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David Draper, Autobiography

  • ZA HPRA A586
  • Fonds
  • undated

Geologist

Unfinished reminiscences of his early life in the Cape and his association with men who made South African history. The Holograph ends abruptly at the beginning of chapter 2.

Commonplace books

  • ZA HPRA A604
  • Fonds
  • undated

Contains French poems and passages of prose.

Edward Millers, Scrap book

  • ZA HPRA A605
  • Fonds
  • 1839

Contains 19th century prints, mainly French and English royalty, nobility, men of letters and ministers of state, 1648-1837. Also printed poems and letters, handwritten notes and programs for the 'Order of Fire-works in St. James and Green Park for the Grand Jubilee, 1 Aug. 1814'. Inscription on title-page reads 'Mrs Edward Millers, Parsonage, Bognor, Sussex, 1839'.

Springbok Legion, Records

  • ZA HPRA A617
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1951

Includes minute-books of the various committees of the Springbok Legion, photographs and registers of ex-servicemen and of cash donations. The primary purpose of the Legion was the rehabilitation of ex-service personnel.

Constitutional Court Trust Oral History Project

  • ZA HPRA AG3368
  • Fonds
  • 2011-2012

The "Audible Legacy" Project aimed to capture the memories and experiences of the people involved in the formative stages of South Africa's Constitutional Court, to record in comprehensive, reliable and accessible form their memories of how an abstract constitutional ideal was converted into a functioning constitutional organism.

Constitutional Court Trust

Anne Barnard, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A557
  • Fonds
  • 23 May 1801

Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) was a Poet and letter-writer, wife of Andrew Barnard, Colonial Secretary at the Cape (1797-1802).

Letter from Cape of Good Hope, to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville, London. Gossips about Cape personalities, including the late Governor, Sir George Yonge.

John Hanning Speke, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A559
  • Fonds
  • mid 1800s

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), Explorer

Rejoices that Brun agrees with him that the Nyanza Lake is the true source of the White Nile and announces his intention to embark on a third expedition to Africa to settle the source of the Nile.

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