Mourners holding banners and chanting songs

Diary of Robert Edward Eardley Wilmot (1830-1861), Captain of the 15th Company of rifle Volunteers and Magistrate of the County of Derby.
The diary, which was written between 30 January 1856 - 22 July 1856, describes a journey from Port Elizabeth through the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, during which he visited mission stations and military forts. Wilmot comments on the tribes, frontier politics, the importance of missions, natural history and on individuals such as Bishop J. Armstrong, C. Brownlee, A. de Smidt, J.B. Ebden, Bishop R. Gray, Sir G. Grey, T.J. Lucas, Chief Sandile, Sir R. Southey and Bishop T.E. Welby

Correspondence between (Father) Trevor (Huddleston) in Mirfield and A. Paton. Durban re fund-raising 23 May 1957, holograph, 1 page and 3 June 1957, typescript, 1 page.

Senior official of the Dutch East India Company

'Dagelijckse aantekening van mij Joannes van Steelant vertreckende van Batavia uijt India ...'
Journal in Dutch kept by J. van Steelant on the voyage from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands on the ship 'Sandenburg'. Van Steelant was returning with his family after a stay in Batavia of over 30 years during which he served as Governor and Director and Member of the Extraordinary Council of the Dutch East Indies.

Correspondence between A. Paton in Durban and Mr. Charneck in England re political situation in South Africa. 5 June 1962, holograph, 7 pages and 29 June 1962, typescript, 1 page.

Correspondence between A. Paton in Durban and Adrian Leftwich in Cape Town, 9 May 1962, autograph typescript, 1 page and 17 May 1962, typescript, 1 page.

Letter from A. Paton to Adrian Leftwich, Durban 4 May 1962, typescript, 1 page.

Letter from A. Paton to Richard Thompson re sports boycott New Zealand, 2 May 1962, autograph typescript, 1 page and 30 July 1962, typescript, 1 page.

Correspondence between A. Paton in Durban and Pixie (Benson) in Johannesburg re Hofmeyr biography. 1 May 1962, autograph typescript, 1 page and enclosing note and 4 May 1962, typescript, 1 page.