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BC 880 MONICA AND GODFREY WILSON PAPERS  

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

 

 

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Biographical note

 

The Collection

A

PERSONAL PAPERS OF GODFREY AND MONICA WILSON

B

CORRESPONDENCE

C

GODFREY WILSON: WRITINGS AND TALKS

D

NYAKYUSA RESEARCH (includes Ngonde research)

E

BROKEN HILL RESEARCH (includes Rhodes-Livingstone Institute)

F

THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

G

MONICA WILSON: STUDENT ESSAYS AND NOTES

H

EASTERN CAPE RESEARCH

J

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

K

LANGA

L

MONICA WILSON:  WRITINGS AND TALKS

M

MONICA WILSON: PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

N

PHOTOGRAPHS

P

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

Q

MISCELLANEOUS

 

PAPERS OF DAVID AND JESSIE HUNTER

AA

PERSONAL PAPERS

BB

CORRESPONDENCE

CC

ACCOUNTS AND FINANCIAL PAPERS

DD

LOVEDALE AND MISSIONARY WORK

EE

PHOTOGRAPHS

FF

MISCELLANEOUS

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Monica and Godfrey Wilson

Godfrey Wilson was born in 1908 in Cambridgeshire, England . His father was John Dover Wilson, the eminent Shakespearian scholar.  After attending Whitgift Grammar School in Croydon, he received an open Classical Scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford, 1927, where he took a first in “Greats”.  After reading Greats, he read anthropology under Bruno Malinowski.  In 1934, as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, he left for three years' field work among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde people in the territories then known as Tanganyika and Nyasaland.

In May 1938 he began work as the first Director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, in Northern Rhodesia, resigning in 1941. Here he did urban fieldwork among the migrant labourers on the mines in Broken Hill.  Though the mining companies supported the Institute financially, they were nervous of someone who socialised with the mine workers and could speak better Icibemba than they and withdrew permission for him to work in the mine compound .  They offered to supply him with an office out of the compound.  He then resigned. when war broke out.  He was succeeded by Max Gluckman.  The results of the fieldwork were published in two of the Rhodes-Livingstone papers as The Economics of detribalization in Northern Rhodesia.  Godfrey and Monica moved to South Africa where they worked together on The analysis of social change .  Godfrey was a pacifist on religious grounds.  After he joined an ambulance unit and was stationed first in Port Elizabeth, then in North Africa, drafts of the chapters went back and forth between husband and wife.  The book was published after his death in 1944. 

Monica Wilson was born on 3 January 1908 in Lovedale, where her parents, David and Jessie Hunter, were missionaries.  She attended school at Lovedale and then at a boarding school in Port Elizabeth.  She went to Girton College, Cambridge, where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in 1930.  She returned to South Africa to do two years’ fieldwork in Pondoland, and then spent 1933 and 1934 at Cambridge writing up her PhD thesis. This was later published as Reaction to conquest.  During this time she attended the weekly seminars of Malinowski at the London School of Economics, which were also attended by Godfrey Wilson.  She had first met him in Geneva in 1928 where they were both attending a summer school on international relations.  Her first public lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics in 1934, was on the methods of study of culture contact.  In 1935 she and Godfrey were married and she joined him in Tanganyika, having a Fellowship from the International African Institute. with a break in London for 6 months.  They lived in villages, close to the people they were studying.  After 1941 she worked with Godfrey to produce Analysis of social change.  She later wrote up the Nyakyusa research in a number of books: Good company, Rituals of kinship, Communal rituals, Peoples of the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor, Divine kings and breath of men.  After Godfrey's death, Monica went to lecture at Fort Hare, where Z K Matthews was a colleague.  In 1947 she was appointed Professor of Social Anthropology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, the first woman to hold a full professorship at this university.  While at Rhodes she took part in the Keiskammahoek study – She was responsible for two of the volumes: Social structure and Land tenure.  In 1952 she was appointed Professor at the University of Cape Town, where she remained until her retirement in 1973.  At UCT she supervised the Langa study, with first Cross-Upcott and then Archie Mafeje doing the fieldwork.  She co-authored the subsequent book with Mafeje.  In 1963 she co-edited,with Leonard Thompson the Oxford History of South Africa.  She died in October 1982. 

David and Jessie Hunter

David Hunter  F.R.S.C.S. ( ? - 1949) was born in Glasgow, Scotland.  In 1887 he joined the firm of Croggon & Co in London, resigning in 1892 to take up mission work.  After travelling extensively throughout Southern Africa,  he was appointed an Honorary Lay Missionary in Lovedale Institution in 1894.  James Stewart was the Principal at the time.   Hunter’s travels had made him aware of the need for hospitals and health services for Africans, and once at Lovedale he pressed for the building of a hospital.  This was approved by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in May 1895.  David Hunter himself raised much of the money for the building of the hospital by pleading the cause both in South Africa and Britain.  The Victoria Hospital was opened in 1898, with Hunter Honorary Secretary of the Hospital Board and responsible for the financial and business administration of the hospital.  It was closed during the South African War, but opened again in 1901 with Dr Neil Macvicar as Medical Superintendent.

From 1901 to 1932 Hunter was editor of The Christian express, which later became The South African Outlook.  As editor he promoted the Gospel as the one hope for South Africa and urged the need to strengthen the economic position of all South Africans.  He also played an active role in other spheres in Lovedale, as a member of the Education Board and the Governing Council and as preacher and elder.  He promoted the training of African girls as nurses, and the teaching of home industries. He actively encouraged the planting of trees.  In ca 1901 he married Jessie Macgregor, whose father had been a missionary in China.  She was involved in social work amongst the young girls at Lovedale, working for the White Cross Society at the Girls’ School.  She died a few months after him, in September 1949.

THE COLLECTION

The Monica and Godfrey Wilson Papers were presented to the University of Cape Town Libraries by Professor Francis Wilson and Dr Tim Wilson.  The Collection consists of two sections: the papers of Monica and Godfrey Wilson and the papers of Monica Wilson's parents, David and Jessie Hunter.  The papers of Monica and Godfrey Wilson consist both of personal papers and records of their anthropological research.  There is a large section of correspondence, both of a personal nature and with fellow anthropologists.  Both Godfrey and Monica's correspondence with Audrey Richards, in particular, spanned several decades.  All the records from Godfrey's fieldwork among the Nyakyusa people of Tanganyika and in Broken Hill in Northern Rhodesia are included in the Collection.  The Nyakyusa material is complemented by Monica's own notes on her research amongst these people.  In addition there are papers relating to Monica Wilson's research in the Eastern Cape and in Langa, near Cape Town.  Papers relating to Monica's professorship at the University of Cape Town include lecture notes, course programmes and papers to do with the administration of the Social Anthropology Department.  Her involvement in the Academic Freedom Committee is also documented.  The David and Jessie Hunter Papers include both personal papers and papers relating to their work at Lovedale.  There are diaries, correspondence, writings by David Hunter on Lovedale and mission work and papers showing his interest in the teaching of crafts and the Boys Brigade.

Permission to consult the papers will be granted at the discretion of the University Librarian.  Permission to consult the correspondence between Godfrey and Monica Wilson is required from either Professor Francis Wilson or Dr Tim Wilson.

