Provisional Inventory.

The first donation of records came from Canon C.J. Rowland, Secretary of the Liturgical Committee, in September 1975. The second donation came from Cannon C.T. Wood, Archivist of the C.P.S.A, in March 1976. The third donation came from Rev. G. Bacon, in April 1983, and a further one from Bishop Bevan of Johannesburg, also April 1983.

The papers relate mostly to the life of George Wolfe Robert Tobias (1882-1974). This correspondence gives an excellent description of the Church's work in South West Africa and also of the conditions and customs of the tribes living there, both written and pictorially. The papers also touch on the Kwanyaaa language in which George became so successful. He translated the Prayer Book and produced a hymnal. Ho also translated Hermann Tones 'Kwanyama Ora Emar' from German into English.

Canon Charles Frederick Tobias (ca 1850-1939), George's father, and a converted Jew, in correspondence to his wife, Ethel, also gives an interesting account of life in the field, where he served as Chaplain in the Boer War 1900-1901.

The papers also consist of the skeletal draft of the biography of George Tobias by Rev. Basil I. C. Turvey which contains a vivid description of the life of George and his work on the mission station and the people connected with him and a brief description from the Encyclopaedia of Southern African South West Africa.

Note books and Registers.

St. Cuthbert's Mission: a historical sketch, 1970, 49 pages

Scrapbook about the history of St. Cuthbert's Mission, Tsolo, Transkei, from 1865 to 1970.

Contains photographs of the mission buildings including the church, school and hospital, groups of clergy, the Pondomise and of Bishop B.L. Key.

Berthold, Basil Stanley: Rector of St. Judes, Oudtshoorn 1959 1969, St. Oswalds, Milnerton from 1969.