Lady Anna D'Urban and Henrietta Margaretha D'Urban, wife and daughter of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the Cape 1834-1838

Poetry, prose, epigrams, acrostics, music, scraps, silhouettes, playing cards, original paintings and sketches. The pictorial items relate to Antigua and British Guiana 1823-1829 and the Cape of Good Hope 1834-1840. There are holograph lines written by Sir Benjamin and Lady Anna D'Urban.

The Cape scenes include sketches by Sir J.E. Alexander, C.D. Bell, F.A. Campbell, J.S. Davison and A. Wylde and there are some flower paintings by M.A. Andrews, M. Schmid and some reputed to be by A. Roupell, author of Specimens of the flora of South Africa by A Lady, London, Nicol, 1849. Other pictorial material includes items on Gibraltar and Sardinia by C.W. Furlonge, a sporting scene by G. Hall, views of the bathing house on St. Vincent and India, together with European paintings by W.H. Piers.

Author of Natal en Nieuw gelderland, Arnhem, 1861

A free translation into Dutch, written in two copy books, of 'The early history of the Zulu-Kafir race of South Eastern Africa' by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, published in the Journal of the Society of Arts 29 Jan. 1875.

'Capital investment in Africa' a preliminary survey'. Confidential for the African Research Survey.

Trader and Explosives Expert

English version of the memoirs (Ms & Ts), German version of "Memoiren' (Ts) and copies of correspondence. Describes his life as a trader and traveller in Transvaal, Natal and Bechuanaland from 1872-1900 with comments on gold-mining at Pilgrims Rest, initiating roller-skating rinks at Grahamstown and King William's Town, making explosives for the Boers during the War of 1899-1902 and his arrest by the British in 1900. He refers to meetings with Chief Khama, President Kruger and F.C. Selous.

The correspondence is with W.C. Scully about publishing the Memoirs. Also letters from J.P. Snijman to Commandant Joubert, 15 Jan. 1900, introducing Gumpold, and from S. Eloff to Gumpold, 7 May 1908, on the efficiency of his explosive.

Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand

Survival of political man. Published by Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1950.

Historie van de Kaap/zeer Krachtig/1795/Gekeurt en waarachtig/Met droefheid en Pret/In vaersen gezet/Door een Nieuwe Poeet/Zo als ieder een weet. 12p. Ms vol.

'Gecopieerd voor haren geliefden vriend F.W. Fagel door C. Maria Brink, Kaapstad den 24 Mei 1842'. Written in poetic form, it describes the British capture of the Cape in 1795. Bears the book-plate of Myles E. Bourke.

Trader

'Reminiscences'. Some of the reminiscences were published in the Pretoria Chronicle, 27 Aug. 1908, The Sunday Times, 27 Aug, 1911 and in Pretoria Suburban and Premier Mine Advertiser, 5 Nov. 1913. They give an account of early trading conditions in Natal and Transvaal from his arrival in 1862, the establishment of the gold fields at Lydenburg and Pilgrims Rest and the Sekukuni uprising. James mentions Herbert Rhodes and Captain Alfred Aylward.

Jurist, politician and businessman

Diaries 1905, 1906, 1913; 8 scrap-books of press clippings, telegrams and proclamations 1893-1904 relating to politics, Jeppe's career as member of the Volksraad, the Reform movement, the franchise question and the South African War; letter-book 1893 containing replies by Jeppe to memorialists requesting help or redress of grievances from the Volksraad; miscellaneous papers including legal opinions, deeds of transfer, sworn affidavit, 1 Aug. 1896, re Jeppe's attitude to the Jameson Raid, invitation cards and personal documents re his admission to the English Bar and as an advocate in the Transvaal. Correspondents include J.B. Kotze and W.J. Leyds.

Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb. With her teacher and companion Miss Polly Thomson, she visited South Africa on a tour organized by the Rev. A. Blaxall 15 Mar-22 May 1951. This collection includes several nos. of periodicals containing articles on Helen Keller, press clippings referring to the places she visited; several group photographs; Ts of 'An unforgettable visit' by H.K., Ts account of the visit by Blaxall, Ts draft of 'Essay on the completion of a mission' by Blaxall with a foreword supplied by Alan Paton, and one LS from Dr. Keller to Blaxall dated 12 Dec. 1951.

Copies of correspondence between G.H. Beaumont, Barkly West, and Col. R.G. Kekewich (Commander of the troops, Kimberley) re the state of the war, 1900, together with a letter by M. Beaumont written in 1912 claiming that her husband had saved Barkly West Bridge.

Copy of the diary of a Frenchman found in Bloemfontein after its capture by the British 13 Mar. 1900 and list of French dead, wounded and prisoners of war.

Correspondence between R.G. Kekewich, C.J. Rhodes and W. Pickering (Secretary of De Beers) relating to the siege, notes by Kekewich on Rhodes and the siege, copies of telegrams, press clippings from the Diamond Fields Advertiser, statistics of rounds fired from 24 Oct. 1899 to 16 Feb. 1900, and letter of thanks to Lord Roberts from citizens thanking him for relieving Kimberley.