A

PERSONAL PAPERS

 

A1

Godfrey Wilson

No. of items

A1.1

School certificates, 1924, 1926 & 1927 (one O/S)

3

A1.2

Officers Training Corps Certificate, 1926

1

A1.3

First Aid Certificate, 1940

 

A1.4

Wallet and contents:

 

 

Certified copy of letter from Godfrey Wilson to Monica Wilson, 14.5.1944

 

 

Military pass book

 

 

Cheque book

 

 

S.A.E.C. membership card for Officers’ Mess, 1944

 

 

Yellow fever inoculation certificate, 24.9.1943

 

 

Supplementary kit issue sheet

 

 

SA Permanent Force: Arms and accoutrement form, 28.2.1944

 

 

Form announcing promotion to A/Lt, 23.12.1943

 

 

Letter from doctor, 21.2.1944

 

 

Kit deficiency sheet, 18.10.1043

 

 

Miscellaneous forms re kit

 

 

Epaulettes

 

A1.5

Diary, 1934 –1935

1

A1.6

Address books

2

A1.7

Hymn book: Hymns of the Kingdom

 

A1.8

A Devotional diary, arranged by J Oldham

 

A1.9 

Banks:

 

 

Standard Bank of South Africa

 

 

-Cheque-book stubs, 1935-1942

 

 

-Bank statements, Sep 1936-April 1942

 

 

-Cleared cheques, 1940-1941

 

 

-Debit forms, 1940-1941

 

 

-Letter from Standard Bank, Jan 1938

 

 

Westminster Bank Ltd

 

 

-Cheque-book stubs, 1936

 

 

-Bank statements, 1937-1942

 

A1.10

Application for permit for conveyance of motor car by rail, May 1944

 

A1.11

Budget of field expenses (undated)

 

A1.12

Coupons for free enlargement of photographs

 

A1.13

Draft of curriculum vitae

 

A1.14

Papers re Godfrey Wilson’s death, 1944

 

A1.15

Invoices, correspondence re goods ordered, receipts, etc, 1936-1944

 

A2

Monica Wilson

 

A2.1

Certificates from Cambridge University (all oversize):

 

 

Bachelor of Arts, 1930

 

 

Honours, 1930

 

 

Master of Arts, 1933

 

 

Doctor of Philosophy, 1934 

 

A2.2

Pocket diaries, 1927-1930, 1935, 1947-1973, 1979-1980

 

A2.3

Notebooks

 

A2.4

Address book

 

A2.5

School history book, 1925

 

A2.6 

School reports, 1919-1924

 

A2.7 

Certificate: Synod’s Examination in Religious Knowledge, 1919

 

A2.8 

Presbyterian minister’s statement of Monica Wilson’s fitness to join congregation, 1926

 

A2.9

School and university accounts

 

A2.10

Wedding invitation to Monica and Godfrey Wilson’s wedding, 1935

 

A2.11

Dental x-rays and covering letter from dentist, 10.05.1937

 

A2.12

Prescription for spectacles, 1938

 

A2.13

Funeral service for Monica Wilson, 1982

2

A2.14

Family tree

 

A2.15

Notes: Anthropology in South Africa, recorded for Jom Fox, Behavioral Sciences Centre, April 1972

 

A2.16

Reports on overseas visit and special leave

 

A2.17

Notes on anthropological work

 

A2.18

Bibliography, 1965

1

A2.19

Rough notes on various subjects

 

A2.20

Prayers

 

A2.21

“Reflections on books read”, 1948

 

A2.22

Customs forms:

 

 

-requesting permission to export Corona typewriter, 6.12.1932

 

 

-requesting permission to export HMV portable gramophone and records, 2.3.1935

 

A2.23

Bookplates

2

A2.24

Invitations, 1971-1975

3

A2.25

Visiting cards

2

A2.26

Extract from Sir Richard Luyt’s tribute to Leo Marquard, 1974

1

A2.27

Postcards

 

A2.28

Recipe for brown cake

 

A2.29

Knitting pattern

 

A2.30

Delivery invoice: Rustica Press

 

A2.31

Stationery

 

B

CORRESPONDENCE

 

B1

Letters from Monica Wilson to Godfrey Wilson, 15.02.1934-1944

190

B2

Letters from Godfrey Wilson to Monica Wilson, 30.06.1930-14.05.1944

438

B3

Letters to Godfrey Wilson from parents and family

 

B3.1

From father (Professor John Dover Wilson), MSS, 29.05.1936-09.01.1941

3

B3.2

From mother, MSS, 08.12.1937-27.12.1940

7

B3.3

From sister (Audrey Lawson), MSS, 05.12.1937-10.01.1942

6

B3.4

From grandfather (Canon Baldwin), MSS, 03.03.1938 and undated

3

B3.5

From sister (Carol), MS, Dec 1940

1

B4

Letters to Godfrey Wilson (mostly personal and with fellow anthropologists)

 

B4.1

From Desmond and Betty Clark, MSS, 13.01.1940-09.11.1940

5

B4.2

From James W C Dougall, TSS & MS, 29.01.1935-21.10.1935

3

B4.3

To and from Meyer Fortes, TSS, 05.01.1938-25.12.1941

4

B4.4

To and from Bruno Malinowski, MSS & TSS, 22.11.1934-11.11.1938 (see also letter in B4.11)

17

B4.5

From Lucy Mair , MSS & TSS, 18.09.1935-22.01.1938 (includes memorandum by GW entitled Outline of land tenure)

5

B4.6

To and from Dr J H Oldham, TSS, 17.01.1936-22.06.1939 (both personal and in his position as Administrative Director of the African Institute)

5

B4.7

To and from Audrey Richards, MSS & TSS, 27.03.1931-07.07.1941

110

B4.8

From Stephen Usherwood, MSS, 11.01.1938-20.10.1941

6

B4.9

From Alfred Zimmern, MSS, 01.01.1938-13.07.1941

3

B4.10

Correspondence with others, in chronological order, MSS & TSS, 1935-1943

 

B4.11

Correspondence with and re-Rhodes Livingstone Institute, 14.01.1938- Includes letter from Bruno Malinowski and letters from Max Gluckman)

20

B4.12

Correspondence re-application to Rhodes University for chair of Sociology, 20.08.1941-25.10.1941

5

B4.13

Correspondence (of GW and MW) with Makerere College, Uganda, 23.12.1943-12.10.1944

11

B4.14

Correspondence with Rockefeller Foundation, 06.06.1934-24.02.1938

17

B4.15

Miscellaneous: incomplete letter from unidentified correspondent   Copy of letter from F E Mqadi to Native Education Dept, Bulawayo

 

B5

MW: family correspondence

 

B5.1

From MW to her father (David Hunter), 24.08.1918-19.04.1944

360

 

and letters from DAH to MW, 31.10.1937-25.03.1949

6

B5.2

From MW to her mother (Jessie Hunter), MS, 01.11.1931, 1947-1948

17

 

And letters from JH to MW, Feb-Mar, 1949

3

B5.3

Letters from Francis Wilson to MW, Jan 1946 and 1947 and to grandparents

3

B5.4

Letter from MW to Timothy Wilson, 06.03.1966

1

B5.5

Letters from Lindy Wilson to MW, 02.01.1973-24.11.1974

3

B5.6

From Prof & Mrs John Dover Wilson, 18.10.1936-21.07.1946

5

B5.7

From Audrey and David Lawson, 15.12.1972-20.05.1978

6

B6

Correspondence with others

 

B6.1

To and from Aelred C.R., 20.12.1972-26.08.1977

10

B6.2

From Barbara Bottomley, 21.01.1974-25.04.1978

4

B6.3

To and from Guy, Jean and Christopher Butler, 02.02.1971-19.04.1978

18

B6.4

To and from Bice Crighton-Miller, 12.01.1973-25.04.1978

19

B6.5

To and from E E Evans-Pritchard, MSS & TSS, 04.06.1946-09.07.1946

3

B6.6

From Max Gluckman , TSS, 15.08.1942-15.01.1947; includes MG’s  Critical introduction to material on the Lamba

