231 letters to Miss Alice Wills, Mission School, Walthamstow, 1829-1845 from Mrs. Jane Philip, Mary Christie (née Philip) and George Christie from South Africa and from T. Durant Philip in Britain. The letters are personal but contain references to mission work in South Africa.

Also included a torn fragment of a letter by Dr. Philip c.1830, letter from Captain Campbell to Thomas Pringle, 28 Mar, 1826, re an agricultural fair, letter from Thomas Phillips to Pringle, 26 Jul. 1827, re Cape politics, 2 letters from Pringle to Dr. Philip, 19 Jan. 1833 and 23 Aug. 1834, re Cape politics, and a letter from Kitchingman to Dr. Philip, 26 Dec. 1834, re an attack by the Xhosas. In addition there is a diary letter 1818-1819 to Dr. Philip, from a minister of religion in Scotland, on church affairs, portraits of Mr. & Mrs. William Philip and press clippings on the 1820 Settlers and the death of Mrs. Jane Philip.

Contemporary copies of letters from captains of vessels to Rear Admiral James R. Dacres, Commander-in-Chief, Simon's Bay, regarding the erection of a lighthouse on Cape Agulhas.

Traveller and missionary to the Jews

ALS, 8 Jun.1838, Dublin, to W. Cranford, London, giving the news that Dublin University has conferred an Hon. LL.D. on him and inviting him to address the University (2p);

ALS, 19 May 1848, Edinburgh (?), to Lady McNeile, declining an invitation and detailing his engagements. Also press cutting containing biography of Wolff.

Illuminated 'letters patent' on the establishment of the Diocese of Cape Town.

Governor of Cape Colony 1847-1852

Instructions relative to the buildings and posts to be established in British Kaffraria, endorsed by H. Smith.

Author of Historical sketch of Zulu Mission in South Africa

Zulu-English vocabulary notebook.

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.

Terms of setting up a Commission between Britain and Portugal, for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade to be carried into immediate execution.

Including:
Commission, 21 Nov. 1842, signed by the Earl of Aberdeen, appointing G. Frere, commissioner, and F.R. Surtees, arbitrator, to meet the Portuguese representatives at the Cape for the adjudication of claims made under a treaty concluded in 1842 between Great Britain and Portugal for the suppression of slavery; letter, 4 Feb. 1846, to George Frere, London, from Dan Prince, re a sea passage; 2 letters, 1 May and 12 Sep. 1846, from Margaret to her father-in-law George Frere, London, personal with comments on the so called “Kaffir” War; letter, 21 Sep. 1850, from George, Junior to his father, thanking him for the map of the Cape and commenting on the work of making a new constitution for the colony.

Comtesse de, Author of The Gentleman digger, London, S. Low, 1891, and A son of Africa, London, Greening 1899.

'The burning of Johannesburg, a Christmas story of South Africa founded on historic fact.
Relates to the Tyumie valley massacre of the military villages at Woburn and Auckland on Christmas Day 1850.

Merchant of Fenchurch Street, London, who travelled extensively to the Far East, calling at the Cape of Good Hope

Bound volume 1831-1839 (492p), loose pages 1840-1841 (78p) and loose pages 1852 (15p). Pages 103-131 (1833-1834) and 243-356 (1835-1836) in the bound volume describe visits to the Cape.