UCT Libraries

 

BC 50 THE  CECIL J. SIBBETT PAPERS  

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

 

 

presented to

 

The University of Cape Town Libraries

 

by

 

C. J. Sibbett

 

A LIST

 

compiled by

 

Russell Martin

 

1979  

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

 

Biographical note

 

Note on the Collection

A.

PERSONAL PAPERS

B.

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, arranged chronologically

C.

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, arranged alphabetically

D.

SIBBETT'S PUBLIC CAREER

E.

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, BODIES, SOCIETIES

F.

RHODESEANA

G.

LITERARIA

H.

SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, TALKS

J.

INVITATIONS, PROGRAMMES, BROCHURES

K.

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

L.

PHOTOGRAPHS

M.

GRAMOPHONE RECORDS

N.

MISCELLANEA

 

INTRODUCTION

Cecil  J.  Sibbett:  A  Thumbnail  Sketch

Cecil James Sibbett was born on 16 March 1881 in Belfast and at the age of 16 he emigrated with his father to Cape Town.  Shortly before the outbreak of the South African War, Sibbett founded the South African Advertising Agency, a business which in the 1930s he was to sell to I.W. Schlesinger on terms that enabled him to retire from the commercial scene and devote his time to the many public activities he had long interested himself in. Among these can be numbered the S.A. National Thrift Organization (which he set up in 1919), the 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association (of which he was long chairman) and the South African National Gallery (on whose board of trustees he sat and then chaired).

 

Within a short time after his arrival in the Cape, Sibbett joined a local branch of the South African League, an imperialist political organization, at the head of which presided Cecil Rhodes. This association with Rhodes, which is an abiding and dominant theme of Sibbett's life, was strengthened when in the years 1901-1902 he became Rhodes's assistant political secretary and after his master's death, he strove to keep alive the memory of Rhodes whom he had on his own admission hero-worshipped. His important collection of Rhodeseana he presented to the University of Cape Town, where it is now displayed.

Sibbett died in 1967.

THE COLLECTION

This is a large collection of, private papers (7 057 items) given to the University of Cape Town Libraries by the late Cecil J. Sibbett.  Sibbett was a public-spirited, public-conscious man, whose wideranging interests and activities, while they occasionally touched the main arena of South African politics, can be best described as 'civic' in the widest sense of that word and the importance of the collection should be seen in that term. Sibbett himself was an active participant in local politics, particularly in the 1920s, as a staunch supporter of the S.A. Party, on which ticket he won and held a seat in the Cape Provincial Council from 1924-1932. But his political engagements extend even earlier than this, for he was an ardent admirer of Cecil Rhodes a self-confessed 'hero-worshipper' - and throughout his long life he venerated the memory of Rhodes and propagated certain political ideals and ideas which he derived from the Rhodes tradition. He was assistant to Rhodes's wizard political secretary, C.A. Owen Lewis in 1901-1902, and played also a prominent local role in the work of the imperialist South African League, over which Rhodes presided. During the South African War, Sibbett did duty as a newspaper correspondent on the front. From this critical period in the history of South Africa, there exist in the collection valuable and historically interesting pamphlet literature, newspaper reprints, lectures and addresses, as well as a number of ephemeral items and those of great period interest.

 

The more obviously 'political' material increases in bulk during the time of Sibbett's provincial councillorship when he was called upon, i.a., to serve on the Union Reparations and also the Flag Commissions in 1926. But his interest in party politics remained strong throughout his life and he kept up contacts and corresponded with such political figures as J.C. Smuts, J.H. Hofmeyr (a substantial holding of letters from Hofmeyr exists), N.C. Havenga, H.G. Lawrence, J.G.N. Strauss amongst others, and with newspaper editors such as B.K. Long and Victor Norton. But the significance of Sibbett's career lies not so much in this political dimension as in his impressive association with a whole run of public institutions, bodies and societies, to which he devoted his active life after an early retirement from a very successful advertising agency business. A mere catalogue of these is daunting. He was on the boards of trustees of the S.A. National Gallery, the S.A. Public Library and S.A. Museum and at various times their chairman, in which capacity he corresponded incessantly with J.H. Kofmeyr (then at the Treasury or else at the head of the Education Ministry) about the administrative and financial aspects of these bodies. Apart from this, Sibbett founded the S.A. National Thrift Organization in 1919 and he remained its chairman for forty years. The social significance of this semi-public body should not be underestimated, promoting as it did the sale of Union Loan Certificates and through organized campaigns inculcated notions of thrift and possibly altered conceptions of private finance in the mind of a public that was to experience the vagaries of economic depression and uncertainty in the 1930s and 1940s.

 

Just to indicate the range of Sibbett's civic activity, we can single out, in addition, to round off this feature of his career, the following bodies to which he belonged and in which he played an active role: The 1820 Memorial Settlers' Association; Rotary International; the Free Masons; and the S.A. Institute of International Affairs.

 

But Sibbett's first inspiration remained his attachment to the memory of Rhodes; and it is, incidentally, from Sibbett himself that UCT acquired its valuable collection of Rhodeseana. His involvement in the setting up of the Rhodes birthplace at Bishop's Stortford and the Rhodes Cottage, Muizenberg, is well documented in the correspondence, which likewise contains a bulky collection of letters from Lord Elton of the Rhodes Trust, Oxford. As a mine of anecdotal material on Rhodes, the papers are perhaps unrivalled; but it is more interesting to my mind in the wider sense of providing an outstanding example of the legacy of the Rhodes tradition, the way Rhodes's imperial vision became transmuted, in the eyes of his legatees and spiritual heirs, into the reality of the British Empire of the twentieth century. Moreover, as an insight into the political thinking of an English-speaking South African in the 1920s-1940s, imbued with imperial notions of the Rhodes sort, this collection stands as a first-rate case study.