2

B6.7

To and from Elizabeth Graham, 05.10.[1975?]-19.05.1978

11

B6.8

To and from Pauline Hall, 10.12.1970-09.03.1977

8

B6.9

From Una Hodson, 03.11.1974-10.02.1978

6

B6.10

From Noni Jabavu, 20.10.1974-13.09.1977

2

B6.11

From Nell and Leo Marquard, 30.08.1971-12.01.1977

12

B6.12

From Elspeth Moll, 27.10.1975-12.10.1976

4

B6.13

To and from A R Radcliffe-Brown, 10.08.1946-1952(includes letter of 24.10.1955 informing MW of R-B’s death, and MW’s essay Kinship and marriage among the Nyakyusa)

7

B6.14

To and from Audrey Richards, 29.08.1940-15.02.1982

137

B6.15

From E R Roux, 05.11.1928-05,12.1931

12

B6.16

From Isaac Schapera, MSS, 26.07.1938-01.11.1976

3

B6.14

From Polly van Coller, 1970s

7

B6.19

To and from David Welsh, 24.02.1972-23.03.1972

4

B6.20

Miscellaneous single letters, including letters from Jan Smuts (1936), Desmond Clark (1936). Helen Suzman (1974) and Noel Robb

179

B7

“Official correspondence”, re-publications, conferences, societies, etc, 1967-1975

 

B8

UCT correspondence: letters of appointment, correspondence about research grants and fellowships, invitations to University functions, etc, 1967-1974

 

B9

Anthropological enquiries.  Correspondence relating to anthropology. 1969-1976

 

B10

Correspondence re “Distinguished professorship” at State University of New at Binghampton, 1967

 

B11

Correspondence re year at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1968

3

B12

Correspondence with Botswana Society about lecture, 1969.  Includes letter from Frieda Matthews and MW’s reply.

3

B13

Correspondence with Rhodes University re Honorary degree, 1969-1970.  Includes congratulatory letters.

19

B14

Correspondence with University of Sierra Leone re Consultation for African Theologians at the University of Lovanium, Congo-Kinshasa, 1970

5

B15

Correspondence with International African Institute re reproduction of photograph and reprinting of passage, 1974

 

B16

Correspondence with Colleen Taylor re typing of manuscript, 1974

4

B17

Christmas cards, n.d., and card from Tanya

8

C

GODFREY WILSON: WRITINGS AND TALKS

 

C1

Malinowski seminars: notes on/papers prepared for ?

 

 

Seminar paper read at the London School of Economics, 19.10.1933

 

 

Ten elements of social life: a suggested guide to research in the field.  TSS. [Paper prepared for] Bruno Malinowski seminar, 17.06.1936

 

 

The Nature of an institution.  MSS

 

 

Notes on institutions, discussing Malinowski’s and Borkenau’s criticism.

 

 

Paper defining various concepts: religion, religious and magical symbolism, etc, necessary for understanding of connection between religion and society.  Includes references to Nyakyusa society.  MSS

 

 

Notes on Hogbin’s law and order.  MSS

 

 

The Function of law.  MSS

 

 

Law seminar. “1/2 hour paper”, 10.03.1936.  MSS

 

 

The distinction of institutional and personal.

 

C2

Notes on books read

 

 

Notes on Some tasks for Christian thought by H A Hodges, and copy of paper.

 

 

Ends and means by Aldous Huxley – a critical appreciation, 20.03.1938

 

C3

Essay on principles of social science – outline

 

 

The analysis of social fact

 

 

MSS chapters(?):  Latent illogicality

 

 

Thought and language

 

 

Formal elements.  Logic

 

 

Theoretical chapters

 

 

Some principles for the investigation of culture contact.  Incomplete.  MSS & TSS

 

 

Historical process and the actuality of particular periods

 

C4

Writings on religion.  (Includes material on the Nyakyusa)

 

C5

Inaugural lecture.  MSS draft of lecture on nature of society.

 

 

Man.  Social change.   Two drafts, one incomplete

 

C6

Writings during World War II and notes by GW on writings by others.

 

 

Letter to Prof E H Carr, 20.01.1943, discussing Carr’s Conditions of peace

 

 

Draft of handbook: The Rebirth of the West: a new Christendom

 

 

GW’s notes on The Rebirth of the West. TSS

 

 

Mannheim, Karl: Planning for freedom

 

 

GW’s notes on Planning for freedom

 

 

Information about the Association of Scientific Workers

 

 

The Scientific worker, two issues, Mar & April 1941

 

C7

Talks, essays and workshops during World War II

 

 

Anti-Jewish movement (SA)

 

 

Yugoslavia

 

 

Winston Churchill

 

 

Work of an intelligence officer

 

 

The Governor-General’s National War fund

 

 

Savings and inflation

 

 

The profit motive

 

 

Social Anthropology

 

 

The Free French Movement up to 1943

 

 

Collective farms in the USSR

 

 

Native Mine Wages Commission

 

 

Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission (van Eck report)

 

 

Japan

 

 

Representation of Natives

 

 

War Service (Employment) Bill

 

 

Nationalism

 

 

South African and world prosperity

 

 

Social security

 

C8

Notebook, containing notes on demobilization, 15.05.1944 and the Broederbond. Freedom and determinism in public affairs. n.d.

 

D

NYAKYUSA RESEARCH

 

D1

Godfrey Wilson’s notebooks

 

D1.1

GW’s notebooks 1 – 79 (no 12 missing) Index (incomplete)

 

D1.2

John Mwaikombo notebooks J1 – J20

 

D1.3

Leonard Mwaisumo notebook L1 – L7

 

D1.4

T Mwanjin notebook

 

D1.5

Empty notebooks

 

D2

Folders on Age-villages

 

 

The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders.

 

D2.1

Nyakyusa age-villages “material here also on communal rituals and Chiefs’ medicines”

 

 

MW ‘s notes, MSS and TSS

 

 

Includes material on ubosoka

 

D2.2

Nyakyusa villages

 

 

Ch II: Village organisation

 

 

Includes 3 TS drafts of ch II of Good company

 

 

Some notes

 

 

Letter from Audrey Richards to MW, 20.11.1947

 

 

Letter from Dr A H J Prins to MW, n.d. and draft reply from MW to Dr Prins

 

D2.3

Village relations

 

 

File subtitled: Main points

 

 

Questions

 

 

Early TS and MS notes in preparation for ch V of Good company

 

D2.4

Correlates of age-villages

 

 

TS draft of ch VII of Good company: Characteristics of an age-village organisation

 

 

Odd notes (MW)

 

D2.5

Procedure in witchcraft cases

 

 

MW’s fieldnotes, TS

 

D3

Folders on Communal rituals The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders.

 

D3.1

Cleansing the country

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS, some dated 1937

 

D3.2

Rituals in chief’s groves

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

Notes by GW on “Prayers and sacrifice”

 

D3.3

Pali Kyala

 

 

MW’s notes, TS

 

 

Extract from Fulleborn: Das Deutsche Njassa- und Ruwuma-gebiet p 316-323

 

D3.4

Mbande

 

 

MW’s notes, TS

 

D3.5

Kasitile’s sickness

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.6

Lubaga

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.7

Rain making

 

 

“Sprinkling for fertility”

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.8

Death and burial of a chief

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.9

Ubosoka

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.10

Genealogies and graves

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.11

Prophecy and trances

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

D3.12

The Communal rituals

 

 

Scheme notes, MS and TS

 

D3.13

Organisation of Mwanyiki’s chiefdom

 

 

Genealogical table

 

 

Map of villages of Mwaipopo’s chiefdom, 1955

 

D3.14

War (over boundaries)

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

 

Notes (by clerk?), MS

 

D3.15

Lwembe, Kyala and Mbasi -relations to shades

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

D3.16

Ifibanga and chiefdoms

 

 

GW’s notes, MS

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

Includes statistics

 

D3.17

Law and judicial institutions (arbitration and courts)

 

 

GW’s notes, MS, headed:

 

 

Mwaipopo’s court, 18.3.1935

 

 

Before Mwaipopo, 18.3.1935

 

 

Law and judicial institutions, Dec 1934

 

D3.18

Celebration of rituals, 1955

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

D4

Missions/ Christian influences The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders.

