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Colour postcard depicting Rhodes as a mouse in a cage labelled Kimberley, being watched by the Afrikaaner General Cronje in the guise of a cat; published in Berlin by Eysler & Co., and posted in Vienna, 6th February 1900.

Letters and telegrams received, arranged by the original subject headings as follows: Administrators [Rhodesia], 1897-1902 Cape Colony, 1890-1900 Charter (Matabeleland & Mashonaland), 1889-1896 - Charter referring to the British South Africa Company Charter (Home Board), 1897-1902 Charter (Cape), 1898-1901 Cold storage, 1899-1902 - relating to Rhodess attempts to break Combrinck and Cos meat monopoly by erecting a cold store at Cape Town, importing meat from Australia, etc. De Beers, 1890-1902 Farms, 1897-1901 Finance, 1888-1899 Goldfields, 1890-1902 Hawkesley, 1897-1908 - B.F. Hawkesley was solicitor to Rhodes and to the British South Africa Company Immigration, 1902 - relating to a scheme for the northwards immigration of women sponsored by Lady Hely-Hutchinson and the South African Immigration Association Inyanga, 1896-1901 - relating to Inyanga farms, Rhodesia McDonald, 1897-1902 - J.G. McDonald handled Rhodess farming and other interests in the territory of the Ndebele, managed De Beers Rhodesian farms, and was employed by Goldfields and by the Consolidated Exploration and Development Co. Michell, 1897-1902 - Sir Lewis Michell was Rhodess friend and banker Miscellaneous, 1890-1902 Ngami trek, 1897-1902 - relating to an attempt by Rhodes to settle Boers in the Ghanzi and Lake Ngami areas of the Bechuanaland protectorate, 1898 Northern Rhodesia, 1897-1901 Rhodesian goldreefs, 1898-1902 Rhodesian railways, 1897-1901 Syfret, 1897-1902 - Syfret handled various businesses for Rhodes, including fruit farms, cold storage, the dynamite and brick-making subsidiaries, the Rhodesian enterprises managed by McDonald, the Groote Schuur and Muizenberg properties and other Cape investments Transcontinental telegraph, 1897-1902 Transvaal, 1900-1902 Wernher, Beit & Co, 1890-1901 - a Kimberley diamond mining firm; Alfred Beit was also a life governor in De Beers and had connections with the Jameson raid Delagoa Bay, 1892-1895 - relating to the attempted purchase of Delagoa Bay (in present Mozambique) from the Portuguese Papers saved from the Groote Schuur fire, 1875-1896 Personal, mainly political and business, 1888-1902 Personal (General biographical material), 1884-1902

Letter books, 1897-1902; telegrams, 1893-1903; index, including for collection MSS. Afr. s. 228).

Collection of newspaper cuttings about Cecil Rhodes, 1881-1905, compiled by Simmonds.

Typescript compiled by Cyril B. Harris, entitledMy association with Cecil Rhodes and stories of the siege of Kimberley, as told on 16th April 1951 by W.D. Fynn, Superintendent of Farms for De Beers for 33 years. Includes a photograph of Rhodes at the site where he was later buried (Matopo Hills, Rhodesia) and another of a portrait of Rhodes, two letters from Ernst Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, 1951, a letter from Rhodes about sheep and angoras, 1899, and photographs of Rhodes memorabilia.

Watercolour portrait of Cecil Rhodes by Cecil Cutler Pen and ink cartoon by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, Mr. Rhodes will not be interviewed Photograph album of 90 views of South African importance presented by the Photographic Club of Cape Town, 1898 Photograph album of 24 views of Groote Schuur and its environs, 1898 Two photograph albums containing a collection of 147 prints of Ladysmith, during and after the siege, relating mainly to Frank Rhodes, 1899-1900 Two photograph albums containing 235 Rhodes family and social photographs taken in South Africa and Britain, 1895-1910

Undated first draft of The life of Jamesonby Ian Duncan Colvin (London, E. Arnold and co., 1922) Manuscript of projected book by Charles Cowen on Rhodes, with related papers, 1874-1912 Papers of Gordon Le Sueur, comprising miscellaneous letters and papers relating to Rhodes, and draft material for a biography, 1897-1907 Papers of E.A. Maund, comprising reminiscences of Rhodes, [1923-1929], with related enclosures, [1885-1891] and letters from Maund to the Rhodes Trust Papers of Sir Lewis Michell, comprising letters and miscellaneous papers relating to Rhodes, including items formerly part of the Rhodes Papers (MSS. Afr. s. 228), 1869-1907 Papers relating to the Princess Radziwill, 1899-1902 Books associated with Rhodes, and related papers, 1864-1949 Correspondence about papers relating to Rhodes in the possession of his contemporaries, 1955-1961