Explorer

'Journal of a cruise on the Tanganyika lake, Central Africa' and 'Captain J.H. Speke's discovery of the victoria Nyanza Lake, the supposed source of the Nile from his journal' 1859. Printer's proof copy interleaved with extensive Ms noted by the author.

Trader

'Reminiscences'. Some of the reminiscences were published in the Pretoria Chronicle, 27 Aug. 1908, The Sunday Times, 27 Aug, 1911 and in Pretoria Suburban and Premier Mine Advertiser, 5 Nov. 1913. They give an account of early trading conditions in Natal and Transvaal from his arrival in 1862, the establishment of the gold fields at Lydenburg and Pilgrims Rest and the Sekukuni uprising. James mentions Herbert Rhodes and Captain Alfred Aylward.

Letter written in Riversdale, to John Fairbairn and Henry White.

Address of welcome to their representatives in the House of Assembly, thanking them for their services not only in parliament but also to the colony as a whole. The signatures include those of P.B. Borcherds and J. Rose Innes. Badly charred.

Image of Sophy (Sophia) Gray (née Myddleton), by the photographer William Henry Southwell.

Sophy Gray was an architect the the wife of Robert Gray, first Bishop of Cape Town (1847) of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa.

Account of a journey in 1860 by passenger cart from Cape Town proceeding by the mail cart route via Caledon, Swellendam, Heidelberg, Riversdale and George to Oudtshoorn.

Headmaster of Wynberg School

'Memorandum of the claims of J. McNaughton, Master of the Govt. School at Wynberg, to increase of salary', Wynberg

Judge

Handwritten letter from Chambers, to Mr. Montagu, re civil service appointments; Ms article on punishment for cattle theft, (watermark).

The collection contains letter-books, with copies of correspondence and notes, and 5 loose letters, on the education of slaves, paper currency, William Parker's party of 1820 settlers, the 1825 Commission of Enquiry into the offices of Chief and Deputy Secretaries and Bird's removal from office.

Correspondents include Earl Bathurst, Earl of Caledon, Sir R. Donkin, Col. J. Graham, Rev. M. Hough, W. Parker, T. Seton and Lord C.H. Somerset. Also 5 notebooks, mainly on religious topics, manuscripts, a printed obituary of Bird and 'A concise narrative or memoir to serve to discriminate the principal occurrences which have brought the Cape of Good Hope into notice from the year 1820 to 1827 by an observer' by C.C. Bird, transcribed by Iris Bird, 1970 (100l.)

The journal relates to his Zambezi expedition.