Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur
Person
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955
Collection
Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner related to his political career, and including mainly correspondence with Earl of Selborne as well as papers of other members of the Palmer family.
Extents: 69.90 Linear metres (699 shelfmarks)
Dates:
1824-1955
Archive of the Rhodes Family (Hildersham Hall Collection)
Collection
Archive of the Rhodes Family (Hildersham Hall Collection).
Extents: 0.35 linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates:
1758-1975
Cecil Rhodes Postcard
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 256
Colour postcard depicting Rhodes as a mouse in a cage labelled Kimberley, being watched by the Afrikaaner General Cronje in the guise of a cat; published in Berlin by Eysler & Co., and posted in Vienna, 6th February 1900.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1900
Copies of letters from Cecil John Rhodes edited by Thomas William Baxter
Collection
Reproduced typescript entitled "Yrs., C.J. Rhodes: the letters of an imperialist", a collection of many of Rhodes' letters, edited by Thomas William Baxter.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
1974 (copies of originals dated 1868-1902)
Correspondence between C.J. Rhodes and A.H.G. Grey, 4th Earl Grey (photocopies)
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.t.6
Correspondence between Cecil John Rhodes and Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey. Photocopies.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1889-1900
Correspondence of Cecil John Rhodes
Collection
Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Cecil John Rhodes.
Extents: 1.58 linear metres (36 boxes)
Dates:
1875-1908
Correspondence of Cecil John Rhodes (3)
Collection
Copies of telegrams (mostly typescript) to and from Cecil John Rhodes, with related telegrams and letters, written during the Matabele War and the peace negotiations in the Matoppos, August-October 1896.
Extents: 24 ff.
Dates:
1896
H.C. Walker's album of photographs of Rhodesia
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 15005
H.C. Walker's album of photographs of Rhodesia
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1902-1904
History of the Rhodes Family by Hilda Thornhill
Collection
Manuscript entitled: "Concerning Cecil John Rhodes and his kinsfolk of olden time and some familiar places" by Hilda Thornhill, a history of the Rhodes family and of the life of Cecil John Rhodes. Included are photographs (some of which are reproductions) of Rhodes, Bishop's Stortford, the Groote Schuur estate and the Rhodes Memorial.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
[ca. 1936]
Letter from Colonel R.G. Kekewich
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 270
Autograph letter, 27th February 1900, to Sir Alfred Milner from Colonel R.G. Kekewich, commander of the garrison during the siege of Kimberley, lamenting and defending his position following criticism and noting Cecil Rhodes's opposition to him.
Extents: 4 ff.
Dates:
1900
Map of Africa annotated by Cecil John Rhodes
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.4
Map of Africa produced by Stanford with annotations made by Cecil John Rhodes indicating his projected railways.
Extents: 4 items
Dates:
1896
Papers of Katherine Lewis
Collection
The papers comprise:
the (empty) autograph album of Katherine Lewis
letters removed from the album, 1860-1934, n.d., several to members of the Lewis family, mainly to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis, and Katherine Lewis, with some to George Lewis, 1st Bart. Many of the letters are from the same correspondents as in the main part of the Lewis papers (Dep. c. 831-853), including Sir James Barrie,...
Extents: 3 shelfmarks
Dates:
19th-20th cent.
Papers of the British South Africa Company (the Cawston Papers)
Collection
Reports, minutes, papers and correspondence (chiefly of George Cawston), 1888-1911, including official correspondence regarding the Jameson Raid and report of Jameson's trial; together with the Report of the Select Committee on British South Africa, 1896/1897, and H.H. Johnston's Report on the Nyasa-Tanganyika expedition, 1889-1890.
Extents: 16 Volumes
Dates:
1888-1911
Papers of W.H. Simmonds
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2297
Collection of newspaper cuttings about Cecil Rhodes, 1881-1905, compiled by Simmonds.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1881-1905
Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. t. 45
Papers relating to Rhodes' death in 1902. Comprising an album of photographs of his funeral in Cape Town and a telegram from Leander Starr Jameson to Alfred Beit announcing Rhodes' death.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1902
Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (2)
Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the life and career of Rhodes in Southern Africa, including a biography (Miniature series) by Ada S. Frost entitled The right hon. Cecil J. Rhodes (London: 1902).
Extents: 38 ff.
Dates:
1896-1902
Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (4)
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2301
Typescript compiled by Cyril B. Harris, entitled My association with Cecil Rhodes and stories of the siege of Kimberley, as told on 16th April 1951 by W.D. Fynn, Superintendent of Farms for De Beers for 33 years. Includes a photograph of Rhodes at the site where he was later buried (Matopo Hills, Rhodesia) and another of a portrait of Rhodes, two letters from Ernst Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, 1951, a letter from Rhodes about sheep and angoras, 1899, and...
Extents: 66 ff.
Dates:
[1899-1951]
Photograph of Painting of Cecil Rhodes by Mortimer Menpes
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12522
Photograph of a painting of Cecil Rhodes by Mortimer Menpes.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
n.d.
Photographs of the Groote Schuur Estate
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1910
Album of photographs of the Groote Schuur Estate including some showing the aftermath of the fire of 1896.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1896-1900
Photographs of the Groote Schuur Estate and the Rhodes Memorial
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1909
Album of photographs of the Groote Schuur estate and of the Rhodes Memorial there, ca. 1902-1910.
Extents: 31 ff.
Dates:
[ca. 1902-1910]