Printed obituary notice of Christopher Chapman Bird. (2p.).

87-174 numbered pages, 175-266 numbered pages. Contain religious notes.

With list of contents: includes letters on the Spanish Inquisition, extract from the Dublin Review of August 1841 on Colonel Bird's case and other miscellaneous notes, mainly of a religious nature.

With list of contents: contains extracts from books on the feudal system, on the development of pride and vanity among nations, on the Reformation, etc.

The collection contains letter-books, with copies of correspondence and notes, and 5 loose letters, on the education of slaves, paper currency, William Parker's party of 1820 settlers, the 1825 Commission of Enquiry into the offices of Chief and Deputy Secretaries and Bird's removal from office.

Correspondents include Earl Bathurst, Earl of Caledon, Sir R. Donkin, Col. J. Graham, Rev. M. Hough, W. Parker, T. Seton and Lord C.H. Somerset. Also 5 notebooks, mainly on religious topics, manuscripts, a printed obituary of Bird and 'A concise narrative or memoir to serve to discriminate the principal occurrences which have brought the Cape of Good Hope into notice from the year 1820 to 1827 by an observer' by C.C. Bird, transcribed by Iris Bird, 1970 (100l.)

E.g. "Specific amount of debts paid during my last residence in rape Town June the 13th, 1819 and interest on capitals from which no benefits was deriving"; "Amount of capitals borrowed since the 13th of June 1819 for which there is no hypothecation now owing"; "Account of acceptances". Public monies received, acceptances paid off and deposits made during the year 1823.

Contains copies of corresrondence and articles; Col. Bird's case taken from the Dublin Review of August 1841 by C. Anstey in an article headed "Southern Africa in 1841"; letter 1825 April from Bird to F. Blount, Secretary to the Catholic Committee, re the persecution Bird suffered because he was a Catholic; reply by Bird 1824 June 27 to Commissioners of Enquiry re complaints by Wm. Parker, 1820 settler, Correspondents include Petri Bathurst, C. C. Bird, Sir R. Donkin, C, H. Somerset.