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Charles Lamb

  • ZA HPRA A759
  • Fundos
  • 1827 - 1834

The papers consist 6 items probably relating to the period 1827-1834. There are prints of Lamb himself and of Christ's Hospital, a wash drawing of Lamb's house at Islington, a letter from Lamb to Thomas Pringle, page-proofs of Pringle's African sketches, London, Moxon, 1834 and a note in Lamb's handwriting attached to the proofs. The papers are of South African interest because of the Pringle proofs which contain manuscript revisions and comments by Lamb, Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) was a Scottish poet, 1820 settler to South Africa, librarian at Cape Town and co-founder with John Fairbairn of the South African Commercial Advertiser, who incurred the displeasure the governor Lord Charles Somerst because of his political writings and had to return to England in 1826. From then until his death he was secretary of the Anti-slavery Society and concentrated on his literary pursuits. Pringle is important as being the first poet to write in English on South African subjects.

In 1828 Pringle published Ephemerides: occasional poems written in Scotland and South Africa, Smith, Elder & Co. London.?.

Out of the 6 poems in the page proofs, 4 had been published in this volume. It appears that even after publication Pringle was willing to polish up and revise his poems. Not only did he submit them to Lamb for criticism but also to S.T. Coleridge. In the Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library - Vol. 23 No. 3, March 1969; p. 68, -? Dr Lewin Robinson describes the Pringle page proofs, with manuscript revisions and corrections by Coleridge, which had been acquired by the South African Library at a Sotheby's auction in 1968.

The Lamb papers were bought in May 1972 by the Library from Francis Edwards, the London dealer. According to Dr Lewin Robinson the Lamb papers cane up for auction at Sotheby's in 1968 at the same time as the Coleridge papers. The provenance prior to this is lost, other than that Pringle's widow gave the proof sheets to Adam White (1817-1874), the British naturalist, according to notes by White in the papers.

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Alfred Beit, Bequest

  • ZA HPRA A576
  • Fundos
  • 1906 - 1916

On the bequest of £200,000 left by Alfred Beit to 'The University of Johannesburg' and the subsequent history of the bequest. Correspondents incluee O. Beit, B.F. Hawksley, F.S. Malan, L.Phillips, J.C. Smuts and Sir J. Wernher.

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Sir Andrew Smith, Natural history papers

  • ZA HPRA A614
  • Fundos
  • 1825 - 1850

Handwritten letters of which 12 were replies to a questionnaire sent out by Smith from the South African Museum asking for information on the habits of the tiger wolf. A printed copy in Dutch of this questionnaire together with the answers completed in handwriting on the opposite page, also in Dutch. The questionnaire was published in the Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser of 9 June 1826. Appeals were made in this newspaper by Smith during 1826 for zoological information and the other letters are mainly in response to them. Correspondents included Dr. J. Atherstone, D. Campbell, Edward and Thomas Philipps and George Rex.

2 other letters of later date (1) 21 Jul. 1838, from T.E. cantor, on the classification of reptiles; (2) 13 Mar. 1850, Newera Ellin, from E. Kelaart, also on reptiles and enclosing a water-color drawing of a frog. Notes on the natural history of South Africa, some of which were compiled by Smith.

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Papers of Fairbairn family

  • ZA HPRA A663
  • Fundos
  • 1781 - 1917

Draft - Press release for Fairbairn Papers.

The papers cover the years 1781-1917 and relate to four generations of the Fairbairn family. There are personal documents and correspondence of John Fairbairn, who arrived in South Africa in 1823. He became involved in the prevailing fight for the freedom of the press being waged against Lord Charles Somerset. He edited and later became sole owner of the South African Commercial Advertiser, an early Cape newspaper, which advocated reform. He became a national figure, was elected to Legislative Council and served as chairman of the South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, of which he was a founder.

John Fairbairn's wife, Eliza, was a daughter of Dr. John Philip, missionary and champion of the rights of the native peoples of South Africa. There are papers belonging to the Philip family in this collection. These assist in providing information lost with the destruction of the Philip papers in the fire at the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand in 1931. Eliza Fairbairn's correspondence, although primarily personal, gives the woman's point of view of life at the Cape in the twenties and thirties of last century. There is an interesting scrapbook, presented to her by her father, which contains the letters and autographs of eminent men such as Lafayette, Lord Macaulay, Sir Walter Scott and William Wilberforce.

Other items of particular interest are a collection of photographs of hospitals used during the South African War of 1899-1902, from the papers of John Fairbairn, grandson of John Fairbairn, who was Hon. Secretary of the Red Cross Society in South Africa. There are also the drafts of five sonnets by Thomas Pringle, South Africa's first poet to write in English, in his own handwriting and with emendations.

Papers of Andrew Geddes Bain

  • ZA HPRA A6
  • Fundos
  • 1825 - 1895

Geologist

Correspondence, lists of fossils, notes and press clippings on Bain's geological investigations and palaeontological discoveries in South Africa, the construction of roads in Cape Colony and the discovery of metals in Namaqualand.

Bain corresponded regularly with officials of the Geological Society of London. Names of correspondents include J.G. Bain, C.D. Bell, M. Borcherds, Sir C.H. Darling, Sir H.T. de la Beche, D. Draper, R. Godlonton, Sir G. Grey, Sir J.F.W. Herschel, T.R. Jones, E.L. Layard, Sir T. Maclear, C.C. Michell, Sir J. Montagu, Sir R. Murchison, R. Owen, Sir J.S. Packington, W. Richards, Sir R. Southey and H. Warburton.

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