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Marianne (Alewijn) Faure, Notebook, 1853
"Mijne eerste Afrikaansche excursie". The experiences of the wife of a minister who travelled by ox-wagon from Pietermaritzburg to Ladysmith and back.
Marianne (Alewijn) Faure
Journey: August 8, 1854 – November 11, 1854
The James Lycett Journal describes a “Journey to Namaqualand from Cape Town, commenced on Tuesday August 8th, 1854 in company with J. Calvert Esq., Coachman John Southgate, and Daangie, a Hottentot” (p.1) Another man named March, described as a “Hottentot boy,” also travelled with them. The Journal ends on November 11, 1854, with Lycett alone in Hondeklip Bay.
The Lycett party was part of the Namaqualand copper boom of 1854, and crossed paths with other prospectors, local farmers, and some government officials, including Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor General, and Dr. William Guybon Atherstone, who later reported on the geology of the region to the Government. Atherstone kept three notebooks of his 1854 trip to Namaqualand, which describe similar struggles of travel but offer a different perspective on the people he met - including John Calvert.
The Atherstone notebooks are held in the Albany Museum in Grahamstown (Makhanda) in the Section that used to be the Settler Museum. My thanks to Dr. Elizabeth van Heyningen, Honorary Research Associate [HRA], History Department, University of Stellenbosch, for this information.
Lycett, James
Medical report on J.P. Minnaar who has applied to have his life insured by the Mutual Life Assurance society.
Governor of Cape Colony, 1854-1859
Letter written from King Williams Town, requesting copies of early missionary publications to help him acquire a complete collection of works published in the South African native dialects.
Rev. Henry Tindall, Transcript
Wesleyan missionary
'A grammar and vocabulary of the Namaqua-Hottentot language'
A transcript of the published work, Cape Town, 1857.
Printer, publisher and M.L.A.
Part of a letter written from Natal, to S. Solomon, Cape Town. Refers to lecture notes which he will send Solomon and comments on Natal politics. Mentions John Fairbairn. Also memorial card for S. Solomon, with 'In Memoriam' verses by W.E. Gladstone Solomon.
Bible, New Testament, Thessalonians
Incwadi yika Paulosi umtunywa ebalelwe abasemafesiosini, 1858 Apr.10.
The Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians translated into Zulu.
Robben Island Light House, Correspondence
Transcript of correspondence relating to the construction of a light house on Robben Island, annotated by Sir T. Maclear
Includes correspondence between the government and the Commercial Exchange Committee, Admiralty and surveying reports, notes on Table Bay and on ships wrecked on Robben Island. Correspondents include Lt. J. Dayman, W. Hope, G. Pilkington, R.W. Rawson, F. Skead and Commodore Talbot.
Champion of the Freedom of the Press and of the Anti-Convict movement, M.L.A., editor of the South African Commercial Advertiser
Letters addressed to Fairbairn as editor of the South African Commercial Advertiser from correspondents including W. Porter, W. Robertson and Sir J. Wylde. Subjects are rainfall, shortage of money, South African College and the assault on a "Hottentot".
Also Ms poem 'The Cape of Good Hope', 1836, and an article on Fairbairn from the Cape Argus of 26 Mar. 1921.
South African College, Cape Town, Records
Handwritten letter from Rev. M. Borcherds, 29 Sep. 1829, Cape Town to Dr. De Wet, outlining procedure for opening of College; Report by N. Fairbairn and De Wet on the state of the South African College, 5p. Ms; Address by De Wet to the South African College complaining of 'the exorbitant salaries of some of our civil functionaries and the close system of government' and criticising the Government for misapplying funds collected for educational purposes, 20p. Ms; ALS from General Wynyard 14 Dec. 1859 to the Council of Directors suggesting that 'some one more worthy' should award the prizes. 2p.