 

Finally, a postscript seems necessary here, merely because one cannot ignore Sibbett cast in his favourite role of Maecenas and also litterateur. In this respect, there is a sizeable correspondence with such literary and artistic figures as Roy Campbell, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, Francis Brett Young, D.G. Boonzaaier, Sir Herbert Baker and Edward Roworth.

A.

PERSONAL PAPERS

 

A1

C.J. Sibbett's memoirs. MS

1

A2.1-A2.3

Abridged copies of Sibbett's memoirs. TSS

3

A3

Biographical compendium: bibliographical references, publications, curriculum vitae, published comments on aspects of life and works

1

A4.1-A4.3

Curricula vitae

3

A5.1-A5.2

Genealogical notes on the Sibbett family

2

A6 -A8

Cash books: 1927-1934; 1934-1941; 1941-1949

3

A9

Journal of share investments of Sibbett and wife. 1944-1957

1

A10-A15

Prospectus and annual reports of certain limited companies. 1934‑1956

6

A16-A38

Various receipts and licences. 1959‑1963

23

B. and C.

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

 

B.

CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE ITEMS

 

B1-B229

Correspondence, 1907‑1960. This includes:

 

B13

Moses Kottler to CJS, 14 November 1929

 

B16 - B193

O. Pirow to CJS, 8 February 1935 and 16 November 1957

 

B24&B25

B.R. Garlick (Dr Jameson's valet) to CJS, 8 and 15 May 1938

 

B40-B41

CJS to F. Crafford, author of Life of General Smuts, 17 April 1944 and reply of 19 April 1944

 

B57 & B202

Bishop Sidney Lavis to CJS, 15 January1945 and 3 July 1958

 

B58 & B63

E. Farrar to CJS, 28 February and 15 May1945

 

B78

Quinton Hogg to CJS, 8 February 1946

 

B85

Lord Methuen to CJS, 2 September 1947

 

B114

Mrs Deborah Hofmeyr to CJS, 27 March 1950

 

B123

Michael Redgrave to CJS, 7 August 1951

 

B131 & B134

Sir Paul Dukes, author of Come Hammer, Come Sickle, to CJS, 4 February and 7 May 1952

 

B148

Tommy Boydell to CJS, 23 August 1954

 

B152

CJS to W. Duncan Baxter, 9 December 1954

 

B171-B174

Correspondence with the Editor of the London Sunday Times, re Milner's Kindergarten, 20 to 30 December 1955

 

B124

G.A. Leyds to CJS, re Milner's Kindergarten, 4 August 1960

 

B219-B226

undated items

 

C.

ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF CORRESPONDENCE

 

C1.1-C1.3

Correspondence with L.S. Amery, 1952‑1954

6

C2.1-C2.4

Letters from H.C. Armstrong, author of Grey Steel, 1937‑1948

13

C3.1-C3.9

Letters from Sir Abe Bailey, 1929‑1939

18

C4.1-C4.4

Correspondence with Sir Herbert Baker, 1945

16

C5.1-C5.6

Correspondence with Lord Baldwin, 1942‑1945. Includes a letter from CJS to Lady Waterhouse

21

C6.1-C6.4

Correspondence with Bangor Grammar School, Northern Ireland, 1950‑1957

10

C7.1-C7.2

Letter from L. Bolus and letter to Professor Compton, 1951

8

C8.1-C8.17

Correspondence re D.G. Boonzaaier, 1926‑1956, including some letters to and from the artist himself

41

C9.1‑C9.12

Letters from Francis and Jessica Brett Young, 1945‑1952. Includes theatre handbill and letter from Union Department of External Affairs re the Brett Young's passage to South Africa

24

C10.1‑C10.22

Campbellania. Correspondence with Roy Campbell; typescript and printed poems, one of which bears dedication to CJS in Campbell's own hand; letters from Killie and Ethel Campbell; and MS of Sibbett's reminiscences of his acquaintance with Campbell.  Also letters from Professor W.H. Gardner re Campbell. 1948‑1958

51

C11.1‑C11.11

Letters from Henry W.A. Cooper, J.C. Smut's private secretary, 1951‑1952

35

C12.1‑C12.2

Letters from John Cope, 1945‑1948

5

C13.1‑C13.6

Letters from Dr. T.B. Davie, 1950‑1955

15

C14.1‑C14.11

Letters from Sir Charles Dundas, 1952

40

C15.1‑C15.2

Letters from Leif Egeland, Union High Commissioner, London, 1948‑1949

8

C16.1

Letter from Louis Esselen, Ministry of Transport, 1944

4

C17.1‑C17.2

Letters from C.D. de B. Forsyth, Union Consul­ General, Madagascar, 1946‑1948

21

C18.1‑C18.3

Letters from Sir De Villiers Graaff, 1953‑1958

6

C19.1‑C19.11

Correspondence with N.C. Havenga, 1926‑1954

33

C20.1‑C20.12

Correspondence with A.P. Herbert, editor of Punch, 1943‑1948. Includes poems by Herbert

42

C21.1‑C21.4

Letters and telegrams from F.G. Hinley, of The Friend, Bloemfontein, 1945

10

C22.1‑C22.41

Correspondence with J.H. Hofmeyr, 1929‑1948

101

C23.1‑C23.17

Correspondence with G.M. Huggins, Prime Minister, Southern Rhodesia, 1935‑1954

 

C24.1‑C24.15

Correspondence with the Kipling Society, London, 1944‑1955

15

C25.1

Letter to Joel Krige, M.L.A., 1920

 

C26.1‑C26.11

Correspondence with H.G. Lawrence, 1943‑1956

 

C27.1‑C27.11

Letters from Lady Rosamund Leven, 1944‑1951

 