 

D4.1

Mission land tenure

 

 

MW and GW’s notes

 

D4.2

Christian amusements

 

 

MW and GW’s notes, also notes of one of clerks

 

D4.3

Influence of Christianity on pagans

 

 

MW and GW’s notes, also notes of one of clerks

 

D4.4

Sermons

 

 

MW and GW’s notes, also notes of one of clerks

 

D4.5

African National Church

 

 

MW’s notes, MS

 

D4.6

Christian funeral

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

D4.7

Nyakyusa Christians

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

D5

Kinship/ Family The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders.

 

D5.1

Family (economics)

 

D5.2

Kinship

 

 

Mostly MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

Some notes by GW, MS

 

D6

Other topics The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders.

 

D6.1

Fire myth/ myth of volcanic disturbance

 

 

MW’s notes, MS and TS

 

 

Letter from D A  Harkin, Dept of Geological Survey, Tanganyika, 26.8.1954, about volcanic activity in the Rungwe area.

 

D6.2

Songs and folk tales

 

 

Copied by MW , GW and clerk

 

D6.3

Tradition

 

 

GW: Nsamba’s story, Oct 1934

 

 

Mwandesi’s story

 

 

Notes by clerk L

 

 

MW’s notes

 

 

TS: Notes on the history of the Bangonde

 

D6.4

Race relations

 

 

MW’s notes

 

D6.5

Earning money

 

 

MW’s notes

 

 

Also notes by one of clerks

 

D6.6

Family (art)

 

 

MW’s notes

 

 

TS of article: Traditional art of among the Nyakyusa

 

D6.7

The Lupa

 

 

100 point questionnaire/survey form on the Lupa, compiled by GW

 

 

Answers to some of the questions

 

D6.8

Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor

 

 

MW’s notes

 

 

Includes notes on language and dialects, cultural groups,  characteristics of people

 

D6.9

The peoples of the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor

 

 

MW’s notes: “Notes for working copy”

 

 

Includes MS map of area

 

D6.10

Land tenure

 

 

MW’s notes, MS

 

 

GW’s notes and early draft of article or chapter on land tenure

 

 

Includes letter to GW from Jack Dashwood(?) from Tukuyu, 5.10.1938

 

D7

NGONDE RESEARCH

 

 

The headings are those used by MW in labelling the folders

 

D7.1

Letters to GW from Amon B Mwakasungula, 1939, in response to questions about Ngonde customs

 

D7.2

Political system of the Ngonde/ Religious elements

 

 

GW’s drafts, MSS & TSS

 

D7.3

Ngonde: political material

 

D8

MW’s and GW’s writings on the Nyakyusa  See also Section L for MW’s writings

 

D8.1

MW: TS of For men and elders, Draft II, May 1972 (initially titled Family affairs)  Drafts of ch I, III, IV, V, VI and VII.

 

D8.2

MW: draft 3, 1974, copy 2 of  For men and elders Ch I: Introduction

 

D8.3

Map of Central East Africa (oversize)

 

D8.4

Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa, TSS

 

D8.5

MS of GW’s book on Nyakyusa society

 

D8.6

The Elements of behaviour: MSS by GW

 

D8.7

Wilson, Godfrey: Conventions of burial.  Reprint from Bantu Studies, March 1939

 

D8.8

Wilson, Godfrey: The Economic element of Nyakyusa society. MSS

 

D9

Nyakyusa: completed survey forms (3): Questions of all employers in Rungwe District for the year 1936

 

D10

Letters to GW, mostly in Nyakyusa, 1933-39 Including from John Brown Mwaikombo, Timothy Mwanjisi, W Ambilikile Mwaisemba and T L Mwaisumo.

 

D11

Correspondence with International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, including reports from the field, 1935-1939

 

D12

Photographs

 

D13

Other references

 

D13.1

Notes made by GW from writings by others

 

D13.2

Letters in response to requests for information from MW, 24.06.1957 – 13.04.1958, including from Desmond Clark

 

E

BROKEN HILL RESEARCH

 

 

(Includes Rhodes-Livingstone Institute)

 

E1

Notebooks, 1938-1939

 

E.1.1- E1.7

Notebooks containing Chibemba vocabulary

 

E1.8

“Bemba notes”, Jul-Aug 1938

 

E1.9

Notebook: Livingstone, June 1938

 

E1.10

Notebook/diary, Dec 1938

 

E1.11-E1.14

Notebooks of assistants, recording hut censuses

 

E1.15-E1.17

Notebooks of assistants, recording biographical sketches

 

E2

Broken Hill Mine Compound

 

E2.1

Outline biographies of married men in the mine compound, Feb 1939-May 1940

 

E2.1.1

Married file I

 

 

Includes list of men interviewed

 

E2.1.2

Married file II

 

E2.1.3

Married file III

 

E2.1.4

Outline biography of Duncan Canda (2 folders)

 

E2.1.5

Notes on Mulenga Bisketi

 

E2.1.6

Notes on Mulenga

 

E2.1.7

Notes on Laurenti Blani, Feb-Apr 1940

 

E2.1.8

Notes on Xavier Kofie

 

E2.2

Outline biographies of bachelors in the mine compound, 1939 -1940

 

E2.2.1

Bachelors file I

 

 

Includes list of men interviewed

 

E2.2.2

Bachelors file II

 

E2.2.3

Bachelors file III

 

E2.3

General conditions and structure of compounds.  Includes labour returns for Nov & Dec 1939 for the Rhodesian Broken Hill Development Co Ltd, and notes re interviews with mine managers

 

E3

Broken Hill Town Compound

 

E3.1.1

Outline biographies of men in the Town Compound, 1939-1940 Includes list of men interviewed

 

E3.1.2

Outline biography of Moroheni Mumbi (Marokeni?) (no.5 on list)

 

E3.1.3

Outline biography of K Keala (no.8 on list)

 

E3.1.4

Biographical notes on M Mulenga & others (no.6 on list)

 

E3.1.5

Outline biography of Julius (no.11 on list)

 

E3.1.6

Notes on John Brown Kanjanja (no.1 on list)

 

E3.2

Hut census

 

E3.3

General conditions and structure

 

E4

Broken Hill: Mine Farms

 

E4.1

Outline biographies of people living on the Broken Hill Mine Farms, 1937-1940  Includes list of men interviewed  (2 folders)

 

E4.2

Hut census

 

E5

 Broken Hill: Government farms

 

E5.1

Outline biographies of men living on the Government farms, 1939-1940  Includes list of men interviewed

 

E5.2

Hut census

 

E6

Broken Hill: Railway Compound

 

E6.1

Outline biographies of men living in the Railway Compound, 1939.  Includes list of men interviewed

 

E6.2

General conditions of compound, 1939: notes and tables re labour, housing, agriculture.

