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Neame family papers
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Photographs

A number of these photographs originate from the scrapbooks, see section C, and were either removed of got detached from the scrapbook.

Scrapbook, Maude Barlow personal

Containing letters, clips, business cards, photos, concert programmes and flyers relating to Maude Barlow's singing career in the UK (Brighton) and South Africa with various orchestras; concerts for the WWI war fund; autograph by violinist Mischa Elman; family tree of the Solomon family in South Africa; letter of condolence on the death of Primrose Neame, by Arthur Barlow, dated 10 May 1956; events for the National War Fund; concert programme and clips re Mimi Coertse; photos and news clips about Mrs Henry Smit, mother of Maude Barlow, and Smit family; family photographs of Bobby Neame and his family; portrait photographs of Maude Barlow during her life; artist Dorothee Kay; Bobby and Primrose, their children and academic achievements; news magazine pages of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' for theatre, directed by Ronald Neame, (British) film maker; photograph of the Stead family, and related news clips about the Titanic; news clips of Winston Churchill's funeral, January 1965; letters of reply to Maude Barlow from the offices of Winston Churchill and General Smuts; news clips relating to Ian Smith, meetings in South Africa 1967, an the independence of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Stored in oversize folder.

Family history

Family tree, loose notes and typescripts with family history relating to the Barlow, Smit and Neame families.

Scrapbook, various

Various news cuttings of Indian philosophers; the role and history of the Anglican Church in South Africa; Maude Barlow's artistic work and sculptures; family history relating to the family of Earl of Minto Viceroy of India, the Elliot and the Neame families; drawings by Maude Barlow; photos and clips relating to Graham Neame attending St Andrew's College; WWI War Memorial and photographs; publications in medical journals by Peter Neame; news clips relating to the death of W.A. Campbell and his wife Killie Campbell's collection of Africana at Muckleneuk in Durban; news clips covering the implementation of separate development (Apartheid) by the National Party, October 1961; the death of Winston Churchill; death of Killie Campbell, September 1963; new book publication by Arthur Barlow; photos and letter of admission of Peter Neame to the New York Academy of Sciences; life and work of Sophy Gray, wife of Robert Gray, the first Anglican Bishop in South Africa; photos and news clips covering the life and death of the Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII). Stored in oversize folder. Stored in oversize folder.

Correspondence

Letter from Rex Welsh indicating that his father, AS Welsh KC, wished to donate to the Bar Library a set of volumes of the 'Famous British Trials' series (A7.1(a)).

Correspondence re Red Cross Society

Relating to donations she made to the Red Cross Society during World War II; letters of thanks for parcels received from the Red Cross during World War II, with proceeds from concerts given by Maude Barlow.

Gordon Smit

Brother of Maude Barlow, a former Mayor of Bloemfontein. Included correspondence with his mother Mrs Henry F.T. Smit.

Letters from prison

Sylvia Neame was held on two occasions under the 90-day law, in Pretoria Central for the whole of her first detention and 2 weeks of her second detention, as well as in Fordsburg police station, and was charged for membership of the CP, awaiting trial for 9 months in the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg, immediately thereafter taken down to Port Elizabeth and housed in the North End Gaol for some months during her Humansdorp trial, thereafter taken to Barberton Prison. After her release from Barberton Prison in April 1967, she left South Africa in May 1967.

Sylvia Neame was one of 14 accused in the trial The State vs Abram Fischer and 13 Others. The were charged in August 1964 for contravening the Suppression of Communism Act, and included Abram Fischer (accused no. 1), Ivan Frederick Schermbrucher, Eli Weinberg, Esther Barsel, Norman Levy, Lewis Baker, Jean Strachan (Middleton), Ann Nicholson, Constantinos Gazidis, Paul Henry Trewhela, Sylvia Brereton Neame, Florence Duncan, Mollie Irene Doyle and Hymie Barsel. They were found guilty and sentenced in April 1965. After his re-arrest Abram Fischer was charged in November 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment on the 4 May 1966.

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