C28.1‑C28.3

Letters from Conrad Lighton, of The Cape Argus, 1951‑1959

6

C29.1‑C29.4

Letters from B.K. Long, 1926‑1938

13

C30.1‑C30.15

Letters from G. Makepeace, editor of The Outspan, 1937‑1954

48

C31.1‑C31.5

Letters from Lord Malvern, 1949‑1958

11

C32.1‑C32.4

Letters from Viscountess Milner, 1949‑1950

7

C33.1‑C33.4

Letters from Terence C.S. Morrison‑Scott (Sibbett's second cousin), 1955

4

C34.1‑C34.3

Letters from G. Heaton Nicholls, 1950‑1951

12

C35.1‑C35.5

Letters from Victor Norton, of the Cape Times, 1944‑1954

11

C36.1‑C36.5

Correspondence with O.A. Oosthuizen, general secretary, United Party, 1943‑1947

20

C37.1‑C37.2

Letters from Harry Oppenheimer, 1953

5

C38.1‑C38.4

Letters from Lionel Phillips, 1927‑1935

16

C39.1‑C39.7

Letters from Mrs J.B. Priestley, 1945‑1948

16

C40.1‑C40.5

Letters from Deneys Reitz, 1934‑1937

11

C41.1‑C41.3

Letters from Sir Charles F. Rey, 1946‑1954

6

C42.1‑C42.4

Correspondence with Edward Roworth, 1925‑1937

8

C43.1‑C43.5

Letters from T.W. Rudland, president, The Pioneer Corps Association, Salisbury, 1944

8

C44.1‑C44.27

Letters from Lady Elizabeth Salisbury (BettyCranborne),?1937‑?1948 [many items undated]

27

C45.1‑C45.14

Letters from Lady Alice Salisbury, ?1944‑?1949

14

C46.1‑C46.8

Letters from Lord Salisbury, 1944‑1954

21

C47.1‑C47.5

Letters from R.M. Sayers, editor of Belfast Telegraph, 1945‑1957

20

C48.1‑C48.55

Correspondence with Francis Carey Slater, 1944­ 1958. Also correspondence with secretary of the PEN Club, of which Slater was president, and members' list of S.A. PEN centre, 1960

111

C49.1

Letter to Sir Thomas Smartt, 1920

4

C50.1‑C50.3

Letters from Pauline Smith, 1926‑1957

3

C51.1‑C51.4

Correspondence with General Smuts, 1926‑1942

7

C52.1‑C52.4

Correspondence with Mrs Smuts, 1952‑1953

10

C53.1‑C53.4

Letter to Col. C.F.S. Stallard , 1940. Also leader and article from Cape Argus, and memo from G.A.L. Green, editor of Cape Argus, re Stallard, 1936

14

C54.1‑C54.15

Correspondence with Sir Herbert Stanley, 1941‑1946. Includes copies of poems exchanged between Stanley and Sibbett

75

C55.1‑C55.2

Letters from Colin Steyn, 1943‑1944

2

C56.1‑C56.7

Letters from J.G.N. Strauss and his private secretary, 1950‑1956

16

C58.1‑C58.2

Correspondence with F.C.G. Tooke, Union Forest Entomologist, 1945

8

C59.1‑C59.4

Correspondence with secretary of Ulster Unionist Council, Belfast, 1954‑1955.Includes list of U.S.Presidents of Ulster extraction

13

C60.1

Letter from Piet van der Byl, 1957

4

C61.1‑C61.4

Letters from Jean van der Poel, 1952‑1953

6

C62.1‑C62.3

Correspondence with Mrs Margaret Lane Wallace, daughter in law of Edgar Wallace, 1937

12

C63.1‑C63.5

Correspondence with Sidney Waterson, 1940‑1945

8

C64.1‑C64.8

Correspondence concerning collection of autographs of delegates to first meeting of League of Nations, belonging to Sibbett, sent to U.S.A. on display. 1945‑1946

17

D.

C.J. SIBBETT'S CAREER

 

D1

The South African War, 1899‑1902

 

D1.1‑D1.2

A. Wetler to CJS, 13 March 1900 and undated

2

D1.3‑D1.6

Letters from J. Butler, editor of the Midland News, to CJS, 19 May 1900, 19 July 1900 (two letters), and a memo dated 1 November 1899

4

D1.7‑D1.8

CJS to Major Deane, Military Secretary, Cape Government House, 2 September 1901, and reply of 14 September 1901

2

D1.9

CJS to Mr Browne (Rolf Bolderwood), 11 July 1902

4

Dl.l0‑Dl.ll

Newspaper articles in the Midland News, March and April 1900, written by CJS

8

D1.12

Reminiscences by CJS of his work as a newspaper correspondent during the South African War

1

D1.13

Pay chit, Colonial Detence Force, 9 May 1901

1

D1.14

Pamphlet of Cape Colony Cycle Corps

1

D1.15‑Dl.16

Attesting forms, Colonial Defence Force, Foot and Mounted Services

6

D1.17

Military orders for Town Guard, Colonial Defence Force

1

D1.18

Oath of allegiance for Town Guard

2

D1.19

Printed copy of Daily Guard Report, Town Guard

1

D1.20

Service form for a Thanksgiving Service for Peace

1

D1.21

Martial law proclamation for Stellenbosch District, January 1901

1

D1.22

Brochure re Sword presented to Lord Roberts by Mayor of Cape Town, 1900

3

D1.23

Scrapbook containing passes etc. of Sibbett when acting as war correspondent

1

D2

The South African League

 

D2.1

Reference given CJS as member of South African League, 2 November 1899

4

D2.2

S.A. League form re establishment of Tamboer's Kloof branch

3

D2.3

S.A. League Book of Constitutions, 1899

1

D2.4

S.A. League Congress, Cape Town, October 1900: record of proceedings

2

D2.5

Pamphlet containing resolutions submitted at S.A. League Congress. 1900

1

D2.6

S.A. League: information sheet detailing alterations in the constitution

1

D2.7

Reprint from Diamond Fields Advertiser, 28 April 1899, of article on S.A. League Banquet