 

 

Hut census

 

E7

Broken Hill: Miscellaneous

 

E7.1

Outline biographies of 6 people from other places in Broken Hill (including aerodrome)

 

E8

Tables

 

 

Wage rates, detribalisation, marriage, food consumption

 

E8.1

Notes re wage rates in Broken Hill, 1939

 

E8.2

Tables showing wage rates in Broken Hill, 1939.  MSS

 

E8.3

Tables showing detribalisation in Broken Hill, 1939

 

E8.4

Tables showing the economics of marriage in Broken Hill

 

 

Tables showing the divorces in Broken Hill

 

E8.5

Tables and notes showing consumption of and expenditure on food

 

E8.6

Tables relating to various aspects of Broken Hill research

 

E8.7

Tables showing wages and cash expenditure

 

E9

Subject files

 

E9.1

Broken Hill: general conditions and structure

 

E9.2

Mine market: notes, 1940

 

E9.3

Churches and schools: notes, 1939/40

 

E9.4

Native welfare:

 

 

Notes, including outline biographies

 

 

Report on welfare work amongst urbanised natives at Broken Hill  [1936 & 1937], compiled by H Franklin, District Officer

 

E9.5

Legal proceedings

 

 

Notes on legal procedure

 

 

Notes on meeting which Information Officer held to tell Africans about the war

 

E9.6

Political organisations. 1940.

 

 

Notes on “unlicensed visitors”

 

 

Notes on visiting chiefs

 

E9.7

Pagan religion. 1940

 

 

Notes on witchcraft and sorcery

 

E9.8

“Houseboys”

 

 

Notes, 1940

 

E9.9

Dancing

 

 

Notes on dance club, compound dance competitions, 1940

 

E9.10

Law (marriage)

 

 

Notes of interviews, 1939-1940

 

E9.11

Marriage

 

 

List of information listing facts required re-marriage.

 

 

Notes of interviews

 

E9.12

Oaths

 

 

Letter from GW, 11.04,1940, to Mr Crawford, District Commissioner of Broken Hill, in reply to query about possibility of introducing “Native oaths into Subordinate Courts”.  Includes information on Bemba, Ngoni and Chewa oaths.

 

E9.13

Biographical information about various individuals, including:

 

 

Melech Icoro (Mine Compound)

 

 

Paul Mhole (?) (Government farms)

 

 

Keala (Town compound)

 

 

Gideon (Mine Compound)

 

E9.14

Biographical information about various individuals.  Includes “Informations about percentages of men belonging to different tribes in Mine Compound)

 

 

Letter from GW to Mr Hermans, Compound Manager at BHDC, 19.04.1939, thanking him for his assistance

 

 

Letter from GW to Manager of Barclays Bank, Livingstone, 20.04.1939, thanking him for numbers of “Native depositors in your Bank in Northern Rhodesia and the total amount held for them”.

 

 

List of Barclays Bank branches in Northern Rhodesia, 31.03.1939, and numbers of African investors and total amounts held for them.

 

E9.15

Mine compound and mine work

 

 

List of questions to ask in interviews, 07.10.1940.

 

 

Figures of numbers of taxpayers, employers, etc in Northern Rhodesia.

 

 

Notes on savings, transport.

 

E9.16

“Miscellaneous”.  Includes:

 

 

Census of Broken Hill Mine Market, 31.01.1940

 

 

Broken Hill social life

 

 

“Research on disequilibrium”

 

 

Broken Hill economics

 

 

Notes [made by GW’s assistants?] re finances of various individuals.

 

 

Paper entitled Ignorance is no defence, 1940 by H Franklin (magistrate in Northern Rhodesia)

 

 

GW’s notes on various interviews, subjects

 

E9.17

Zachim (assistant): biographies

 

 

Biographies of various individuals

 

E9.18

Report: Building up an educational system in an urban area.  A review of Native education in the Copper Belt of Northern Rhodesia in 1938, by C J Opper.  Also covering letter from Opper to GW, 01.04.1939.

 

E9.19

Notes on Bemba grammar

 

E9.20

Ngoni marriage (notes by assistant)

 

E10

Writing up of research:

 

 

Economics of detribalization in Northern Rhodesia

 

E10.1

First draft, TSS and MSS (4 folders)

 

E10.2

Part II: drafts of Introductory note and table of contents, MSS & TSS

 

E10.3

Reviews of Parts I and II

 

E11

Other Northern Rhodesian research

 

E11.1

Notes on Lusaka

 

 

Notes on authority

 

E11.2

Livingstone

 

 

Includes notes on Maramba Compound, Railway Compound

 

E11.3

The Human geography of Luangwa Province, Northern Rhodesia, TS

 

 

Includes

 

 

Thomson, J Moffat: The Human geography of Broken Hill District, 1931

 

 

Stevens, C G: Human geography of the Mkushi District, 1933 Human geography of the Serenji District

 

E12

Rhodes-Livingstone Institute

 

E12.1

Director’s report on the work of the first three years, 1938-9-40

 

E12.2

Minutes of a meeting of the Livingstone Trustees, 31.10.1941

 

F

THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

 

F1

Notes and drafts, MSS and TSS

 

F2

Letters of comment and congratulations, 1945-1949, including from A R Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Zimmern

 

F3

Reviews

 

G

MONICA WILSON: STUDENT NOTES AND ESSAYS

 

G1

Student essays, 1930, with comments by T C Hodson

 

 

Social differentiation

 

 

Tylor’s theory of animism

 

 

Communal elements in S A Native life

 

G2

Notes by MW, probably made while a student (2 folders)

 

H

EASTERN CAPE RESEARCH

 

H1

Reaction to conquest

 

H1.1

Early drafts, notes.  Request slips for British Library Reading Room.

 

H1.2

Letters received after publication, 1936-1938

 

H1.3

Reviews

 

H2

Research in Auckland, Victoria East District

 

H2.1

Sketches of clothing ornamentation, tobacco bags, basketwork, etc Family trees

 

H2.2

Field notes, draft, TSS

 

H2.3

Notes, in Xhosa [by assistant?]

 

 

Letter from N Makalima to MW, 12.07.1933

 

 

Part of letter from David Hunter to MW, 07.01.1934

 

H3

Notes from other sources consulted

 

H3.1

Notes from other sources consulted (3 folders)

 

H4

Keiskama Hoek Rural Survey

 

 

(Economic aspect of the survey carried out under the direction of Prof Hobart Houghton at Rhodes University; Social Anthropological aspect under the general guidance of MW (Rhodes University) and Prof Matthews (University of Fort Hare)

 

H4.1

Progress report for year ended 31 Dec 1948

 

 

Preliminary draft of Report on the economy of the district

 

 

Letter from Mike [?], 15.01.1951, enclosing his notes on Burnshill

 

 

Draft TS on Burnshill Village

 

 

Notes by MW on “questions for Mike”

 

 

Report on the Nqutu Reserve and the problem of land rehabilitation in the Native areas, n.d.

 

 

Robb, R Lindsay: The Vegetation of the watershed (Amatola Mountains); its restoration and control in water conservation

 

 

Devolution and transfer of Native-owned land falling within the purview of Proclamation No 119 of 1931: report of the Chief Native Commissioner, King William’s Town, 11.01.1951

 

 

Notes by MW

 

 

Letter to David Hobart Houghton and MW [from ?], reporting on the work on the survey

 

 

Kaplan, S J: Rural research: Keiskamahoek

 

H5

Nqolo Nqolo

 

 

Migration survey, Nqolo Nqolo, [ca 1948-1950?]

