Diplomat

Programmes, invitation cards, etc. to banquets, official functions and ceremonies which Sir Reginald attended. Also photographs of leading South African and British political figures during the period when he was acting High Commissioner of the Union 1920-1924.

Historian

Proofsheets of History of South Africa (London, Longmans, 1927).

Also Hg draft of W.P. Schreiner, a South African, (London, O.U.P. 1937).

Letter signed by Sol Plaatje, written to Major Cooke, Director of Native Labour in Johannesburg, 17 January 1931, appealing for funds to help publish 'native literature'. The letter was found in Mhudi, Lovedale, 1930.

List of Zulu words with English meanings and Zulu synonyms plus Index. Includes special vocabularies.

Literary manuscripts, personal reminiscences, correspondence, short stories and reviews both by and on William Charles Scully, Magistrate, author and poet. The papers contain items relating to Scully's wife Nora, children and his in-laws, the Richards family of 1820 settler stock. Correspondence, mainly family, is personal but includes comments on his literary ambitions, work as a magistrate and topics of the day.

Building contractor

Containing invitation cards, mainly connected with the Transvaal Mounted Rifles; notice about surrender of Johannesburg 1900, Anglo-Boer war pass 1901 and forage permit 1902; press clippings, relating mainly to the Anglo-Boer War, with many songs and verses, including items on the relief of Ladysmith and Spionkop.

Annual reports, circulars, membership cards; minutes of General Meetings 1909-1931, Executive Committee 1912-1931, Speakers Circle 1914 and Election Sub-Committee 1915; correspondence with institutions and individuals on women's suffrage; press clippings and printed items including odd issues of Flashlight and Woman's Outlook; reviews of Way stations [a collection of speeches, lectures and articles dealing with the Female Suffrage Movement] by Elizabeth Robins, London, 1913.

Correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Garment Workers Union, the South African Trades and Labour Council and the South African Defence and Aid Fund.

Correspondence Relating to the Personal Library of General J.C. Smuts 1902-1950.

42 textbooks, written in the camp and reproduced for the use of prisoners by the Scuola Duc d'Aosta, including courses in technical subjects as well as elementary reading and writing. Also a pamphlet P.O.W. exhibition of arts and crafts, 1944 and Italian-English and English-Italian Practical Pocket Dictionary by S.G. Ellis-Clarke, H. Sonnabend and E. Ventura, Zonderwater, Apr. 1944.