Copies of letters, including Lady Crewe's letters, unfinished page of a memoir of C.P. Crewe, Unionist Party minutes 1910-1920 and reminiscences of J.M. Orpen.
The Historical Papers Archive received the records of the CSVR in 2007, representing the work of the CSVR through its projects and programmes. It should be noted, that the material received is quite patchy and does not cover the full extent of the work done in the various Units and of all the projects and programmes of the CSVR exhaustively, gaps will have to be filled through subsequent archival deposits. Also, reference is made to the CSVR's TRC collection in an earlier collection received by SAHA, collection number AL3110.
1st report of directors to Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, with brief account of events preceding change of the name Belgeric Gold Mining Company Ltd. to Eric Bell and Company Ltd., 12.6.46.
Also 2nd 4th reports, 1947-1949. ; notices of & proceedings at meetings, etc. File 1.
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.
Criminal claim and conclusion made and demanded by the fiscal versus Marthinus Prinsloo and his accomplices. 1800 August 29. Document signed by W.S. van Ryneveld.
Contains pronouncement of sentence on 3 September 1800 against Marthinus Prinsloo, Adriaan van Jaarsveld and 16 others for their part in the armed rebellion in the Graaff Reinet district and inventory of documents used. Prinsloo and van Jaarsveld were sentenced to death but the sentences were not carried out.
The scrap-book contains broadsides pertaining to the theatre and one of a scurrilous nature; press clippings of poetry, anecdotes, cartoon and news events of the day such as the death of George III in 1820 and Napoleon in 1840; coats of arms and manuscript lists of jurymen for the county of Norfolk (UK). The name Hambleton Custance (High Sheriff for Norfolk) appears on some of the press clippings and he may have been the compiler of the scrap-book.
Papers relating to an unsuccessful expedition to British Somaliland to prespect for diamonds and garnets, 1906.
Included are a Memorandum of agreement between J.R. Emerson, W.H. Pring and E.J. Pullinger on the expedition, sponsored by Pullinger and led by R.S. Barnard Williams; Somaliland game and prospecting licences and mining regulations; report on the expedition by R.S. Barnard Williams; correspondence, telegrams and financial statements.
R. Hon. Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount, 1854-1924 (British Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor).
Anglo-Boer War Letters. Letters to W.H. Long from, amongst others, his son Captain Walter (Toby) Long (1879-1912), Colonel R. Chaloner and Major Harry Scobell, describing skirmishes with the Boers in the Transvaal and the Cape and the Kimberley engagement in which Walter Long was wounded. Includes letters from Walter written from India, 1909-1910, and Canada, 1910.
