Wesleyan missionary to the Pondos, adviser of Chief Faku and unofficial representative of the British government in Pondoland

Subjects are missions, frontier wars, the politics of the Eastern Cape, with particular reference to Pondoland and the Transkei, the annexation of Basutoland and the efforts of Natalians to increase their boundaries.

Manuscript diary 1 Jan. 1845-8 Mar. 1856 (incomplete and damaged; the original diary was destroyed); 2 volumes and 2 files of correspondence 1836-1880; bound volume containing copies of the correspondence and diary compiled by C.J. Uys, entitled 'The Reverend Thomas Jenkins Private Papers and Diary 1838-1880' (388p., 1934).

Correspondence is mainly with the Rev. W. Shaw but other correspondents include M.S. Blyth, C. Brownlee, Sir W. Currie, Sir H.B. Frere, H.F. Fynn, Sir W. Harding, A. Kok, Col. J. Maclean, Sir T. Shepstone, W.T. Shrewsbury, J.C. Warner, A.S. White, C. White, Sir P.E. Wodehouse.

Includes several documents drafted by Jenkins for Chief Faku, report on the meeting of the Pondos 1856, government proclamations, notes on the murder of Private Thomas Stuart, 1851, and on St. John's River Mouth and the First Balance Sheet of Elbert S. and Emma Clarke's new mission to Zulu Kaffirs at Rock Fountain, Ixopo, Natal, ending 31 Dec. 1879. (Ptd.8p.).

4 minute-books from the Club's inception in 1897 to its ending in 1917; annual reports; letter-book 1897-1915; 9 loose files of correspondence, press clippings, photographs, reports of excursions, field notes and papers on flora and fauna.

Minutes of meetings and circulars 1919-1920; address and subscription book 1921; lists of members; invitation cards, tickets and programmes for concerts; correspondence of the secretary and president, J. Drutman, 1919-1921.

Magistrate, Superintendent of the Burgher Refugee Camp at Mafeking, 1901-1902

Census of the camp June 1902; report by Kemball-Cook on the conduct of the camp during his period as superintendent; correspondence including letters of thanks from inmates and staff at the camp, white and black, expressing appreciation of his kindness and humane administration and from residents at Rustenburg deploring his departure as magistrate, 1904.

M.O.H. East London, Collector

Including: 5 manuscript documents relating to the municipality of Stellenbosch 1841-1872 re tax collections and rates; papers relating to the colonial volunteer corps, Cape Town, 1894-1896; bound file of correspondence on defence matters in the Eastern Province 1901-1902; bound Ts of minutes of evidence submitted to a government enquiry into the administration of the Frere hospital 1902; report on plague at East London 1904-1905; miscellaneous papers on the influenza epidemic at East London 1909; correspondence with A. Elliott, press clippings and a Ts appreciation of Elliott by Laidler published Cape Town 1943; Ts draft of 'Pre-Victorian products of the Cape Press 1796-1837'; 1 scrap-book 1909-1919 containing samples of 'passes'; 5 scrap-books 1920-1936 containing personal letters, documents and press clippings relating to South African antiquities and the early history of the Cape.

Agriculturist, journalist and author

Press clippings on the South African farmers' agricultural tours to Europe in 1914 and 1925.

The Moodie Family originated from Melsetter House, Orkney Islands

Letters between members of the family on personal and family affairs, the efforts to establish themselves at the Cape of Captain Benjamin Moodie (1789-1856), Lt. Donald Moodie (1794-1861) and J.W.D. Moodie (1797-1869), and of the difficulties experienced by Donald Moodie in publishing a series of early Cape Archives called The Record (Cape Town, Robertson, 1838-1841). Includes a letter from Thomas Moodie to C.A. Fairbridge commenting on Lord Carnarvon's proposed scheme of confederation for Southern Africa.

Also notes from the Dictionary of National Biography on various members of the Moodie family, an Ms on Donald Moodie and Ms on the family tree of Johannes Smuts, into whose family Donald Moodie's son married.

Explorer, hunter, magistrate and Cape emissary to South West Africa

The journals describe his missions to Namaqualand and Damaraland to ascertain mining potential and possible incorporation into the Cape. As a result of his recommendations Walvis Bay and the surrounding territory was annexed but he was unsuccessful in Great Namaqualand.

Volume 1 contains the original diary from 11 Apr.-20 Dec. 1876 (269p.) and photocopies of the diary kept by his secretary from 5 Dec. 1876-24 Apr. 1877 (125p.)

Volume 2 contains the original diary from 29 July 1878-20 Jan. 1879 (198p.) and photocopies of the diary from 10 Jan.-2 Aug. 1880 (145p.).

Part of the journals was published as Report of W.C. Palgrave, Esq., Special Commissioner to the tribes north of the Orange River, Cape Town, 1877.

Papers for the 20th anniversary of C.J. Rhodes' death, 1922.

Including transcript by J.P. Fitzpatrick (21p.), written hurriedly from memory for the Cape Times, dated 21 Mar. 1922, with reminiscences of C.J. Rhodes, and comments on Alfred Beit and Sir Donald Currie; Ts by J.X. Merriman (6p.) and an accompanying letter, 23 Mar. 1922, to W. Morrison, requesting that he did not use these rambling notes; press clippings from the Cape Times including the recollections of Edmund Garrett and Sir Lewis Michell.

The Committee was established by the Department of Education, to investigate the disturbances at state-aided educational institutions for Africans, with boarding establishments. The Chairman of the Committee was D.McK. Malcom, and the members were D.D.T. Jabavu, R.E. Phillips and H.R. Storey. The Report was released on the 26 July 1947.