Literary manuscripts, personal reminiscences, correspondence, short stories and reviews both by and on William Charles Scully, Magistrate, author and poet. The papers contain items relating to Scully's wife Nora, children and his in-laws, the Richards family of 1820 settler stock. Correspondence, mainly family, is personal but includes comments on his literary ambitions, work as a magistrate and topics of the day.

List of Zulu words with English meanings and Zulu synonyms plus Index. Includes special vocabularies.

Letter signed by Sol Plaatje, written to Major Cooke, Director of Native Labour in Johannesburg, 17 January 1931, appealing for funds to help publish 'native literature'. The letter was found in Mhudi, Lovedale, 1930.

Historian

Proofsheets of History of South Africa (London, Longmans, 1927).

Also Hg draft of W.P. Schreiner, a South African, (London, O.U.P. 1937).

Diplomat

Programmes, invitation cards, etc. to banquets, official functions and ceremonies which Sir Reginald attended. Also photographs of leading South African and British political figures during the period when he was acting High Commissioner of the Union 1920-1924.

Farmer and member of the second expedition to find the wreck of the Grosvenor

'Journaal gehouden door Jacob van Reenen van den landtogt gedaan van der 24 Augustus 1790 tot den 7 Januar 1791'.

'Journaal gehouden door Jacob van Renen op de Landtogt gedaan na het gestrande Engelse Schip de Grosvenor ... vertrokken den 24 Aug.1790'. 1795 Jan.23.

Minutes of Evidence pp. 1-5777.

Preliminary Memoranda of Evidence 1st Sitting 27 September 1920.

Chairman: Mr H.L. Lindsay.

Verbatim Record of Conference between Mayors of Reef towns and the Supt. of White Labour on the Question of Unemployment 1 October 1920.

Advocate.

Contains notes in Dutch on court cases.

Lawyer and politician

Press clippings on Transvaal politics, including such issues as Transvaal Indians, Chinese labour, the Gold Law, the Inter-Colonial Council and the election of 1907 when Van Hulsteyn stood as a progressive candidate for the Yeoville constituency; several caricatures, including some of van Hulsteyn.