 

J

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

 

J1

Social Anthropology Department: administration

 

 

staffing, administration of Social Anthropology Dept, 1953-1972

 

J2

Social Anthropology Department: students

 

 

information re-students, 1968-1972

 

J3

Examinations

 

 

Correspondence with external examiners, copies of exam papers, internal UCT circulars, 1953-1970

 

J4

Reading lists and course programmes, 1953-1973:

 

 

Native Law and Administration

 

 

Social Anthropology

 

 

African History

 

J5

Lecture notes

 

 

 includes some lectures she would have given at the University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University

 

 

includes notes made by MW that could also have been drafts of articles and notes made from her reading (6 folders)

 

J6

Open Universities

 

J6.1

Papers concerning UCT Academic Freedom Committee and Open Universities, 1956-1966.  Includes correspondence, minutes, notes, statements, reports.

 

J6.2

Notes, drafts for The Idea of a University (chapter in The Open Universities in South Africa)

 

J6.3

Letters, comments from recipients of copies of The Open Universities in South Africa, 1957

 

J6.4

Legislation

 

 

Report of the Commission of Enquiry on separate training facilities for Non-Europeans at universities (Holloway Commission), 1953-1954

 

 

Separate Education Bill, 1957 (First reading)

 

 

Native Laws Amendment Bill [A.B. 35-57]

 

 

Extension of University Education Bill, 1958 (First reading)

 

 

Report of the Commission on the Separate University Education Bill, 1958

 

J6.5

Pamphlets, reprints

 

 

Alty, Dr T: University autonomy, reprinted from The S A Outlook, May 1959

 

 

Centlivres, The Hon A van de Sandt: Blundering into University Apartheid (public address, 5 Feb 1959)

 

 

Education League: Open minds and open universities, 1956

 

 

Institute of Race Relations: The Idea of the University: a symposium, 1954

 

 

University College of Fort Hare: Comment on proposed legislation affecting the University College of Fort Hare

 

J7

Departmental files

 

J7.1

A J H Goodwin’s lecture notes on ethnology and Archaeology,  1950s

 

J7.2

 Essays and theses on status of women

 

J7.2.1

Foggin, B J M: The position of women in Bantu society (essay submitted for the Arnold Wynne Essay Prize, 1932)

 

J7.2.2

 Griffiths, J E S: The Girls’ initiation ceremony among the Amapondo (Thesis - Diploma in Anthropology, Cambridge, 1931)

 

J7.2.3

Hammond-Tooke, W D: The Nature and significance of bride wealth among the South African Bantu (Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of MA(Anthropology), UCT, 1948

 

J7.2.4

Rousseau, H J: The Position of women in Bantu society (Essay submitted for the Arnold Wynne Essay Prize, 1932)

 

J7.2.5

 Wessels, Veronica: The Status of women in Sotho-Tswana society  (MA Thesis, n.d)

 

J7.3

Essays and theses on the Zulu people

 

J7.3.1

Griffiths, J E: The social organisation of the Zulus and part II of Aesthetic and intellectual culture (UCT, 1928)

 

J7.3.2

Linde, J F: Ceremonial institutions and life cycle (Social Anthropology II)

 

J7.3.3

McCullough, M W: Thesis on the material culture of the Zulus (UCT, 1928)

 

J7.3.4

Nicholls, I H: Agricultural ceremonies amongst the Zulus (Social Anthropology II)

 

J7.3.5

Smidt, J F: Ceremonial institutions and life cycle (Social Anthropology II)

 

J7.3.6

Wessels, V: Rise of the Zulu power and its resulting offshoots (MA thesis)

 

J7.4

South, Central and East Africa

 

J7.4.1

Basson, A: The Native tribes of the Congo region, 1927

 

J7.4.2

Bell, E: Bantu initiation south of the Zambezi (Thesis submitted for the Degree of MA (Social Anthropology), UCT, 1929)

 

J7.4.3

Cook, P A W: The social status of the blacksmith in Africa (Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MA, UCT, 1926)

 

J7.4.4

Higgins, M G: The Social organisation of the Bakongo (Social Anthropology II)

 

J7.4.5

Olsen, A C: Native tribes of Africa in Portuguese territory (Social Anthropology II, 1927)

 

J7.4.6

Shaw, E M: The Dual kingship system of the Ashanti (Social Anthropology II)

 

J7.4.7

Snoxall, R: Culture contacts in East Africa

 

J7.4.8

The People of the district of Kasulu in the Province of Kigoma - Tanganyika Territory, 1932

 

J7.4.9

The Tribes of Uganda and Kenya

 

J7.5

Rhodesias and Nyasaland

 

J7.5.1

Biggs, P R: Nyasaland Protectorate, 1927

 

 

 North West Rhodesia, 1927

 

 

 North Eastern Rhodesia, 1927

 

 

Southern Rhodesia, 1927

 

J7.5.2

Foggin, B J: The Political organisation of the Mashona tribes, 1934

 

J7.5.3

O’Neil, Rev J: Zambezi Mission Record: habits and customs of the natives of Mangwe District, South Matabeleland

 

J7.5.4

Davies, C S: The Barotse, 1926

 

J7.5.5

Levyns, D S & Bulbring, H: The Barotse

 

J7.5.6

Levyns, D S: The Barotse

 

J7.5.7

Map of the Kingdom of the Barotse

 

J7.6

Northern Rhodesia - Human Geography reports, 1930s submitted to the Chief Secretary, Livingstone, for article on human geography for the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

J7.7

Other, in alphabetical order

 

J7.7.1

Ballinger, W G & M L: The British Protectorates in South Africa: should they be transferred to the Union?

 

J7.7.2

Boccassino, Renato: La Famiglia presso I Kikuyu (Universita di Roma, 1946)

 

J7.7.3

Brownlee, Charles: The Condition of the native tribes during the century preceding the introduction of the Gospel among them

 

J7.7.4

Canca, R S: A History of the origin, growth and structure of the Transkeian council systems (Thesis submitted for Degree of MA in Native Law and Administration, 1948)

 

J8

Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies Ltd

 

 

Minutes of the Board of Governors, minutes of Academic Advisory Committee, reports, programmes of research workshops, 1964-1972

 

J9

US-SA Leader Exchange Program

 

 

Correspondence, reports, 1960-1965

 

J10

Departmental programmes offered by other institutions: prospectuses and lists

 

J11

Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives

 

 

Minutes, 1931-1940

 

J12

City of Johannesburg Non-European Affairs Department: Survey of the Western Areas of Johannesburg, 1950

 

J13

Other

 

J13.1

Letter from ? Curnick, University College of Fort Hare, to Dr Jack Simons, 22.02.1961

 

J13.2

pp. 115-295 of work on urbanisation in Tropical Africa, TSS

 

J13.3

Mafeje, Archie: The Role of the bard in a contemporary African community (offprint from Journal of African Languages, vol.6(3)1967. MSS notes by Archie Mafeje on Townsmen to tribesmen by P Mayer

 

K

LANGA

 

K1

Correspondence

 

K1.1

Correspondence re Research into African Communities in the Western Cape, 1950-1962

 

 

Includes correspondence with the Nuffield Foundation (interest in support of Africans doing research work); memoranda, proposals, budgets, appointment of field worker in Langa, progress reports to the National Council for Social Research.

 

 

Also correspondence with the University of Stellenbosch, which was conducting an allied study, and minutes of the Liaison Committee.

