda referred to in his letter.

Subjects: - Refusal by Price to read a paper on Railway management, organization and control; memorandum on report of Cape Railway Commission 1907; Report of a Commission... to consider and report upon the question of the future management of Railways (G7-1907); memorandum relative to railway organisation; Detailed list of questions relating to question XlV (II of section 4); statistics, for the International Railway Congress, Bern 1910, Reporter T.R. Price.

Natural History

Correspondents: - Bester, A.E., Niven, A.

Subjects: - Habits of pythons; instincts of birds and animals that storm is impending.

To Mother, Elizabeth F. Pim

Subjects: - Schooldays, visit to America 1689-1690; work in S. Africa, 1590, sorting out financial affairs of Charter Company; Afrikander Boni meeting in Kimberley 18891, at which Rhodes made speech; visits to Rhodesia, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Johannesburg 1891 on company business; comments on Transvaal politics, Kruger A Leyds; description of Johannesburg; report of the 1892 paying of De Beer's staff; 1695 Pim now working as auditor for be Beers; 1896 Jameson Raid and Transvaal politics; 1896 now set up for himself in Johannesburg; 1398 voyage to England and engagement; 1900 Siege of Kimberley; 1902-1911 family affairs; native question, politics; 1908 golden wedding of his parents and 1911 Coronation of King George V.

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