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King Williamstown July 1909; lecture on Cape English and account in P.E. Telegraph (typescript); handwritten notes and extracts from various historical sources relating to the first confirmation at the Cape (after 300 years when Bartholomew Diaz landed at Algoa Bay 14 September 1487, and offered the 'Holy Sacrifice' in South Africa), the Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette proclaimed the conferring of Confirmation on 500 British persons by the Bishop of Calcutta on his way to India, in the DRC in Cape Town, 22 October 1827; loose notes and jottings in notebook relating to the Hottentot language by James Hewitt including 'Hottentot words and place names arranged under their suffixes', ' Classification of Hottentot words collected in various parts of the Western Province', an account of river names in South Africa "which can only be accounted for by tracing them back to Hottentot times', and letter from J Cullen to Rev Huet of Riversdale concerning Hottentot words collected by him; rough jottings (in chronological order) from 1683 to 1800 with entries of the names of the Hewitt family; beginnings of Tarkastad; the Anglican Church in the British Empire; articles and minor communications; English and Latin proverbs; derivation of names; on the publication of Leigh of ....... 's "Lord Byron - some of his Contemporaries"; notes on Bishop Henchman; extract from appeal by John Henchman to the Archbishop of Canterbury; page birth and baptismal notes on Robert William, Florence Henchman, Edith Constance [Hewitt?]; list of books, pamphlets etc relating to Dr John Hewytt; log line; Hewitts in Norfolk origins and others.