1

D2.8

Membership card, S.A. League

1

D2.9‑D2.11

S.A. League bye‑laws, Cape Town branches

3

D2.12‑D2.15

Various invitations to S.A. League functions, 1898‑1900

10

D2.16

Train ticket, 11 October 1900, for S.A. League Congress

1

D2.17

Admission ticket to House of Assembly

1

D2.18‑D2.19

Petition forms to Queen on behalf of Uitlanders

3

D2.20

Acknowledgement by Cape High Commissioner of S.A., League's expression of sympathy on death of Queen Victoria, letter being addressed to C.A. Owen Lewis

1

D2.21

Acknowledgement by secretary to Joseph Chamberlain of S.A. League Congress resolution, 14 March 1901

1

D2.22

Letter of approval from secretary to Cape Prime Minister re address presented to Duke of Cornwall by S.A. League, 23 July 1901

4

D2.23

Copy of the above address

1

D2.24

Subscription list for presentation to Lord Roberts

1

D2.25‑D2.34

Parliamentary election material, Cape of Good Hope

11

D2.35‑D2.58

Pamphlet literature, reprints, handbills, etc., re S.A. League and the South African War, including printed speakers' notes on various topical issues, printed lectures and addresses, a war manual, and a popular series on South African history

23

D3

Joseph Chamberlain's South African Tour, 1902‑1903

 

D3.1‑D3.65

Menus, programmes, invitations, passes, etc., which Sibbett acquired as a newspaper correspondent covering Chamberlain's tour of South Africa

74

D4

Scrapbook of clippings from Sibbett's business trip to England and the United States in 1913

1

D5

Sibbett, M.P.C., 1923‑1932

 

D5.1‑D5.3

Statements of policy and principle by CJS as S.A.P. candidate for the Provincial Council elections, 1923

13

D5.4‑D5.56

Letters and telegrams of congratulation on Sibbett's election win, 1923 and 1925

53

D5.57‑D5.65

Correspondence during councillorship, 1925‑1931, including correspondence with A.P.J. Fourie, Provincial Administrator (D5.57‑D5.61), and letter to N.C. Havenga, 17 August 1931 (D.65)

21

D5.66‑D5.69 

Correspondence concerning Sir Frederic de Waal's legal action against CJS for defamation in connection with a public speech made by Sibbett. 1923‑1924. Includes a newspaper cartoon

5

D5.70

Speech by CJS on 'The Provincial Council System'  (n.d.)

1

D5.71

Speech by CJS on 'High Taxation in the Cape', ts. extract from the Cape Times, 3 September 1925

3

D5.72‑D5.74

Provincial Council election voting cards, 1923

5

D5.75‑D5.183

H.G. Legg vs. C.J. Sibbett, 1923‑1924

 

D5.75‑D5.86

Legal papers re Supreme Court case in connection with Sibbett's return as Provincial Councillor

15

D5.87‑D5.135

Statements, receipts and returns of election expenses of Sibbett in Provincial Council election, 1923

54

D5.136‑D5.183

Sibbett‑Legg controversy. Includes broadsheets and pamphlets; newspaper clippings, posters and reprints; correspondence i.a. with W. Duncan Baxter (chairman of S.A.P. committee supervising Provincial Council elections); and a letter from J.C. Smuts to CJS: MS. memo by CJS on his reasons for resigning from the Provincial Council

65

D6

Sibbett and the Union Flag Question, 1926

 

D6.1‑D6.15

Correspondence, 1926. Includes letters from CJS to N.C. Havenga, Edward Roworth, J.C. Smuts, D.F. Malan, W. Duncan Baxter (with reply thereto), and letters from Mrs Sibbett to her husband Also an official telegram of appointment to the Flag Commission; ‑two projected flag designs; and a printed pamphlet on the flag issue

52

D7

Sibbett and the Union Reparations (War Losses) Commission, 1926

 

D7.1‑D7.14

Correspondence concerning Sibbett's appointment to and his work on the Reparations Commission, 1926‑1927

54

D8

Sibbett's war‑time Duties

 

D8.1‑D8.9

Correspondence mainly concerning Sibbett's war-time activities, 1939‑1946

30

D9

Sibbett, J.P.

 

D9.1‑D9.7

Official letters of appointment as J.P., 1940‑1958

16

E.

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, AND INSTITUTIONS

 

E. 1.

Cultural bodies: South African National Gallery, South African Museum, South African Public Library, Botanical Society of South Africa. Correspondence, arranged chronologically, 1933‑1961; and miscellaneous items

 

E1.1‑E1.183

Correspondence. Includes letters of appointment to the above institutions

 

 

Also, correspondence with J.H. Hofmeyr mainly concerning the financing of these bodies (E.15, E1.6, E1 8, E1.27, E1.29, E1.35‑E1.45, E1.48, E1.50­ E1.51); with J. Holloway (E1.32, E1.67, E1.96‑E1.97,E1.99‑E1.100); correspondence re the opening of the Graham Bower papers at the S.A.P.L. (E1.11‑E1.15); correspondence re the proposed acquisition of paintings by Churchill for the S.A. National Gallery  (E1.22‑E1.26); correspondence re the permanent loan by Princess Labia of the Sir Joseph Robinson collection to the National Gallery (E1.89‑E1.90 and E1.96‑E1.100); correspondence with various persons, including the Minister of Education and Arts, re complaints lodged against Mr John Paris, Director of the Gallery, by members of the Board of Trustees (E1.24‑E1.136); correspondence between CJS and John Paris of the National Gallery (E1.60‑E1.66, E1.79,E1.84, E1.86, E1.91‑E1.92, E1.105, E1.111, E1.120­ E1.121, E1.138‑E1.139, E1.152, E1.160, E1.168) Also, letters from Harry Lawrence (E1.46); from Tommy Boydell (El_107‑E1.108); and from Victor Norton (E1.87) Also, letters to C.F. Clarkson (E1.7, E1.42); D.F.Malan (E1.115); and N.C. Havenga (E1.1, E1.90)

