History of Sarawak (files from the collections of Lady Halsey, Lady Bryant, and Mrs Noble), 1850-1976

File

MSS. Pac. s. 83/9A

Held at the Weston Library

From Mrs Noble's collection: photographs, journal of the second Rajah, and printed material.

Folder 1:

(item 1) album of Brooke family photographs with captions, 1850-1946
(item 2) reproduction of portrait of Bertram Brooke by Margaret Noble, 1930
(item 3) reproduction of portrait of Rajah Vyner Brooke by Margaret Noble [the original painting is at Magdalene College, Cambridge], 1938
(item 4) photograph of Anthony Brooke, [c. 1946]
(items 5-10) photographs of Brooke memorials and tomb with a descriptive note by Mrs Noble about the memorial tablet to Sir James Brooke on his house at Burrator, and of the Sarawak War Memorial tablet and window at Sheepstor, n.d.; 1950.

Folder 2:

(items 1-17) photographs of Sarawak people and scenes with notes on the back by the Ranee Margaret, and 4 postcards, n.d.

Folder 3:

(item 1) manuscript account, unsigned, of a tour up the Baram River (8 pages), n.d.
(item 2) typed copy of correspondence between Charles Brooke and Robert Hay about Hay's decision to remain loyal to Brooke Brooke after his breach with the Rajah. [The originals of these letters are in the Basil Brooke Papers, MSS. Pac. s. 90, Vol. 8, fols. 101-109 and Vol. 11, fol. 336], 10 and 11 Jul 1863, 26 Feb 1866
(items 3 and 4) journal of Charles Brooke (92 pages), and typed copy. The entries are infrequent. A marked passage dated 21 Feb 1867 describes the Rajah's second stroke, Brooke's feelings for him, and the possibility of a change in his 'prospects for life' after the Rajah's death, 12 Sep 1866-11 Jul 1868.

Folder 4:

(item 1) paste-up of 16 lithographed sketches, with captions, illustrating a visit to Sarawak. An introductory note is signed with the initials T.S.C., 1870
(item 2) 'Sarawak Anthem, composed and dedicated to Charles Brooke, 2nd Rajah, by Ghita' [the Ranee Margaret], 1872
(item 3) 'Waiting for the tide, or Scraps and Scrawls from Sarawak', comprising six stories by different authors, illustrated with sketches, printed in Kuching, unpaginated, 1875
(item 4) alchemist's talisman in code (Arabic), and envelope, n.d.

Folder 5:

Printed material, 1907-1976:

(item 1) 'Queries: Past, Present and Future', by the Rajah of Sarawak: photostat of the British Museum copy, pp. 3-16, 1907
(item 2) Sarawak Government Gazette, Kuching, containing the Proclamation of C.V. Brooke as Rajah, 1 Jun 1917
(item 3) leather-bound copy of Jubilee Report of the Council Negri, signed by C.V. Brooke, Rajah, and presented to F.F. Boult (with a note added by Mrs Noble), 1927
(item 4) Sarawak Gazette Almanac, Feb-Dec 1940
(item 5) Sarawak Gazette Centenary Number, 20 Oct 1941
(items 6 and 7) Sarawak Gazette, Kuching, with report of the first meeting of the newly constituted Council Negri; and cyclostyled Gazette of the same date issued in London (Vol. LXXV, No. 1082), 1 Dec 1941
(item 8) Sarawak Gazette, London (Vol. LXXVI, No. 1084), including 'An account of the adventures of the European Volunteers in the 2/15 Punjab Battalion up to the time of surrender of the Battalion', 1 Feb 1946
(item 9) photostats of All England Law Reports, Vol. 1, pp. 1261-1269: Sultan Johore v. Abubakar Tunku Aris Bendahara and others, 15 May 1952
(item 10) 'The National Resources of Sarawak', compiled by F.M. Roe (38 pages), Jul 1952
(item 11) pedigree of families connected by service to Sarawak, made by Mrs Margaret Noble for the Society of Genealogists. It covers the years 1705-1976 and is concerned with the families of Johnson, Brooke, Grant, Bruce and Hay, 1976.