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Birch Reynardson

  • ZA HPRA A12
  • Fonds
  • 1823

'The tour of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, England' 1823. A geographic guide to these countries.

Transvaal Rifle Volunteers, Records

  • ZA HPRA A120
  • Fonds
  • 1879

Minute-book and company record of No. 2 Company, Pretoria 8 March - 6 August 1879

Includes press clippings on rifle competitions and volunteer news and a list of those invited to a dance on 28 July 1879. The Commandant was Colonel Lanyon.

Also in the volume is the provisional share register of the Henry Nourse Prospecting Syndicate. The Syndicate held three blocks of claims on Doornfontein, Witwatersrand Gold Fields.

Edward Bushnan Rose, Notebook

  • ZA HPRA A1203
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1900

A keen observer, Edward Bushnan Rose in his notebook records everything of interest, including an interview with General Smuts when the Boer forces were about to surrender. He included a number of photographs, which he must have obtained from the Barnett's shop in Johannesburg, which was by then run by David Barnett after the death of his brother Joseph.
Rose gives an account of the exodus from Johannesburg prior to the outbreak of war on the 11 October 1899; the alarm in the town; the journey in coal and cattle trucks; the effect in Johannesburg of the declaration of war and under martial law; looting; formation of the Uitlander corps; manufacture of ammunition; commandeering of horses and gold; government proclamations affecting rents and foodstuffs; how the news of Stormberg, Scholtzuch and Colenso was received; Christmas at Johannesburg; cautioning of rumour mongers, relief and other funds; the ambulance corps; hospitals; President Kruger and the British; conduct of Uitlanders; behaviour of the Boers during the war; Boer withdrawals, and casualties up to the relief of Kimberley and Ladysmith; the great explosion at the Begbie's Foundry, which had been used for armaments production by Boer forces, on the 24 April 1900 ; restarting the mines; Smuts ultimatum; termination of the war; condition of British prison camps; surrender of Johannesburg; Dr. Krause's proclamation; hoisting the Union Jack and the surrender of Pretoria.

Edward Bushnan Rose

Tudor Gruffyd Trevor, Novel

  • ZA HPRA A121
  • Fonds
  • 1902

Geologist, mining official and author of 'Forty years in Africa'

"Tradition counts" a novel set partly in Johannesburg.

Ellen Turbutt, Scrap book

  • ZA HPRA A122
  • Fonds
  • 1844-1878

Contains extracts of prose, an acrostic and poetry, including Ms verse by Robert Moffat.

George Albert Turner, Typescript

  • ZA HPRA A123
  • Fonds
  • no date

Medical Superintendent of the Pretoria Leper Asylum

'South African natives', Part 2. On the tribal customs of East and South Africa, with a table of anthropological measurements.

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