The collection contains a letterbook, 30 September 1796 - 22 May 1797, entitled 'Homeward letters', containing copies of 25 letters (128 pages) from Craig to Colonel R. Brooke (Governor of St. Helena), J. Duncan (Governor of Bombay), Rt. Hon. H. Dundas (Secretary of State for War) and the Governor and Supreme Council, Bombay. Subjects are the shortage of money, corn and gunpoweder at the Cape, the transport of troops between India and the Cape, the use of slaves and raising of the Hottentot Corps and the state of the Napoleonic War.
Interviews with people associated with Sophiatown during the 1950s. The interviews were conducted by Pippa Stein and the Junction Avenue Theatre Company (who put on a performance Sophiatown in 1987). Interviewees include: Jane Dakile, Phillip Stein, Antony Sampson, Kortbooi, Bishop Trevor Huddleston, Ezekiel Mphahlele and Arthur Maimane.
The collection contains mainly publications by Rev. Colin Collins, which include poetry and stories about the author's personal life as well as religious issues in South Africa.
Included is also an earlier submission, being "A Watcher's View", an autobiographical article by Colin Collins, in which mention is made of his anti-Apartheid activities.
MA Thesis about the Swiss Mission in South Africa - Lemana Training Institution, by Inge Neugebauer, Master of Arts in African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2010, in German.
Title: "Ein Jahrzehnt der Ungewissheit: Von der Segregation zur Apartheid in einer Suedafrikanischen Schule. Lemana Training Institution 1948-1958."
Typescript for a publication entitled "Cold Storage Chronicle: The History of the Imperial Cold Storage". The typescript contains the history of cold storage in South Africa, no year. It was kept in the library of Dr. Vivian Solomon, former staff member of Wits University, at the Department of History, and was later donated to Historical Papers by his widow.