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Sir John Frederick Herschel

  • ZA HPRA A52
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  • 1834

Astronomer

Letter, 1834 Mar, Cape of Good Hope, to his brother-in-law, Dr. Duncan Stewart. Supplies a reading list as requested by Stewart 'You ask me to recommend you a course of study, to name the books which should be regarded as standard and pre-eminent authorities ...'. The letter was published in South African Libraries, 7:138-154, 1940.

Edward Solomon, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A301
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  • 15 August 1835

Letter written from Cape Town to the Rev. J. Canham, describing his conversion from the Jewish to the Christian faith under the influence of Dr. Philip.

Cape of Good Hope, Subscription list

  • ZA HPRA A520
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  • 1836

Subscription list for the proposed Cape of Good Hope Steam Navigation Company, 1836, printed form completed in handwriting.

Announced a meeting for 15 June 1836 and includes the signatures J.E. Alexander, J.C. Chase, A. Chiappini, B.J. Ebden and J. Fairbairn.

Cape of Good Hope, Receipt for duties

  • ZA HPRA A526
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  • 16 December 1836

Receipt for duties on the sale of the hull, rigging and stores of a condemned French ship, signed by W. Field, Collector of H.M. Customs. Countersigned by F. de Lettre, French consul-agent in Cape Town.

John Honiball, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A256
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  • 1811-1837

Letters to Honiball in the Cape from his brother Thomas in London, and from his nephews and nieces, Henry and Elizabeth Jervis and John and Jane Honiball mainly about family matters.

Maria Stella Petronilla (Chiappini) Freifrau von Ungern Sternberg, Manuscript

  • ZA HPRA A125
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  • 1838

'Maria Stella, ou echange criminel d'une demoiselle du plus haut rang, contre un garcon de la condition la plus vile. A Paris et dans les departements chez les principaux libraires, 1838'.

Maria Stella was the daughter of Lorenzo Chiappini. Her first husband was Thomas Wynn, who became Baron Newborough, and after the latter's death, she married Baron Edward Ungern Sternberg, a Russian. Maria claimed to be the legitimate daughter of Louis Philippe, duke of Orleans, and to have been exchanged at birth for a male child afterwards Louis Philippe, King of France. A. Castelot in his Philippe Egalite, 1950 has finally demolished the legend. Maria's brother Antonio settled at the Cape and is the founder of the family Chiappini at the Cape.

Fort Beaufort, Pass

  • ZA HPRA A553
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  • 19 November 1838

Pass issued to Fingo male to fetch his family from Uitenhage, signed by G. Mole, Justice of the Peace, Fort Beaufort.

Jane Bird Papers

  • ZA HPRA A193
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  • 1837-1838

Includes Ms letter, of a personal nature, undated but probably about Christmas 1837, to Jane from a friend. Also an eyewitness account of the massacre in 1838 of Piet Retief's party of Boers at Dingaan's kraal, where Mrs. Bird was one of a party, including the Rev. Francis Owen, who intended to establish a mission station. The account was narrated and signed by her on 6 Nov. 1877 at Klipplastfontein and witnessed by Charles Tobias and Charles Orpen.

Henry Tracey, Diary

  • ZA HPRA A119
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  • March - December 1838

Assistant Surgeon on H.M.S. 'Melville'

Describes a stay in Cape Town when the 'Melville' went to St. Helena and Tracey remained behind to look after the Admiral's family, the dockyard officers and men left behind from the 'Melville'. He comments on the social customs of Cape Town and the Malay Khalifah ceremony. Included are sketches of Farmer Peck's Inn, Muizenberg, called 'The Gentle Shepherd', Newlands House, Wynberg Church, Cape Flats and a water-colour of Simon's Town Martello Tower and Battery.

Cape Town, diaries

  • ZA HPRA A199
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  • 1799-1839

Extracts from diaries kept by Australian immigrants during their visits to Cape Town en route to Australia.

Extract from Mrs. King's journal of her 2nd voyage to New South Wales, which commenced the 20th of November 1799; descriptions of Cape Town from diaries of Arthur Hardy, 1838, Henry Watson, 1839, Dr. Charles Davies, 1839 and William Hamilton 1854.

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