350

E1.184‑E1.230 

Miscellaneous

 

E1.184

Deed of trust governing the Sir J.B. Robinson collection of pictures

1

E1.185

Union Report of Commission on the S.A. Art Gallery (UG 52 ‑ 1947)

1

E1.186

Newspaper extracts re the controversial sale of paintings from the National Gallery, 1947

1

E1.187‑E1.188

Memo on Present Conditions of Art in South Africa, presented by W.E.G. Solomon, chairman of The Brush and Chisel Club, to the Union Government; with attached letter from John Paris to C.J.S., 6 February 1949

2

E1.189

Memo on function and policy for the National Gallery, by John Paris, presented 25 May 1949

1

E1.190‑E1.203

Newspaper correspondence and articles re the controversial exhibition of South African paintings at an Italian art festival, from Die Burger, 29 March 1950 ‑ 19 April 1950; and re an exhibition of modern French art at the National Gallery, 1951

15

E1.204‑E1.207

S.A. National Gallery: minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees, 1950 and 1953

4

E1.208‑E1.209

Financial statements of the S.A. National Gallery

4

E1.210

Address by John Paris on Enslin du Plessis, June 1957

1

E1.211

Precis of the Museum's Commission of Inquiry

1

E1.212‑E1.213

S.A. Botanical Society: minutes of meeting of the Council, 15 April 1958; and annual report for 1958

2

E1.214

S.A. National Gallery regulations

1

E1.215

Address list of South African artists

1

E1.216‑E1.230

Newspaper cuttings re art

15

E2

1820 Memorial Settlers' Association

 

E2.1‑E2.75

Correspondence, mainly with Lord Leven (chairman of the Executive Committee, U.K.); Sir A. Weston­Jarvis (a committee member, U.K.); Brendan Quin (assistant secretary, U.K.); Walter Webber (chairman of the central executive, South Africa); A. Lennox‑Short (general manager of the Association, South Africa); N.H. Gilfillan (chairman of the Association, South Africa) Also correspondence with G.M. Huggins, a letter to J.C. Smuts, and a letter from Harry Oppenheimer 1933‑1962

228

E2.76

Report of proceedings at the annual meeting of the General Council of the 1820 Memorial, Settlers' Association, 4 July 1935

5

E2.77

C.J. Sibbett's address as chairman of the 1820 Settlers' Association, extracted from The 1820 magazine, November 1945

2

E2.78

1820 Settlers' Association pamphlet, January 1950

1

E2.79

Page from The 1820 magazine, August 1950

1

E2.80

1820 Settlers' Association fact sheet

1

E2.81

Newspaper clipping of central executive of 1820 Settlers' Association (c.1955?)

1

E2.82

Reprint from The Outspan of article by CJS on 'Great Possiblities for Settlers in South Africa'

15

E2.83‑E2.84

The 1820, September 1933 and September 1935

2

E3

The South African National Thrift Organization

 

E3.1‑E3.231

Correspondence, 1922‑1959, including correspondence with N.C. Havenga (E3.4, E3.6, E3.75, E3.77‑E3.81, E3.106, E3.114, E3.146); with J.H. Hofmeyr (E3.19‑E3.21, E3.23‑E3.46, E3.48‑E3.60, E3.62‑E3.66, E3.68‑E3.69); with F.C. Sturrock (E3.67, E3.71‑E3.72, E3.74); with G.M. Huggins (E3.100,E3.102); with E. Louw (E3.150, E3.210) Also letters from Earl Clarendon (E3.8); from J.C. Smuts (E3.11); from C.F. Clarkson (E3.12); from Lord Malvern (E3.196); from Tom Naude (E3.211, E3.213, E3.215‑E3.216, E3.219); from T.E. Donges (E3.224)

348

E3.232‑E3.266

Printed papers and miscellaneous

 

E3.232

Note by CJS on his part in Union War Bond Campaign

 

E3.233

Photograph of medallion presented to CJS for his thrift work

 

E3.234

'The Story of the Loan', booklet

 

E3.235‑E3.266

Includes copies and newspaper reports of speeches and addresses by CJS and various dignatories to thrift conferences in the 1950s; also propaganda and information leaflets, bulletins and pamphlets; and extracts, copies and reprints frommagazines and newspapers relating to the S.A. National Thrift Organization and the Union Loan Certificates Scheme.

 

E3 .253

Copy of an article on the history of the Thrift Organization

60

E4

Rotary

 

E4.1‑E4.70

Correspondence, 1930‑1958 Also issues of The London Rotarian, a Rotary information sheet, a Rotary bulletin, an extract from Rotary in Africa magazine, and a broadsheet re the Liberty Cavalcade, 1944

136

E5

Free Masonry

 

E5.1‑E5.38

Correspondence, 1932‑1962, amongst others with the Earl of Donoughmore, Grand Master of the Irish Constitution of Free Masons. Also photocopy of the minutes of meeting of an Irish lodge, 1867; extracts from the Masonic Journal of South Africa; an order of service; a notice of a Masonic installation; and souvenir of a masonic luncheon given in honour of CJS

95

E6

Boy Scouts

 

E6.1‑E6.33

Correspondence, 1945‑1958, and various oddments comprising reprints of an article by CJS; roneod scouting newsletters and magazines; address to the Boy Scouts' Rhodes Commemoration Ceremony by the American Consul General; orders of service for the Rhodes Day Scout Service; and memo on the history of the Rhodes Dav Wreath Laving Ceremony

84

E7

Cape Parliamentary Debating Society

 

E7.1‑E7.13

Correspondence, 1926‑1959, and printed papers

25

E8

The Owl Club

 

E8.1‑E8.3

A handwritten letter (1959) and two printed letters (1920)

3

E9

The Dukes

 

E9.1‑E9.26

Correspondence, 1935‑1958, amongst others with the Earl of Athlone (C‑in‑C of the Regiment)

77

E10

South African Institute of International Affairs

 

E10.1‑E10.5

Letters from the Institute and one from Chief Justice A.v.d.S.:Centlivres, 1953‑1958. Also an address to the Institute by H.V. Roberts, August 1958

8

F.

