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Traveller and missionary to the Jews
ALS, 8 Jun.1838, Dublin, to W. Cranford, London, giving the news that Dublin University has conferred an Hon. LL.D. on him and inviting him to address the University (2p);
ALS, 19 May 1848, Edinburgh (?), to Lady McNeile, declining an invitation and detailing his engagements. Also press cutting containing biography of Wolff.
Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
This collection comprises the records of some of the land companies within the massive Schlesinger organisation, with the focus, through sheer volume, being on Zebediela Citrus Estate.
Numerous problems arose when trying to devise a cataloguing system: on the one hand were the citrus estates themselves and on the other, their financial underpinning of the real estate and investment companies that formed part of the Schlesinger Organisation. This was further complicated by the mergers, purchases and liquidations of the holding companies.
Was one then to organise the material in terms of holding company - African Realty Trust, African Irrigated Land Company and so on - or citrus estate? While Zebediela was obviously the focus of the collection, it could equally have been catalogued as merely one of the larger African Realty Trust concerns.
A compromise was therefore struck between chronological and substantive coherence and commercial accuracy. Thus sections A-C are concerned primarily with Citriculture, and are classified according to estate - Zebediela, Letaba and Nuden respectively. By 1962, Muden, Letaba and Zebediela had all been consolidated Into one company - Consolidated Citrus Estates, and thus form section D.
There is an artificial distinction between Sections A and E - Zebediela and African Realty Trust, respectively; however, in the interests of coherence, this was felt to he justifiable.
Unfortunately, few records remain to document events at Zebediela beyond the early 1960s. Zebediela then fell within Lebowa, having been taken over by the South African Bantu Trust in the mid 1970s. The latter, in turn handed it over to the Bantu Investment Corporation in 1976 for the sum of R1. 2 million.
Other records in this collection document, in bare outline, developments in other land companies owned by the Schlesinger Organisation.
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Rev. James Arthur Calata Papers
The Calata Papers consist of 1636 items covering the period 1909-1974 and include diaries, correspondence, notebooks, notes, sermons, addresses, minutes, memoranda, map, printed items, photographs and music.
The papers describe Calata's work in the church in the Eastern Cape, his role of schoolmaster, riots at St. Matthew's College, Keiskammahoek, and Lovedale, his notes on his ban and treason trial, education, and official records of several of the associations in which he was involved: the Cape African Parents Association, the Board of Missions, the Cathedral Chapter, the International African Ministers Federation, Pathfinders and Wayfarers Scouts.
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Missionary
Letter by Sesheke, N. Rhodesia to Miss C. Mackintosh (niece of the Rev. Coillard), Eastbourne, England.
Comments on the 1st World War, the German occupation of Belgium, where some of his family live, the difficulties of carrying on mission work in Barotseland and the British occupation of the Caprivi Strip. Attached is a page of notes, in a different hand, comparing the Barotse child's Lekhothla with Zimbabwe Ruins and describing the Barotse method of building forts.
Explorer and Captain of Cavalry
9 letters to his sister, 1895, from Barotseland, Bechuanaland and Natal; Hg notes for his book Au pays des Ba-Rotse (Paris, 1898); Meteorological notes, Feb. 1889; 25 sketch maps showing his route; gun licence for Bechuanaland, 1892.
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, Recordings
The recording of songs were made during a visit by Sol Plaatje to the UK, on behalf of the then South African National Native Congress (SANNC later ANC). They were recorded at the studios of the Gramophone Co. Ltd. In Hayes, Middlesex on 16 October 1923.
Sol Plaatje, singing, was accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the piano, the daughter of Francis Ernest Colenso, son of the Bishop of Natal John William Colenso.
The record contains the very first recording of "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrica", also listed here as "Hark 'tis the Watchman's Cry".
The following songs are included:
"Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", also known as "Hark 'tis the Watchman's Cry (Hymn in Sechuana)
"Lead Kindly Light" (Hymn in Sechuana)
"Pesheya Ko Tukela" (Across the Tugela, a Hlubi folk song)
"Singa Mawele" (We are Twins, Dance melody in IsiXhoza)
"A band of hard pressed men are we" (Hymn in IsiXhoza)
"The Kaffir Wedding Song" (J.K. Bhokwe) (Sung in IsiXhoza)
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Hon. Thesis by Catherine Higgs, entitled "The political thought and career of Edgar H. Brookes", submitted to the Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1984.
Missionary of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.)
'Extracts from the narrative of the journey of Mr. Read and others to Caffraria, dated Bethelsdorp, May 21, 1816'.
In the form of a letter to the Director of the London Missionary Society, Read describes a journey to the Eastern Cape, during which he met the prophet Makana and the Xhosa chief Gaika. There are references to Dr. J.T. van der Kemp's pioneer work in the missionary field.
Letter, Johannesburg to W.R. Morrison, Cape Town, about the Rev. Prosper Lemue of the Paris Evangelical Mission.
Lemue performed the marriage ceremony of David Livingstone and Mary Moffat at Kuruman.
Rev. Francois Coillard, Papers
French Missionary
Holographs relating to the Barotse; ethnological notes; meteorological notes 1888-1889; copies of letters, 1913, between Sir Ralph Williams and Miss C.W. Mackintosh (niece of Mme Coillard) Concerning the claim that Mme Coillard was the first white woman to visit (1878) the Victoria Falls; photographs of the Rev. Louis Jalla, Rev. Francois Coillard and Mabotsa.