South Africa,1804

Scope and Content

includes letters from:

Captain L Alberti [Johann Christoph Ludwig Alberti], Fort Frederick [later Port Elizabeth] - African service to farmers; cattle theft

Jan Willem Janssens (governor general), Castle of Good Hope - to Dr Johannes Vanderkemp, Bethelsdorp

John Kicherer, The Hague and Madeira

Dr Johannes Vanderkemp, Bethelsdorp - copy of letter to governor general confirming functions of missionaries; annual report; suggests LMS put Bethelsdorp under South African Society until peace established; annual report

W Alberti, Algoa Bay

joint letter from Abraham Albrecht, Christian Albrecht and J G Mathis [Mathys], Rotterdam

chemist, Algoa Bay

J Echardt, Cape of Good Hope

William Read, Cape of Good Hope

joint letter to Netherlands Missionary Society from Abraham Albrecht, Christian Albrecht and John Seidenfaden, Texel Roads

enquiries made of sloop Penguin with replies- beginning with shipment of stores promised by Governor Dundas [Francis Dundas, acting Cape governor (1798 - 1799 and 1801 - 1803)]

Access Information

Open

Other Finding Aids

Detailed lists for incoming correspondence from Southern Africa, 1797-1899 (lists E6 & E7), are available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. Includes detailed precis of letters up to 1866.

Archivist's Note

Catalogued