RHODESEANA

 

Fl‑F3

Correspondence with the Rhodes Trust, Oxford, America and South Africa

 

F1.1‑F1.149

Correspondence with Philip Kerr (Lord Lothian) and Lord Elton of the Rhodes Trust, Oxford. 1929‑1961

341

F2.1‑F2.25

Correspondence with Frank Aydelotte of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Princeton, U.S.A. 1944‑1953

49

F3.1‑F3.15

Correspondence with A.H. Gie of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, South Africa. 1948‑1959. Also, references for a candidate Rhodes scholar

21

F4‑F8

Correspondence concerning Rhodes and Rhodeseana

 

F4.1‑F4.51

Correspondence with Howell Wright, Rhodeseana collector, U.S.A. 1937‑1955. Includes a few letters from Mrs Mabel Wright

114

F5.1‑F5.18

Letters from R.H. Smithers, director of the National Museum, Southern Rhodesia. 1951‑1964. Includes a letter from the manager of the Central African Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, 1953, and a newspaper clipping

 

F5.19‑F5.39

Letters mainly from V.W. Hiller, chief archivist, Central African Archives, Southern Rhodesia. 1936‑1954

102

F6

General correspondence concerning Rhodes and Rhodeseana (cf. E2.5‑E2.7 and E2.13)

 

F6.1‑F6.88

General correspondence, 1900‑1958. Includes:

 

F6.1‑F6.88

letter from secretary of Rhodes Reception Committee, 1899

 

F6.2

CJS to Basil Williams, author of Life of Rhodes, 1 April 1921

 

F6.5‑F6.6

Sarah Gertrude Millin to CJS, 12 and 28 September 1932

 

F6.11

Lady Adelheid de Villiers to CJS, 27 July 1941

 

F6.15‑F6.16

Moses Kottler to CJS, November 1950 and 4 January 1951

 

F6.18

Victor Norton to CJS, 21 June 1951

 

F6.19 & F6.23

Killie Campbell to CJS, 24 August and 8 November 1951

 

F6.51‑F6.52

L.S. Amery to CJS, 14 December 1953, enclosing copy of  address delivered by Amery in Westminster Abbey on unveiling of tablet to Rhodes

 

F6.65

CJS to Lady Heath, 19 January 1954

 

F6.72‑F6.82

I.G. Lockhart to CJS, 1957‑1958

 

F6.83‑F6.85

Correspondence with Sir Arthur Bryant, 1957

190

F7

Correspondence re Rhodes items and others presented as gifts, loans and benefactions by Sibbett to private persons and public bodies

 

F7.1‑F7.84

Correspondence, 1925‑1959 Includes letters from W.G.R. Murray, Registrar of UCT (F7.1, F7.9, F7.14); from J.B.M. Hertzog (F7.15); from 'resident and Librarian of Yale University (F7.17, F7.20, F7.22, F7.29, F7.32, F7.55‑F7.56); from C. Graham Botha (F7.21); from Colin Steyn (F7.23); from R.F.M. Immelman and others, Jagger Library, UCT (F7.37‑F7.38, F7.45‑F7.46), F7.51‑F7.53, F7.59, F7.62, F7.64‑F7.65, F7.67‑F7.68, F7.77‑F7.80); from P.0 Sauer (F7.40); and from E.G. Jansen (F7.2, F7.48) Also, F7.82: list of portraits of Governors and Governors General presented to the Castle by CJS F7.83: list of autographs presented to SAPL by CJS F7.84: brochure of J.W. Jagger Library, UCT, May 1956

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F8

Miscellaneous Rhodes items, including facsimiles of Rhodes's letters

 

F8.1

C.J. Rhodes to Colonial Secretary, Natal, 25 March 1871

 

F8.2

C. Rhodes to Carl Behrens? of Natal Land & Colonization Co., 6 May 1871

 

F8.3

C.J. Rhodes to Carl Behrens, 6 June 1871

 

F8.4

C.J. Rhodes to Colonial Secretary, Natal, 3 August 1871

 

F8.5

C. Rhodes to Carl Behrens, 4 December 1871

 

F8.6

P. Jourdan to F.S. Tatham, 14 September 1896

 

F8.7

C.J. Rhodes to F.S. Tatham, 11 December 1896

 

F8.8

C.J. Rhodes to Harry Escombe, n.d.

51

F8.9

Edmund Garrett on Rhodes (anecdotal)

 

F8.10‑F8.13

C.J. Sibbett on Rhodes and Jameson (anecdotal)

 

F8.14

Note on Rhodes family tree

 

F8.15

Newspaper clipping of item in UCT Sibbett collection

 

F8.16‑F8.17

Two extracts from East Africa and Rhodesia, 1953

 

F8.18

A Rhodes bibliography

19

F9‑F12

Public Memorials to Rhodes

 

F9

Rhodes Birthplace, Bishop's Stortford

 

F9.1‑F9.89

Correspondence, 1936‑1961 Includes correspondence with G.M. Huggins (F9.1, F9.5‑F9.6, F9.8, F 9.11, F9.15, F9.19, F 9.42); with Abe Bailey (F9.2, F9.7, F9.10, F9.12, F9.16‑F9.18, F9.26‑F9.29); and letters from J.H. Hofmeyr (F9.3, F9.13‑F9.14); from Patrick Duncan (F9.4, F9.9, F9.20); and to Sir Herbert Stanley (F9.33) Also, a large correspondence with G.N. Drinkwater, clerk of the Bishop's Stortford Urban District Council