 

K1.2

Correspondence with Archie Mafeje re research, 1960-1961

 

K1.3

Correspondence with others

 

K1.4

Comments on TSS by D Hobart-Houghton and Francis Wilson

 

K2

Interviews

 

K2.1

Interviews (conducted by Dr Crosse-Upcott) with churches, 1955-1956

 

K2.2

Interviews with sports clubs (conducted by Dr Crosse-Upcott), 1955-1956. Includes extracts from minute books of clubs

 

K2.3

Interviews with clubs (mainly music) (conducted by Dr Crosse-Upcott, 1955-1956

 

K2.4

Other interviews, including re-township affairs, tribal chiefs (conducted by Dr Crosse-Upcott), 1955-1956

 

K2.5

Notes made by Dr Crosse-Upcott and memos from MW to C-U

 

K3

Interviews and notes by Archie Mafeje

 

 

(7 folders)

 

 

Includes notes to and from MW

 

K4

Notes made by Monica Wilson

 

 

(4 folders)

 

 

Notes made by MW, with questions to ask researchers, including notes re churches, clubs and societies, demographic profiles

 

K5

Reference material

 

K5.1

 Newspaper clippings

 

K5.2

Reports, letters, etc, 1920s-1950s, including:

 

 

Native Affairs Commission

 

 

City of Cape Town

 

 

South African Institute of Race Relations

 

K6

TSS of chapters or articles on Africans in Cape Town.

 

 

Authorship unknown

 

 

Africans in Cape Town

 

 

The employment of Africans in greater Cape Town

 

 

Segregation and housing

 

K7

Social harmony and discord in an urban locationTSS

 

K8

Langa

 

 

Early drafts

 

K9

Langa.  TSS, of Langa: a study of social groups in an African township

 

L

MONICA WILSON’S WRITINGS AND TALKS

 

L1

Published papers, reprints, lectures, journals in chronological order, 1932 -1979

 

L2

Lectures

 

L2.1

Apologia: special lecture to UCT students about personal faith and anthropology.  Letter of request and notes. n.d.

 

L2.2

Lecture on ritual and symbolism to Kolbe Society, 1956.  Correspondence and notes

 

L2.3

Personality and culture: lecture to Rhodesia National Affairs Association, n.d. & to University Women’s Association, 1952

 

L3

Book reviews

 

L3.1

Review of Isaac Schapera’s Married life in an African tribe

 

L3.2

Other book reviews

 

L4

University of Cape Town: Research and publications, 1956-1958, 1959-1961, 1962-1964

 

M

MONICA WILSON:  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

M1

Association of Social Anthropologists

 

 

Minutes, notices, 1946-1972

 

 

includes African Studies Association of the UK

 

 

Australian Association of Social Anthropologists

 

M2

National Council on Social Research, 1954-1964

 

 

Correspondence, minutes, etc re MW’s work on this Council.  She served as “Co-operator” and referee for Journal for Social Research

 

M3

South African Institute of Race Relations (Cape Western Region)

 

 

Minutes, reports, 1966-1967

 

M4

Other

 

 

Black Sash (Cape Western Region), 1973

 

 

International Federation of University Women, 1974

 

 

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1973-1974

 

 

Royal Society of South Africa, 1974

 

 

South African Museum, 1974

 

N

PHOTOGRAPHS

 

N1

Photographs of Monica Wilson

 

N2

Photographs of Monica Wilson in groups

 

N3

Photographs of Godfrey Wilson

 

N4

Photographs of GW and MW and family

 

N5

Photographs of Francis and Timothy Wilson

 

N6

Photographs of Godfrey Wilson’s family

 

N7

Unidentified photographs

 

P

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS

 

P1

Personal, [1930?] – 1977

 

P2

Book reviews

 

P3

Miscellaneous

 

 

Includes: whole issues of Daily Dispatch, 15.11.1945 & 17.11.1945 and Times Literary Supplement, 06.07.1973

 

Q

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Q1

Godfrey Wilson:

 

 

New Apostolic Review, two issues, 1934 & 1935

 

 

The Christian newsletter, 1939-1941

 

Q2

Papers relating to Francis Wilson

 

 

School reports, 1945-1946

 

 

Examples of school work

 

Q3

University of Rhodesia

 

 

Principal’s report to Council, 1974

 

 

Principal’s graduation address, 1974

 

 

List of University staff

 

Q4

Reports on field trips

 

Q5

Amies, C (et al): Trachoma in the South African Bantu from SAMJ, vol 26, 26 April 1952. Reprint

 

Q6

Author unknown: TSS on vows of obedience, chastity and poverty

 

Q7

Publicity flyer re Trowell, Margaret: African arts and crafts

 

Q8

Miscellaneous

 

 

DAVID AND JESSIE HUNTER PAPERS

 

AA

PERSONAL

 

AA1

Diaries

 

AA1.1

Pocket diaries, 1890–1893; 1895; 1898–1948

 

AA1.2

Desk diary, 1901

 

AA1.3

Diaries, Feb-Jul 1882; Jul-Sep 1882; 16 Feb 1885-20 Apr 1887; 1 Feb 1888–31 Dec 1888; 7 Apr 1893–26 Jan 1894; 27 Jan 1894–15 May 1894 & 15 Jan 1896–21 Nov 1896; 17 Dec 1896–28 Dec 1897; 3 Jan 1917–22 Apr 1917

 

AA1.4 

Travel diaries

 

 

Norway, 1871

 

 

Cruise of the yacht “Osprey”, 1889

 

 

Victoria Falls, 1904

 

AA2

Accounts of travels

 

 

Some recollections of a trip round the world (re trip of 1881)

 

 

Some recollections of a trip round the world, part II

 

 

A trip to Norway

 

 

Some recollections of Ceylon

 

 

With the first through passenger train from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls

 

AA3

Passport

 

AA4

Notebooks

 

 

Notebooks and record of expenses, 1882

 

 

Record of expenditure, 1946

 

AA5

Address book (addresses written in addressees’ own handwritings)

 

AA6

Notebook containing notes of thoughts on spiritual matters

 

AA7

Sketchbook and loose sketches by DAH (some oversize)

 

AA8

School certificates from Glascow Academy, 1878-1880

 

AA9

Estimates of DA Hunter’s character from specimen of handwriting, 1895

 

AA10

Agreement of employment of David Hunter in Croggon & Co, Ltd, London, 1887

 

 

Letter from J Balfour of Croggon & Co to DAH, 20.10.1892

 

AA11

Copy of minutes relating to the ordination to the eldership of Mr David Alexander Hunter, 1895

 

AA12

Poem by DAH: My wish for you

 

AA13

Documents relating to the death of William Hunter, 1890 (father of DAH)

 

 

List of household goods inherited by DAH from estate of Wm Hunter, n.d.

 

 

Copy of will of William Hunter, with covering letter from [RH?] Hunter, 10.03.1890 and minute of agreement between W Hunter, J Barr, J Hunter, 1884, to continue as co-partners in business of warehousemen in Glasgow

 

 

Statement showing estate of William Hunter, 1891

 

 

Scheme of possible divisions of estate

 

AA14

Illustrated address to DAH from “the children at Carr Bridge”, Aug 1900

 

AA15

Papers relating to DAH’s retirement and of his 50 years’ service at Lovedale

 

AA16

Illuminated address presented to DAH, 24.11.1938, on the occasion of his retirement.  From “Lovedale Governing Body, Victoria Hospital Board and many friends”.  (oversize)

 

AA17

Obituaries of David A Hunter, 1949

 

AA18

Correspondence of Jessie Hunter in connection with her mother’s will, 1947-1948.

 

AA19

Notice of death of Miss M B MacGregor

 

AA20

Will of Jessie Hunter, 1938

 

AA21

Hunter family papers

 

AA22

Newspaper cuttings of announcement of marriage of Monica and Godfrey Wilson, 1935, and of birth of Francis Wilson, 1939

 

AA23

Rough notes: Jessie Hunter

 

AA24

Religious tracts; notes for sermons by DAH, etc

 

AA25

Pouch containing letter to DAH from [SHB?], contains prescription, n.d.

