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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

Enthält u.a.: De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited. Twentythird annual report for the year ending 30th June, 1911.

sepia-Fotografie (sehr schlechter Zustand); Gruppenbild der Arbeiter

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.