BC
285
Manuscripts & Archives
University of Cape Town Libraries
Donation
to the University of Cape Town Libraries from Mrs. M. Earle, Waterside,
Peninsula Road, Zeekoevlei, Cape, November, 1969.
1.1
Three
newspaper clippings about Nathaniel Isaacs, a cousin of Saul Solomon and
Henry Solomon.
Entitled
"In the days of Chaka, diary revelations". Cuttings from the
Natal Mercury.- 7.7.1927.
Nathaniel
Isaacs was in Natal in the 1820's and these cuttings are a resume of his
published diary.
1.2
TSS.
copy of a letter of condolence from Saul Solomon to the widow of Prof.
John Murray of Stellenbosch on his death, written from Clarensville, Sea
Point, 28.XII.1882. lp.
1.3
Rev.
Dr. James Cameron : In Memoriam - Alfred Lord Tennyson. Address in New
Church, Sea Point, 9.X.1892. Printed in Cape Town by Murry and St. Leger,
1892. 9pp.
Dr.
Cameron married Ellen Solomon, a daughter of Henry Solomon (and a sister
of Mrs. John Brown). On this copy he has written "For my dear Ray,
17.X.1892. J.C.", and on a slip tipped in inside the cover: Ray
Brown, from a very old friend of her mother's. 17.VIII.1890". Clearly
the latter was written on another occasion before publication of this
booklet and later inserted in it.
1.4
Xerox
copy (made from handwritten original lent by Mrs. Earle) of Mrs. Mary
Brown's memories of her Father, Henry Solomon, and of her childhood at Sea
Point. Written in Burnley, England, at the time of his death, aged 85, in
1900. 21pp.
2.
Brown,
Mrs. Mary (nee Solomon)
2.1
Tapestries,
a jumble of memories. TSS. 30pp.
2.2
The
old Cape Peninsula - some remarks on the old Colony, written for the
Durban N.H.R.U. in July 1908. TSS. llpp.
2.3
A
day at Madeira, written when aged 28 years, on a voyage to England to meet
the relatives of Dr. John Brown. Published in : Cape Monthly Magazine,
September 1874 : pp.158-163
2.4
Brown,
Mrs. Mary. Memories of a friendship - Olive Schreiner and Mary Brown. TSS.
25pp. (TSS. of chapter published as an appendix in the "A life of
Mrs. John Brown", by Angela James and Nina Hills).
2.5
Second
copy in folder:
Second
copy in TSS. entitled "Memories of my friendship with Olive
Schreiner", by Mary Brown (Mrs. John Brown) - "written for my
grandchildren". 32pp.
Note
on cover states : "Much more detailed than the centenary pamphlet
published for the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund 1955 (which was taken
from the published life of Mrs. John Brown)".
2.6
Pamphlet
: Olive Schreiner, memories of a friendship by Mrs. John Brown. Proceeds
to the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund. Printed in 1955, but originally
written in 1823.
2.7
Brown,
Mrs. Mary. The joys of cycling. Article in Manchester Guardian, August
1895. Newspaper cutting with note on the back by her daughter, Mrs. R.E.
Dick : "For writing this article my Mother, Mary Brown, was paid
11.1.0, with which she bought some real Honiton lace. She was criticised
in the Burnley papers for riding a bicycle on Sunday and "slipping
the leash of conventionality and orthodoxy:'
2.8
James,
Angela and Hills, Nina. A life of Mrs. John Brown, 18471935, with an
account of her social work in Lancashire and South Africa, of her memories
of Lancashire folk and of her friendship with Olive Schreiner. TSS. of
book published. 237pp.
2.9
Exercise
book into which many press cuttings have been pasted containing reviews of
the Life of Mrs. John Brown in 1937/38.
Also
some cuttings re the Solomon family later in the book.
At
the back of the book are handwritten extracts from letters about Mrs. John
Brown and about the biography.
2.10
Purchased:
2
typescript copies of a paper on the Solomon Family, written by Mrs. L.M.
Earle.
2.11
Brown,
Dr. and Mrs. John : Trip to the U.S.A. and Canada in 1884 (for the British
Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Canada). Published
as newspaper articles entitled Letters about a summer holiday in the
"Far West". Newspaper cuttings, probably from the Cape Argus.
12pp.
2.12
Address
to Dr. John Brown on his departure from Fraserburg to go back to Scotland
for further studying, dated at Fraserburg, 17th April 1876 and signed by
41 inhabitants.
Signed
inter alia by members of the Divisional Council, justices of the peace,
field cornets, the magistrate, the D.R.C. predikant, the town clerk, etc.
The signatures include two of the brothers-inlaw of Olive Schreiner,
vis. J. Findlay and R.C. Hemming. The latter in 1890 became the first
librarian of the Johannesburg Public Library.
2.13
Photograph
of Dr. John Brown, M.D., in Cape Town in 1910, when he had retired to live
in South Africa.
2.14.
Photograph
of Indian Cottage, Wynberg, the home of Rev. J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. and
family, about 1850. He became the first professor of Botany in the South
African College in the 1860's and was the father of Dr John Brown, M.D.
(missing)
2.15
Envelope
with two cuttings and three photographs of Capt. John Croumbie Brown, son
of Prof. Croumbie Brown and known as Capt. "Eternity" Brown;
also a pamphlet "The Mercy Ship", written by Capt. J.C. Brown.
