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Robert Brooke

  • ZA HPRA A737
  • Fonds
  • 1795 - 1798

The Brooke letters, No. 4050 IV in the Oppenheimer Library, were written by Robert Brooke, Governor of St. Helena, to Earl Macartney, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

The letters show that Brooke felt feelings of warm friendship for Earl Macartney, to whom he acknowledged a debt of gratitude for the interest he had shown in his affairs.

As governors of neighbouring territories both men had problems in common and were able to assist each other. When Macartney was very short of specie at the Cape, Brooke was able to raise a private loan of 2500 to help him out of his difficulties.

Amongst the subjects discussed in the letters were the taking and future government of the Cape, the plan to attack Spanish South America, the progress of the war against the French, the convoying of East India Company ships and the seizure of neutral ships which are trading illegally.

Brooke, Robert

Earl George Macartney

  • ZA HPRA A736
  • Fonds
  • 1795 - 1806

This volume, No. 6685 in the Oppenheimer Library, consists of 14 letters bound together (and 4 loose items in a pocket at the back), with a calligraphed title page.

The letters are mainly to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Secretary of State for War from 1794-1801, and are bound in the following manner:.

William John Burchell Papers

  • ZA HPRA A342
  • Fonds
  • 1795 - 1865

The collection contains the papers of William John Burchell (1781-1865), artist, naturalist and traveller. With the exception of few original manuscripts and notebooks, most items consist of transcriptions made by Mrs H.M. McKay.

Correspondence, some originals and some Ms transcripts by H.M. McKay, of early letters 1795-1805, letters from St. Helena 1806-1810, letters from South Africa 1811-1815 and letters between Burchell and his family, friends and scientific colleagues 1824-1865, Names of correspondents include H. Alexander, Earl Bathurst, Earl of Caledon, Sir W.J. Hooker, W. Goddard Jackson, H. Nourse, J. Phillips, Marquess of Salisbury, Lord C.H. Somerset, Sir A. Stockenstroom, W. Swainson, D. Turner and J.O. Westwood.

An Ms transcript of the St. Helena Journal, Ts transcript of unpublished journal May-Sep. 1812 and a Hg journal Jan.-Mar.21, 1863; transcript of annotations in Burchell's own copy of his Travels; Hg poem 'Address to "Lot", rock in the Island of St. Helena'; financial records and copies of family wills; catalogues of the books and pictures in the Burchell estate and other miscellaneous papers.

Also included is the sorted material of research and publications, collected and submitted by H.M. McKay. The material is relating to her extensive study of W.J. Burchell.

Mock, a written will

  • ZA HPRA A152
  • Fonds
  • 16 September 1795

Will of William of Nassau and his wife distributing their possessions to various individuals at the Cape.

Papers of Sir James Henry Craig

  • ZA HPRA A24
  • Fonds
  • 1796 - 1797

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.

Craig, Sir James Henry

C.F. von Huegel, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A151
  • Fonds
  • 8 June 1796

Letter, The Hague, to the 'Burgers Representanten' appointed by the National Assembly.

Encloses papers relating to his case and says he was the only captain of the whole Cape garrison who remained faithful to the Batavian Republic and did not submit to the English at the Cape.

Maurits Bartels, Papers

  • ZA HPRA A153
  • Fonds
  • 1796-1801

Merchant, Cape of Good Hope

Correspondence and papers addressed to De Heeren J. Temmink en C. Van Twist, Amsterdam, re business affairs.

Moodie Family, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A79
  • Fonds
  • 1796-1877

The Moodie Family originated from Melsetter House, Orkney Islands

Letters between members of the family on personal and family affairs, the efforts to establish themselves at the Cape of Captain Benjamin Moodie (1789-1856), Lt. Donald Moodie (1794-1861) and J.W.D. Moodie (1797-1869), and of the difficulties experienced by Donald Moodie in publishing a series of early Cape Archives called The Record (Cape Town, Robertson, 1838-1841). Includes a letter from Thomas Moodie to C.A. Fairbridge commenting on Lord Carnarvon's proposed scheme of confederation for Southern Africa.

Also notes from the Dictionary of National Biography on various members of the Moodie family, an Ms on Donald Moodie and Ms on the family tree of Johannes Smuts, into whose family Donald Moodie's son married.

Papers of Baron Adolf Victor Von Koerber

  • ZA HPRA A807
  • Fonds
  • 1797 - 1968

The papers of Baron Adolf Victor von Koerber consist of correspondence, personal documents, notes, typescripts, printed items, photographs, scrap-books and press clippings.

In addition to being of von Koerber family interest, the papers reflect the military and political history of Germany in particular and Europe in general between 1914 and 1968. There is much about the two World Wars, the rise of National Socialism in Germany between the wars and the settlement in Europe after the Second World War. The photographic section contains many interesting items relating to aeroplanes and airmen pre 1918 and the typescripts include an account of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 by a von Koerber ancestor.

Baron von Koerber kept up a voluminous correspondence, which resulted in there being 2229 letters preserved amongst his papers. The incoming letters and copies of his outgoing letters are arranged together in two sequences (1) Occasional correspondents, arranged chronologically and (2) Regular correspondents, arranged first alphabetically and then chronologically. Amongst the many distinguished correspondents are Admiral E. Batsch, Sir Henry Deterding, General Ferdinand Deutelmoser, André François-Poncet, Georg Jarecki, General Erich Ludendorff, Father Friedrich Muckermann, Arnold Rechberg, the Ullstein Family (famous publishing firm), Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm.

Von Koerber, Adolf Victor

Papers of Rev. Hopkins Badnall

  • ZA HPRA AB723
  • Fonds
  • 1798 - 1952

Included are diary extracts, correspondence, personal and family documents, notes and miscellaneous papers, press clippings and printed works.

The papers are predominantly of family interest but there are occasional comments of a social or political nature, pertaining to South Africa, and a some concern the Anglican Church in South Africa, including the controversies which nearly split the church asunder such as the Gray - Colenso and Meaman - Williams disputes and the Third Proviso Agitation, all of which played their part in determining the relationship between the Church of the Province of South Africa and the Church of England.

There are a number of interesting documents relating to Badnall's ecclesiastical offices, containing the seals of Bishops Gray and West Jones of Cape Town.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

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