Church of the Province of South Africa, Constitution
- ZA HPRA AB1160
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- 15 February 1876
Ratified deed, with the signatures of W.W. Jones, Bp. of Cape Town and Metropolitan, N.J. Merriman, Bp. of Grahamstown, and others.
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Church of the Province of South Africa, Constitution
Ratified deed, with the signatures of W.W. Jones, Bp. of Cape Town and Metropolitan, N.J. Merriman, Bp. of Grahamstown, and others.
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The newsletter "Now and Then" was published by the local committee of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the Johannesburg College of Education, and later became the official newspaper of the Johannesburg College of Education.
Included are the following issues:
First - Third issue 1960 and 12 October 1960
March, April, May, August, November 1961
April and September 1962
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Comtesse de, Author of The Gentleman digger, London, S. Low, 1891, and A son of Africa, London, Greening 1899.
'The burning of Johannesburg, a Christmas story of South Africa founded on historic fact.
Relates to the Tyumie valley massacre of the military villages at Woburn and Auckland on Christmas Day 1850.
British Association of Science
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.
Charles Aken Fairbridge, Scrapbook
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.
Joseph Gerstner (Father Jacob), Paper
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.