• Pepysian Perceptions of the Cape 1798–1828; Selections from the Western Cape Diaries of Samuel Eusebius Hudson
    Edited by Edward Hudson
    Volume:
    III - 6 (2024)
    Print Status:
    In Print and eBook will be available shortly
    Samuel Eusebius Hudson : portrait sketched by Lady Anne Barnard in 1797 This is the first time that substantial selections from the voluminous diaries of Samuel Eusebius Hudson (1764–1828) have been published. Written by an early British settler of humble social origin but of uncommon education, they are Pepysian in quantity and quality, rich in perceptions, and the more valuable for...
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  • The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800; Vol. II
    Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.
    Volume:
    II-30 (1999)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    This second volume of the Cape diaries, dealing with 1800, further develop this rich and entertaining account of life at the Cape in the early years of British rule. Politically the Diaries lay bare the dynamics of the conflicts among senior office-holders, not only in the civil administration, but also in and between the army and navy. Lady Anne's independence...
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  • The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800; Vol. I
    Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.
    Volume:
    II-29 (1998)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    The Cape Diaries are the private and unrevised records on which Lady Anne based her Journals. Consequently they express Lady Anne's uncensored views on a wide variety of topics, social and political. The diaries are not only illuminating but also vastly entertaining because of her brilliant command of language and the pleasure she took in the act of writing itself....
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  • The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797-1798
    Edited by A.M. Lewin Robinson with Margaret Lenta and Dorothy Driver
    Volume:
    II-24 (1993)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    Lady Anne's journals were revised from her original diaries and produced for the interest of her immediate family and friends. They were never intended for publication. However, they are invaluable in the light which they cast on 'the interesting domestic particulars of life in Cape Town', dealing with matters which male writers ignored. In addition, her place in society, as...
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  • William Somerville's narrative of his journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoe 1799-1802
    Introduction and notes by Edna and Frank Bradlow
    Volume:
    II-10 (1979)
    Print Status:
    Out of print
    William Somerville, an Edinburgh doctor, accompanied the invading forces of Major-General Craig when the British took the Cape in 1795. He remained at the Cape for some years, accompanying Major-General Dundas to the eastern districts during the height of conflict on the frontier. Subsequently he accompanied an expedition to the Orange River. On both occasions he recorded the cultures...
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  • Reize in de Binnen-Landen van Zuid-Africa. Gedaan in den Jaare 1803 door W.B.E. Paravicini di Capelli, Kapitein Aide de Camp, by den Gouverneur van de Caap de Goede Hoop
    Uitgegee en toegelig met inleiding, voetnote, sketskaarte en verkorte weergawe in Engels deur W.J. de Kock
    Volume:
    I-46 (1965)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    Paravicini di Capelli was an artillery-captain at the time of the Batavian Republic and aide-de-camp of the Cape governor, General Jan Willem Janssens. He travelled with the governor into the interior, keeping an official journal as well as his own, and was active in preparations of the Cape against attack by the British, travelling widely during this period. In 1804...
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  • Die Joernaal van Dirk Gysbert van Reenen, 1803
    Uitgegee deur wyle prof. dr. W. Blommaert en prof. J.A. Wiid. With an English translation by J.L.M. Franken and Ian M. Murray
    Volume:
    I-18 (1937)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint available)
    This is an account of a journey in to the Eastern Cape undertaken by the Governor of the Cape, J.W. Janssens and Capt Paravicini de Capelli, recorded by D.G. van Reenen. Van Reenen was a prominent burger at the Cape, a winemaker, reputed to make the best wine in the Cape, and he held the wine and meat contracts...
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  • De Mist, J.A. - Memorandum containing recommendations for the form and administration of government at the Cape of Good Hope, 1802
    Original Dutch text with an English version by M.K. Jeffreys and Preface by S.F.N. Gie
    Volume:
    I-3 (1920)
    Print Status:
    Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)
    This report by De Mist, prepared and completed in January 1802 in Amsterdam, recommends changes to be made to the government of the Cape during the critical years between the two British occupations. It also ranges widely over social, economic and political conditions of the Cape at the end of the 18th century.
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