315

F9.90‑F9.110

Miscellaneous

 

F9.90

Menu from commemoratory luncheon at Rhodes birthplace,

1953

F9.91

Centenary service order, July 1953

 

F9.92

Brochure of Cecil Rhodes Memorial

 

F9.93

Postcards of Rhodes birthplace

 

F9.94

Rhodes Birthplace Memorial Trust: Central and South African Committees

 

F9.95

History of Rhodes Memorial Museum, Bishop's Stortford

 

F9.96‑F9.97

List of donors to Rhodes Memorial Trust

 

F9.98‑F9.101

Receipts and vouchers re Rhodes Birthplace Memorial Fund

 

F9.102

Extract from East Africa and Rhodesia, July 1953

 

F9.103‑F9.110

Newspaper clippings re Rhodes House, Bishop's Stortford, 1936‑1938

29

F10

Rhodes Cottage, Muizenberg

 

F10.1‑F10.36

Correspondence, 1937‑1958, amongst others with Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (F10.19, F10.21‑F10.24, F10.28); and letters from G.M. Huggins (F10.25, F10.29) and from L.S. Amery (F10.30)

82

F10.37‑F10.41

Miscellaneous, including report and memorandum on the Rhodes Cottage

14

F11

Rhodes Memorial, Groote Schuur

 

F11.1‑F11.35

Correspondence, 1931‑1958. Includes letters from J.H. Hofmeyr (F11.1), Sir Abe Bailey (F11.2‑F11.5, F11.9), Sir E. Oppenheimer (F11.7), F.C. Sturrock (F11.11), G. Heaton Nicholls (F11.20), T.B. Davie (F11.22), G.M. Huggins (F11.23), L.S. Amery (F11.25), W.K. Hancock (F11.27), Lord Malvern (F11.29, F11.31), and Sir De Villiers Graaff (F11.35)

79

F11.36‑F11.41

Miscellaneous, including lists of speakers at Rhodes Memorial services

10

F12

Rhodes Statues, Public Gardens, Cape Town and University of Cape Town

 

F12.1‑F12.21

Correspondence, manuscript and newspapers, 1954‑1956; and some odd items, including programme of the ceremony of unveiling the Rhodes statue, Gardens, 1910, and likewise of the Rhodes statue, UCT, 1934

42

G.

LITERARIA

 

G1‑G3

Correspondence re Sibbett's published works

 

G1

Correspondence arising out of Sibbett's article 'Modern Art As I See It'

 

G1.1‑G1.16

Letters from W.E.G. Solomon, chairman of the Brush and Chisel Club, Johannesburg. 1947‑1950

23

G1.17‑G1.93

Letters from Malcolm Mackenzie, secretary to The Empire Art Council, and some odd newspaper clippings. 1947‑1954

77

G1.94‑G1.116

Letters from F.C. Tilney, editor of Art and Reason.  1947‑1949

23

G1.117‑G1.232

Letters from various correspondents. 1947‑1959

122

G1.233‑G1.244

Miscellaneous, including reprints of 'Modern Art As I See It'

15

G2

Correspondence arising out of Sibbett's publications 'The Rubaiyat of Bridge' and 'A Noodle's Orations'

 

G2.1‑G2.99

Correspondence and letters. 1948‑1954

111

G2.100‑G2.111

Miscellaneous, including newspaper reviews of published items and TS. copy of 'A Rubaiyat of Bridge'

14

G3

Newspaper contributions arising out of Sibbett's 'A Noodle's Orations'

 

G3.1‑G3.28

Mainly letters to The Cape Argus for competition based on Sibbett's work on cliches

33

G4‑G6

Verse and Worse

 

G4

File of Sibbett's own verse

1

G5.1‑65.75

Verse by Sibbett and others

76

G6.1‑66.202

Quotations, anecdotes, literary scraps, etc., including a piece of doggerel in Charles Leonard's handwriting

202

H.

SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, TALKS

 

H1

On Rhodes and Jameson

 

H1.1

Speech by CJS at the opening of Rhodes's Birthplace

3

H1.2

Talk by CJS on Dr Jameson

3

H1.3

Rhodes's Credo

3

H1.4

Speech by CJS on Rhodes (c.1950s)

3

H1.5

Address by Carol Foster, American Consul‑General, at Rhodes Memorial, 30 March 1947

1

H1.6

Article by Howell Wright on his visit to South Africa to present a speech at Rhodes Memorial, 1946?

2

H1.7

Article by Sir A. Weston‑Jarvis in The African World on 'Cecil Rhodes As I Knew Him', October 1935

1

H2

Rotary Addresses

 

H2.1

'Cecil Rhodes', talk by CJS to the Rotary Club of London, 10 August 1935

3

H2.2

'South Africa and England', address by CJS to the London Rotary Club, 2 July 1938

3

H2.3

An address by CJS to the Rotary Conference in Havana, June 1940

3

H2.5

'Rotary Keeps On Growing', address by CJS to the Rotary Conference, July 1951

2

H3

On Thrift

 

H3.1

Radio talk by N.C. Havenga during International Thrift Week (1941?)

