- FondsA1479 - Papers of John Gaspard Gubbins
- Series2 - Correspondence
- Subseries2.1 - Gubbins Letters (Photocopies and originals)
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- File14 - To Raikes
- File15 - To Raikes. Note opening date of library; blocks for illustrations; Gill preparing plaster cast of Van Riebeeck stone; fortunate to have Zoological Museum cases for exhibition
- File16 - To Gill. Heard from Dr. Lorentz that fragments of Van Riebeeck stone have arrived in Cape Town; Johannesburg Town Council to put new storey to their new library for exhibition side of Gubbins collection, the University retaining acadamic and library side; querying expense to have replica of plaster stone made for Johannesburg, incorporating an unimportant part of the real stone, approved by Dr. Lorentz
- File17 - To Raikes
- File18 - To Raikes, from Lourenco Marques
- File19 - To Raikes, from Lourenco Marques. Stay at Mbabane, Swaziland on return to Johannesburg to pick up Swaziland history and traditions; fig tree marking 'Jock of the Bushveld' grave cut down - to get site marked; given photograph of Admiral de Continho, who piloted first two South Atlantic flights and invented sextent for use in airships; complete record of history of aviation in South Africa
- File20 - To Raikes, from Lourenco Marques. Can oblige Governor- General Col. Soares Zilhao on subject of fertility cult of old Portuguese canons in Java; Maj. Miller agreed to help with relics and literature of South African aviation and can have strut and bolt of Admiral Weston's plane (first to fly in South Africa) if family have no objection; off to Swaziland to meet Maj. Miller's father who is Swaziland history
- File21 - To Raikes. Lt. Col. J.J. Soares Zilhao, acting Governor-General of Mocambique to be told of making a special Portuguese section in the library and would appreciate literature he promised; Dutch East India exhibition in Johannesburg; upper floor in Municipal Library devoted to Africana collection to be kept structurally simple; wants to make geological museum a living thing on mining in South Africa; earliest American missionary printings from American Board of Missions
- File22 - To Raikes. Sir Benjamin D'Urban cameo and 2 seals and original order book of the Castle of Cape of Good Hope have turned up
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