Identity area
Reference code
ZA HPRA A1479-2-2.1-7
Title
To Raikes
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File
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(1877-1935)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Support from Sir Fred Kenyon; best interests to get Municipality interested in South African collection and build up centre and museum scheme; to inspect series of 330 pictures and sketches by Daniels and C. Bird of African scenes up to 1825; King Manuel of Portugal will give his patronage to the Portuguese section; Mosenthal gives 100 guineas to use as necessary to library; secured MSS journal of Dr Robert Thomson 's 'Voyage to the Cape, 1832' in Worthing.