2

H3.2

Radio talk by CJS on National Thrift, August 1942

3

H3.3

Broadcast address by CJS on National Thrift, 3 May 1943

3

H3.4

Address by CJS on presentation of 70 millionth Union Loan Certificate, 25 September 1944

3

H3.5

Address by CJS on Twenty Five Years of Thrift in .South Africa, 1944

1

H3.6

Speech by CJS at civic luncheon, Durban, 17 July 1946

1

H3.7

Article from The Outspan on the Savings Movement, 26 July 1946

1

H3.8

Article for a Railway Workers' magazine, sent July 1946

1

H3.9

Article by CJS on Union Loan Certificates for Municipal Affairs, sent August 1946

1

H3.10

J.H. Hofmeyr's broadcast address on World Thrift Day, 31 October 1946

1

H3.11

Address on presentation to Governor‑General of 90 millionth Union Loan Certificate, Durban, 1946

1

H3.12‑H3.13

Notes and fair copy of address by CJS on presentation of 100 millionth Loan Certificate to D.F. Malan, 20 September 1949

2

H3.14‑H3.15

Speech by D.F. Malan on above occasion

3

H3.16

Article by CJS for The Outspan on 30th birthday of the Union Loan Certificate Scheme, 1949

1

H3.17

Extract from Deputy Mayor's speech at National Thrift Conference at Durban, 2 October 1951

1

H3.18

Address by CJS on presentation to Dr A.J. van der Merwe of 110 millionth Loan Certificate, Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952

3

H3.19‑H3.20

Speech by Dr van der Merwe on above occasion, 2 April

2

H3.21

Radio talk by CJS on National Thrift Movement, 30 May 1954

1

H3.22

Address by CJS to National Thrift Conference, Bloemfontein, 28 August 1955

1

H3.23

Article by CJS in Scottish Savings Bulletin

5

H3.24

Article by CJS in‑Wine Journal on National Savings Movement

3

H3.25

Article by CJS re resolution of Strand Chamber of Commerce on Union Loan Certificate Scheme

4

H3.26

Note by CJS on his 'expose of Political Economy' by way of reply to Professor W. Hutt

2

H3.27

Paper by CJS on Political Economy

2

H4

Masonic Address

 

H4.1

Sibbett's valedictory address, 26 September 1950

2

H5

1820 Memorial Settlers' Association

 

H5.1

Sibbett's speech as chairman to Central Executive, October 1951

3

H6

Owl Club Address

 

H6.1

Address by CJS to Owl Club, n.d.

3

H7

Cape"Parliamentary Debating Society

 

H7.1‑H7.3

Addresses, 1934

3

H8

On Socialism

 

H8.1‑H8.5

Addresses by CJS on Socialism

 

H8.6

Printed sermon, "'Socialism" Examined' by Rev. C. Voysey

8

H9

Business Addresses and Speeches

 

H9.1‑H9.6

Includes talks on advertising and speeches to the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce

16

H10

Miscellaneous

 

H10.1‑H10.17

Various items. Includes addresses on occasion of centenary of S.A. Museum, 1955 (H10.3 and H10.5)

22

J.

INVITATIONS, PROGRAMMES, BROCHURES

 

J1‑J62

Various. 1901‑1958

70

K.

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

 

K1‑K4

Scrapbooks of clippings

 

K1

Scrapbook, 23 August 1899 ‑ 3 November 1919, provides a comprehensive covering of Sibbett's life and activities

 

K2

Scrapbook, 4 February 1927 ‑ 23 June 1937

 

K3

Scrapbook, August 1937 ‑ 9 November 1948

 

K4

Scrapbook, 4 December 1948 ‑ 15 March 1961

4

K5‑K11

Loose clippings

 

K5

Clippings on Art (K5.1‑K5.144)

144

K6

Clippings on Sibbett's political activities and interests (K6.1‑K6.24)

26

K7

Clippings on Thrift (K7.1‑K7.60)

62

K8

Clippings on Literary matters (K8.1‑K8.39)

39

K9

Clippings on Rhodeseana (K9.1‑K9.57)

57

K10

Clippings on personal matters (K10.1‑K10.71)

72

K1l

Clippings: oddments (K11.1‑K11.70)

70

L.

PHOTOGRAPHS

 

Ll‑L6

Glass negatives of photographs from the UCT Sibbett Collection. [o/s] (6 boxes)

6

L7‑L12

Framed portrait photographs of Sibbett, including one of his home 'Mount Rhodes' [L12 o/s]

5

L13‑L63

Photographs, some mounted, of Sibbett, many of them portraits. [L61‑L63 o/s]

51

L64‑L86

Prints of original photographs in the UCT Sibbett Collection of Rhodeseana. [L84‑L86 1/s]

23

L87‑L90

Odd photographs

4

L91‑L92

Framed photographs of Cecil Rhodes?, September 1870; and a group of prominent men of Kimberley, 1886

2

L93‑L100

Framed cartoons

 

L93

Alfred Beit, by 'Trice'

 

L94

Dr Jameson, by 'Trice'

 

L95

Sibbett, chairman of the central Thrift Committee, by Boonzaaier

 

L96

Sibbett, by Boonzaaier: 'C.J. Sibbett adds another portrait to his Rhodes Collection'

 

L97

Sibbett, by Boonzaaier, no caption

 

L98

C.A. Owen Lewis, Rhodes's political secretary, by Boonzaaier

 

L99

Sibbett, M.P.C. for Cape Town Central, by Boonzaaier

 

L100

'Hold the Fort, for Fransie is Coming', by Boonzaaier (the subjects being Sibbett and F.S. Malan) [L100 o/s]

8

L101

Sibbett's X‑rays. (o/s) (1 envelope)

1

L102

Sibbett's desk pad. (o/s)

1

M.

GRAMAPHONE RECORDS

 

M1‑M5

Gramaphone recordings of speeches by Sibbett and others, including N.C. Havenga, J.H. Hofmeyr and D.F. Malan, of presentation ceremonies organised by the South African National Thrift Organization in connection with the Union Loan Certificate Scheme. 1941‑1958 [5 parcels]

5

N.

MISCELIANEA

 

N1‑N22

Miscellaneous items, including article on Sibbett's advertising agency and copy of The Monitor, January 1947, in which an article on Sibbett occurs

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