Bianchi was foreign secretary to Lord Keith and spent several years at the Cape. Owing to the change of government he found himself without employment, and his letters which are addressed to Lord Melville, Lord Castlereagh and Lord Liverpool are mainly concerned with his straitened circumstances, and plead for their assistance in finding him a suitable post.

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.

Minute-books, correspondence, memoranda, plans, petitions for faculties and properties, parish registers of confirmations, baptisms, marriages and burials for Johannesburg and other Transvaal towns. Subjects are the administration of the diocese through its boards and committees, with particular reference to finance, properties, parish boundaries, missionary conferences and St. Mary's Cathedral.

Brigadier-General

Letter, Cape Town, to the African club severing his connection with that club.

The Joane Pim papers span the years 1939-1974, with the preponderance between the years 1950-1974 when Miss Pim was actively employed by the Anglo-American Corporation, although there are a few items going back as far as 1805.

They contain correspondence, minutes, reports, addresses, lectures, manuscript and typescript notes and notebooks, photographs and photographic albums, press cuttings, slides and plans as well as her book 'Beauty is Honorary'. Her private correspondence is to be regarded as 'Closed Access' for the next 10 years (until 1 January 1985).

The papers should be of great interest to several departments within the University. Her collection of slides illustrating her work in beautifying the gardens of many fine private homes, as well an the mines, would he of particular interest to the Department of Architecture and Town Planning. The botanical specimens and notes would he welcomed by the Department of Botany. Miss Pim's work covered the whole of South Africa and with the growing awareness of the need to preserve the best of the past, her papers are of national interest. Her death is a great loss to environmental consciousness in South Africa and particularly to landscape architecture of which the was a pioneer.

All the papers and printed items are of immense research value and will be preserved and made available to bona fide students and researchers.

East India man 'William Pitt'
Extract from the diary of Edmeades, 1806, describing the capture of Cape Town from the French.

Articles of agreement between Nicolls Raynsford and Henrietta Oliver.

Signed in the presence of Edward Raynsford by Nicolls Raynsford. Miss Oliver was about to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope as governess to Mr. Raynsford's daughters

Lawyer and book collector

Contains Ms poems, sketches, invitation cards, accounts, letters and printed items. Includes two printed proclamations, the first dated 24 Apr.1807 on the selling of bad drugs signed by Lt. Gen. H.G. Grey, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape and the second dated 27 Mar.1818 on the payment of dues for transfer of property signed by the Governor, Lord Charles Somerset. Also an undated broadsheet entitled 'Programme of Mr. O.J. Truter's triumphal procession'; valentine card for 1855; report on the memorial of certain Mahomedan priests and other Malays in Cape Town praying to be allowed to celebrate the Califa, 1855 (See The Califah question by J.S. de Lima, Cape Town, 1857); letter from W.C. Palgrave, 2 May 1876, Walvisch Bay, to Fairbridge, re botanical specimens; Ms genealogical tree of the De Jongh family.

Letters to Honiball in the Cape from his brother Thomas in London, and from his nephews and nieces, Henry and Elizabeth Jervis and John and Jane Honiball mainly about family matters.