2.16.
TSS.
entitled "Settlers of Southwell", extract from Grocott's Daily
Mail, 11.7.1967
About
the Southey, Hart and Brown families. lp.
3.1
Bible
which belonged to Mrs. Hugo Naude (nee Sheila Brown, generally known as
"Julie").
Dated
Burnley, Christmas 1891 and rebound Christmas 1899.
Many
holograph notes on blank pages towards the back. Containing a glossary,
index and concordance at the end.
3.2
Scrap
album which belonged to Mrs. Rachel Dick (nee Brown) containing verses,
quotations and sketches, including the graduation of Dr. John Brown,
23.4.1863; a reservation card on the Cape Government Railways from Cape
Town to Bloemfontein, June 1898; postcard from Olive Schreiner to
"Ray Brown", from Hanover, 24.9.1900, and letter-card from Olive
Schreiner to her from Paddington, 31.5.1893, and one envelope addressed by
Olive Schreiner; a few valentines; programme of the funeral of Queen
Victoria, 2.2.1901 and in memoriam card to Queen Victoria.
At
the end is a slip pasted in the handwriting of Henry Solomon, "Sea
Point, February 8, 1887" (her grandfather).
Album
given her by her teacher in a Dame School, October 1885.
4.
Dick,
Mary G. (later Mrs. Earle). The establishment of a mission, being the work
of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign missions among the
Zulus of South Eastern Natal, 1834-1860. (Thesis for M.A. in History,
Columbia University, New York, 1933. Original corrected copy). about 102
leaves. + correspondence.
5.1
Cutting
from the Natal Mercury about the Regiment going on active service in
September 1899, when Col. Dick was the Officer Commanding; and a copy of
the plaque concerning Lieut.Col. James Dick in the Old Fort, Durban.
5.2
TSS.
entitled "The early days and the Old Fort, Durban". 13pp.
5.3
TSS.
Copy of letter from prisoners in the Congella Camp, to Col. Sir Harry
Smith, 27.5.1842; and letter from the same to Commdt.Gen. A.W. Pretorius,
from the "Tronk", 7.6.1942.
5.4
Cutting
"Beautiful Durban, the old pioneers' road", from Natal Mercury,
26.8.1925.
5.5
The
Natal Witness of 11th January 1850
Facsimile
copy, published as supplement to The-Natal Witness on 20th August 1900
(Note accompanying it states : Presented by Robina Bryce Earle - This copy
of the Natal Witness was sent to Scotland by my uncle John Roxburgh of
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, who went out from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1875, to
live in South Africa". Written from Keswick Road, London, 8.9.1964).
5.6
Set
of official stamps for use by the Durban Light Infantry in 1905. All Natal
stamps, overprinted "official" for ld., 2d.,3d.i6d., 1/-and 2
Union official stamps of 1910.
6.1
Orpen,
Elsie Pauline :
The
Gardens area in Cape Town in the 1850's. TSS. 2,'-app. Reminiscences of
life in Cape Town in the 1850's.
Also
: The original handwritten original of the above, addressed to Mrs. Mary
Brown and signed by E.S. Orpen. On notepaper, 9pp.
Material
dispersed:
BA
968.36 OLD
70/1961
The
Old Fort, Durban. Illustrated. Published by the Durban Light Infantry Comrades'
Association, 1932.
BA
968.36 OLD
70/1962
The
Old Fort at Durban, published for the South African National Society, by
P. Davis and Sons, Durban, 1910. 2pp. illus.
Parcel
of 25 pamphlets.
Cutting
of scene at market on Greenmarket Square in the 1840's or 1850's. From
Cape Argus, 19.4.1967.
Volume
of handcopied-songs which belonged to Mrs. John Brown and contains the
inscription "Mary Solomon, Sea Point, 7.XII.1866" and "Mary
Solomon, Sea Point Cottage, 3.111.1869". That is, she had copied
these songs in her youth and the whole volume is in her hand. Contains
both music and words.
Songs
are :
(a)
Rest for the weary;
(b)
0 Swallow, Swallor (from The Princess); (c) Will you love me then as now?
(d)
Glory Hallelujah!
(e)
Thou art so near and yet so far (Alex.Reichardt); (f) The Officers'
funeral, by Hon. Mrs. Norton;
(g)
The fairy bells;
(h)
Break, break, break - words by Tennyson, composed by John Blockley;
(i)
Castles in the air;
(j)
Janet's choice, by Claribel; (k) The blue ribbon, by Claribel; (1)
Exercises on the scale;
(m)
The liquid gem, words by J. Streaks, music by W.T. Wrighton;
(n)
0 ye tears ! ye tears (Frans Abt);
(o)
The last rose of summer (T. Orsten) from Fantasie brilliante on Flotow's
opera, of "Martha";
(p)
T'is the last rose of summer, Moore's melody; arr. by Reinhardt, air
"The groves of Blowey"; (q) The Minstrel Boy (Moore's Irish
melodies);
(r)
The meeting of the waters (Moore's Irish melodies); (s) Fading away (Anne
Fricker);
(t)
Evening hymn for the young; (u) Exercises
The
words of some of the later songs have been written on slips of paper which
have been tipped in.
6
maps : of Cape Town, South Africa and Western Europe.
Cape
Argus centenary supplement, 1857-1957.