 

BB

CORRESPONDENCE

 

BB1

Letter books of David Hunter, 1886-Feb 1903; Feb 1897-Mar 1913

2

BB2

Letters from David Hunter to Jessie Hunter, 1900–1930

7

BB3

Letters from Jessie Hunter to David Hunter, 1900–1940 & some undated

346

BB4

David Hunter: letters of introduction, 1881; 1885; 1893

4

BB5

Letters from James Stewart to David Hunter, 1893–1902

8

BB6

David Hunter’s correspondence, 1887–1947

 

BB7

Letters to Jessie Hunter from May Hunter, 1946–1947

3

BB8

Letters to Jessie Hunter from George MacGregor, 1946–1948

15

BB9

Letters to Jessie Hunter from Mary K (Mrs JW MacGregor), 1935–1948

19

BB10

Letters to Jessie Hunter from Minnie [South?], 1919, 1946

5

BB11

Letters to Jessie Hunter in chronological order, 1922, 1942, 1946–1948

 

BB12

Letters of sympathy to Jessie Hunter and Monica Wilson on the death of David Hunter, 1949

 

CC

ACCOUNTS AND FINANCIAL PAPERS

 

CC1

Standard Bank of S A, Ltd Papers relating to Jessie Hunter’s account: statements, deposit slips, cheque book stubs, etc, 1934–1949

 

CC2

Jessie Hunter’s investments

 

CC2.1

British Kaffrarian Savings Bank Society: annual reports, 1946–1947

 

CC2.2

South Witbank Coal Mines, Ltd

 

 

Report of Directors, 1947

 

 

Letter to Jessie Hunter, 29.02.1948

 

 

Annual General Meeting, Proceedings, 1948

 

CC2.3

The Griqualand West Board of Executors, Trust and Agency Co, Ltd Correspondence and statement, 1948

 

CC3

Jessie Hunter: invoices, receipts, etc, 1932–1949

 

CC4

Miscellaneous, including information from retailers

 

DD

LOVEDALE AND MISSIONARY WORK

 

DD1

David Hunter’s writings on Lovedale and mission work

 

DD1.1

Report on tour of mission stations in South Africa, TSS, 10.10.1895

 

DD1.2

Report on a day’s activities at Lovedale, TSS, with covering letter from Dr James Stewart, 19.03.1898

 

DD1.3

Two rounds of the clock at Lovedale, offprint

 

DD1.4

Recollections of a meeting of the Lovedale Literary Society

 

DD1.5

Report (or letter) on DAH’s meeting with the Governor and others about the supply of rifles and ammunition to the towns of Alice and Fort Beaufort, 23.12.1899

 

DD1.6

The South African Native: His future training: new missionary policy wanted. Cutting from The Glascow Herald, 20.04.1922

 

DD1.7

The Story of the Lovedale Hospital, MSS

 

DD1.8

The Mission field: the story of Lovedale II, TSS

 

DD2

Various Lovedale papers

 

DD2.1

Appeal for funds for the Lovedale Extension Fund, 1920

 

DD2.2

Are we limited service Christians?, reprint from The Christian express, Lovedale

 

DD2.3

Minutes of a meeting of the Lovedale Governing Council, 9 & 10.11.1938

 

DD2.4

Extract from minutes of the Lovedale Governing Council, 06.11.1941, recording a donation by DAH of £1500 toward the establishment of a scheme for the after-care of crippled children

 

DD2.5

Photocopies of three letters disovered at Victoria Hospital and sent to Monica Wilson by Brian Randles of the Kaffrarian Museum, King William’s Town, 1976

 

DD3

United Free Church of Scotland/ Church of Scotland

 

DD3.1

Free Church of Scotland: minutes of the Foreign Missions Committee, 06.06.1894, and letters from G Smith (Secretary) to DAH, 1894-1895

 

DD3.2

United Free Church of Scotland: minutes of the Foreign Missions Committee, 17.03.1914, 20.09.1927, 15.11.1927

 

DD3.3

The Church of Scotland: minutes of the SA Mission Council, 24-26.04.1939

 

DD3.4

The Church and the missionary, newspaper cutting from The Presbyterian, 10.02.1893

 

DD3.5

Report on conference of British students, Ripon, Aug 1898

 

DD3.6

The Free Church of Scotland monthly, Dec 1895

 

DD3.7

The Record of the Home and Foreign mission work of the United Free Church of Scotland, Oct 1921 and Mar 1922

 

DD3.8

Report on the first meeting of the International Missionary Council, Lake Mohonk, N.Y., 30 Sep-6 Oct 1921

 

DD4

Education and teaching of crafts

 

DD4.1

Writings by DAH on education

 

DD4.1.1

Can SA get a move on? A novel suggestion. TSS

 

DD4.1.2

Memorandum of Native education, n.d. TSS

 

DD4.1.3

Homecrafts and village industries for rural Natives. TSS

 

DD4.1.4

Memorandum of Native industries. TSS

 

DD4.1.5

Bantu industries. Reprint from South African Journal of Science, 1921

 

DD4.2

Cutting from Life of faith, 26.04.1922

 

DD4.3

Letter from WB Little, Director of Rural Industries Bureau, 20.11.1929. to HN Hobart Houghton. Re weaving project proposed by HH

 

DD4.4

Union of S A. Board of Trade and Industries: Report No.219: Establishment of industries in Native territories, 1936

 

DD4.5

Booklets on crafts and industries (2)

 

DD5

Boys’ Brigade

 

 

Miscellaneous papers relating to the Boys’ Brigade, 1901–1937

 

DD6

South African Outlook

 

 

Three copies, 01.08.1931, 01.05.1933, 01.12.1938

 

EE

PHOTOGRAPHS

 

EE1

Photograph album dated 1889–[1890s?].  Contains English and Scottish scenes, Hunter family.  Last photographs possibly of Lovedale.

 

EE2 – EE3

Family photograph albums

 

EE4

Photograph album containing photographs of Southern Rhodesia: Zambezi River, Victoria Falls, Rhodes’ grave in the Matopo Hills

 

EE5 – EE14 

Loose photographs

 

EE5

Portraits of David Hunter and Jessie Hunter (2 folders)

 

EE6

Photographs of David and Jessie Hunter and children

 

EE7

Photographs sent by Monica Hunter (Wilson) to her parents, mostly of university in England (annotated by Monica)

 

EE8

Photographs of Monica and family

 

EE9

Single portraits, unidentified

 

EE10

Groups, unidentified

 

EE11

Photographs of Lovedale and Alice

 

EE12

Photographs of African scenes

 

EE13

Photographs of places and landscapes, unidentified

 

EE14

Packets of assorted photographs, mostly unidentified

 

FF

MISCELLANEOUS

 

FF1

New Testament and two hymnbooks

 

FF2

Wedding programme for JB White and [?], 28.04.1927

 

FF3

Impey, Lieut EBH: An Airman’s prayer on taking off [poem], 1944.  TSS

 

FF4

Morse code

 

FF5

Maps

 

FF5.1

Ordnance survey maps of regions in Britain (6)

 

FF5.2

Topographic maps of Lake Geneva (2)

 

FF5.3

Cape Government Railways: map of the routes to the Goldfields, n.d.

 

FF6

Siege views of Mafeking, from the original photographs by EJ Rose, Oct 1899 – May 1899

 

FF7

Postcards

 

FF8

Newspapers

 

FF8.1

The Scotsman, 31.10.1900

 

FF8.2

The Alice Times, 14.02.1935

 

FF8.3

The Clarion, 17.05.1947

 

FF9

The Students’ Christian Association of S A, 1896-1936

 

FF10

Rules for parlour games

 

FF11

Radio log and list of radio stations

 

FF12

Unused stationery

 

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