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Cape of Good Hope, Letters

  • ZA HPRA A569
  • Fonds
  • 1795-1802

Transcripts of letters from Dutch farmers, translated into English, to General J.H. Craig, complaining that the Hottentot cattle are trespassing on their land; letter, 4 Oct. 1798, from the London Missionary Society to Lord Macartney, asking help in founding a mission; letters from Moravian missionaries to successive governors requesting help and complaining of infringements by local farmers: report, 17 Feb. 1802, by M. Gie to General F. Dundas, giving details of land round Baviaans Kloof.

J. Hall, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A164
  • Fonds
  • 15 February 1802

Brigadier-General

Letter, Cape Town, to the African club severing his connection with that club.

Earl George Macartney Papers

  • ZA HPRA A88
  • Fonds
  • 1779 - 1803

The earliest papers are dated 1779, when Macartney was Governor of the Cariboo Islands, and describe the British surrender to the French during the American War of Independence. Thereafter, the papers relate to the first British Occupation of the Cape of Good Hope and, in particular, to the years 1797-1798 when Macartney was Governor. There are also papers relating to the administration of Sir James Henry Craig, who captured the Cape on 14 September 1795, and was in command until Macartney arrived in 1797.

All aspects of administration at the Cape are touched upon: - shortages of grain, specie (NB: money in the form of coins rather than notes) and timber; the duties of the Burgher Senators (the new name for the old Commissioners of the Court of Justice under the Dutch East India Company); slavery and the importation of slaves; the disaffection of the Dutch population; the indigenous tribes and the need to 'separate' them from the colonists; trade regulations for the Cape and the East India Company's monopoly of trade to and from the East; fiscal arrangements; the question of the debts due to the Dutch East India Company at the time of the capture in 1795 and whether they are to be regarded as prize booty for the captors of the Cape or are to be taken over by His Majesty's government in London. Of particular interest are the reports sent back by Macartney's private secretary, John Barrow, who had been sent on an expedition to investigate supplies of timber, flax and hemp, the existence of mineral deposits, the navigability of certain bays and trading with the "Caffres".

The papers also relate to the Napoleonic Wars and to the Cape's strategic position. There is much about the war at sea, which necessitated the introduction of a convoy system for shipping, and about the military and naval forces at the Cape, including plans for projected attacks on Batavia and Spanish America from the Cape. Many items relate to the naval mutiny at Simon's Town in 1797.

Amongst the British correspondents is the Court of Directors of the East India Company, the Privy Council., Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, and William Huskisson, Under-Secretary for War. At the Cape Macartney corresponded with Admirals Pringle and Christian, Major-General Duncan, Commander of the troops, Secretary Andrew Barnard, Under-Secretaries John Barrow and Acheson Maxwell, Deputy Secretary Hercules Ross, Commissary-General John Pringle, the landdrost at Graaff Reinet, Frans Reinhard Dresler, and others.

There in one additional intrusive item (No.594) about the Cape Observatory, dated 1837 and written by Sir John Barrow, who had been closely associated with Macartney at the Cape.

Macartney, Earl George

Capt. William Edmeades, Diary

  • ZA HPRA A270
  • Fonds
  • 1806

East India man 'William Pitt'
Extract from the diary of Edmeades, 1806, describing the capture of Cape Town from the French.

Earl George Macartney

  • ZA HPRA A736
  • Fonds
  • 1795 - 1806

This volume, No. 6685 in the Oppenheimer Library, consists of 14 letters bound together (and 4 loose items in a pocket at the back), with a calligraphed title page.

The letters are mainly to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Secretary of State for War from 1794-1801, and are bound in the following manner:.

Henrietta Oliver, Agreement

  • ZA HPRA A466
  • Fonds
  • 1807

Articles of agreement between Nicolls Raynsford and Henrietta Oliver.

Signed in the presence of Edward Raynsford by Nicolls Raynsford. Miss Oliver was about to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope as governess to Mr. Raynsford's daughters

Michael Angelo Bianchi, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A165
  • Fonds
  • 1801-1809

Bianchi was foreign secretary to Lord Keith and spent several years at the Cape. Owing to the change of government he found himself without employment, and his letters which are addressed to Lord Melville, Lord Castlereagh and Lord Liverpool are mainly concerned with his straitened circumstances, and plead for their assistance in finding him a suitable post.

Sir Albermarle Bertie, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A162
  • Fonds
  • 1811-1812

Admiral

Two letters to Lord Melville on Bertie's claim for compensation by the East India Company for extra expenditure incurred while in command of the squadron at the Cape, opinions of Lord Melville, Mr. Perceval and Mr. Yorke and Lord Melville's reply to Bertie.

Sir Charles Tyler, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A124
  • Fonds
  • October 1812 - October 1813

British Admiral

Journal written from 2nd October 1812 to 15th October 1813

An account of the squadron at the Cape, including summaries of orders given and received, and also of the voyage of H.M.S. 'Semiramis', bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Tyler, from England to the Cape. It is preceded by 'Remarks on board H.M. ship 'Barfleur', at anchor off the Tagus', Jul-Oct. 1808.

Cape of Good Hope, Certificate of employment

  • ZA HPRA A527
  • Fonds
  • 3 December 1814

Certificate of employment and discharge of James Allen, Ship's carpenter at the Dock Yard, signed by the Master Storekeeper, Master Attendant and Master Shipwright.

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