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Colin S. Goodman Papers

  • ZA HPRA A1434
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1977

Brochures, photographs and memoranda on the work of the Johannesburg City Council's Housing Division, including material on Soweto, Riverlea, Oriental Plaza, construction techniques, housing for the Black and Coloured communities at the time as well as vocational training at the George Tabor Vocational Training Centre in Dube. Also included a tour of the Transvaal Homelands in 1967.

Goodman, Colin S.

Papers of Edward James Pullinger

  • ZA HPRA A1437
  • Fonds
  • 1906

Papers relating to an unsuccessful expedition to British Somaliland to prespect for diamonds and garnets, 1906.

Included are a Memorandum of agreement between J.R. Emerson, W.H. Pring and E.J. Pullinger on the expedition, sponsored by Pullinger and led by R.S. Barnard Williams; Somaliland game and prospecting licences and mining regulations; report on the expedition by R.S. Barnard Williams; correspondence, telegrams and financial statements.

Sword album

  • ZA HPRA A144
  • Fonds
  • 1926

Album with photographs of swords, with handwritten explanatory notes, possibly compiled by Major Pullar.

Church of The Nazarene records

  • ZA HPRA A1441
  • Fonds
  • 1907 - 1980

Establishment of first school of the church of the Nazarene in Africa Married Rev. H.A. Shirley who later headed printing work of the Nazarenes.

Proceedings of the General Assembly.

Possible funding of Swazi Schools.

Facts about Nazarene Foreign Missions.

Africa mission Station Reports, 1911-1923.

Reports to General Missionary Board Reynolds, Rev. H.F.

Girdling the globe with Nazarene Missions - 1961-1980.

Information on world mission work & on missionaries.

History of missions, Guide to Historic Resource Materials.

Names of major correspondents: Etta Innis (later Shirley), Rev. Dr. H.F. Reynolds, Brother Andersson, Irene Jester, Myrtle Pelley, Bertha Parker, Margaret Latta, Dr. William Esselstyn, Louise Robinson, Harmon & Lula Schmelgenbach, Ora Lovelace.

Names of sub-groups:

Pentecostal Church of Nazarene.

Department of Foreign Missions.

Nazarene Headquarters Library.

General Missionary Board.

Church of the Nazarene (U.S.A.)

Walter Hume Long, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A1442
  • Fonds
  • 1900 - 1903

R. Hon. Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount, 1854-1924 (British Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor).

Anglo-Boer War Letters.
Letters to W.H. Long from, amongst others, his son Captain Walter (Toby) Long (1879-1912), Colonel R. Chaloner and Major Harry Scobell, describing skirmishes with the Boers in the Transvaal and the Cape and the Kimberley engagement in which Walter Long was wounded. Includes letters from Walter written from India, 1909-1910, and Canada, 1910.

Fortnightly Club Johannesburg, Records

  • ZA HPRA A146
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1908

Minute-book of meetings 1-26, 4 Oct. 1906-11 Jun. 1908, including rules and original membership list; minute-book of committee meetings 1-4, 25 Apr.-28 Nov. 1907; 15 papers read by the following members C.L. Andersson, G.L. Craig, L. Curtis, R. Feetham, H.J. Hofmeyr, W.L. Honnold, J.C. Lyttleton, D.O. Malcolm, F. Perry, J.H. Pim, J. Stratford and W.S. Webber.

Subjects include race relations, Transvaal labour situation, colonialism, immigration of Asiatics, university education and the problems of the South African Federation.

English pilot, Extracts

  • ZA HPRA A147
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1785

'Beskrivelse udtaget af den Engelske Peiloth og oversat paa Dansk i aaret ao 1784 & 1785 af Her Fagtoer Woliam til notte for siine landsmend'. 287p. Ms vol.

Extracts from The English PIlot, translated into Danish in 1784 and 1785 by Mr. Fagtoer Woliam for the use of his countrymen.

Papers of John Gaspard Gubbins

  • ZA HPRA A1479
  • Fonds
  • 1877 - 1981

Correspondence, personal documents, biographical notes, memoranda, photographs and a scrap-book relating primarily to the acquisition of his Africana library, its transfer to the University of the Witwatersrand and destruction by fire in 1931 and to his voyage round the world in 1932-1933 to try and make good his losses. Correspondence is mainly with H.R. Raikes, Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, but other correspondents include Sir William Dalrymple, M.W. Gray, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, P.W. Laidler, J.H. Pim and General J.C. Smuts.

Also correspondence of Dr. P.H. Butterfield re., his biography of Dr. Gubbins.

Gubbings, John Gaspard

Robert Dundas Thomson, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A148
  • Fonds
  • 1832-1833

'Journal of a voyage from England to Bombay, China and the Cape of Good Hope in 1832 and 1833'

Describes his voyage as assistant surgeon on the 'Duchess of Atholl' in the service of the East India Company. Pages 398-433 relate to a visit to the Cape from 15-24 January 1833, in which he comments on the social life at the Cape, a visit to Mr. Cloete at Constantia to see his vineyards and cellars, and on George Thompson, the traveler.

The journal is illustrated with color drawings of the 'Duchess of Atholl' and the flags of the East India Company and pen and ink hand-drawn map of the Cape and geological sketch of the Mountain and Table Bay.

Thomson, Robert Dundas

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