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South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Boer War Menu

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 261
Menu of Banquet to Forces engaged in South Africa at the Boa(e)rs Head, with topical references to people, places and events in the food items listed, [1899-1901].
Extents: 1 item
Dates: [1899-1901]

Correspondence between C.J. Rhodes and A.H.G. Grey, 4th Earl Grey (photocopies)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. t. 6
Photocopies of correspondence between Cecil John Rhodes and Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey.
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

Papers of William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. r. 266
Proofs of the first draft of The Selborne memorandum, a review of the present mutual relations of the British South African colonies by Palmer. Proofs prepared by L.G. Curtis, 1906. The final printed version of the memorandum was first published in a Cape blue-book and presented in the Cape Parliament, and was subsequently republished by the Colonial Office in July 1907.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1906

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]

Supplementary Collections relating to Cecil John Rhodes

 Collection
Supplementary Collections relating to Cecil John Rhodes.
Extents: 0.73 linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 1864-1961