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• Poems

  Doug Cornell (1917-1988), journalist by profession, occupied a senior position in the Bureau of Information during World War II, engaged in propaganda and communications work through all media. He was accredited to the Royal Party throughout the 1947 Royal Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. Among his writings is a folder of poems.
• Songs and poems

  Frederick C Cornell (1867-1921), soldier, prospector, author, traveller and journalist. His book, “The Glamour of Prospecting”, gives accounts of his various prospecting trips. Discovered Augrabies Falls or King George Falls and penetrated into the heart of the Kalahari. Songs and poems including for South African soldiers.
• Poetry

  Tania van Zijl (Mrs Tania Middleniss), born 1908, wrote poems, short stories and sketched.
• Poems

  Deane Anderson was a lecturer in the UCT School of Architecture from 1947 to 1971. He sketched, wrote art critiques, poems and articles. A folder in the collection contains his poems, 1932-1971.
• Poetry

  Sheila Dederick (1922-1980), writer. Poetry.
• Poetry

  Dederick, Robert St Clair (1918-1983), legal advisor, poet, broadcaster, sports reporter. The collection contains his complete poems (tyescript) as well as published poems.
• Poems

  Charles Cowen (1828-1914). Journalist, poet and editor, owner of the Cape Town weekly paper, Zingari.
• Poems

  Sydney Vernon Petersen (1914-1987). Poet and educationist. Classified as Coloured, his first published volume of poetry contains a denouncement of racism, "the curse of a dark skin". Seven original manuscripts of his poems.
• Poems

  Muriel Alexander (1884-1975). Small number of her poems.
• Poems

  Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (also known as Boerneef) (1897-1967) was a South African writer, poet, lexicographer and academic. MS poems published in 1962 as "Mallemole", Cape Town, Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk.
• Poems

  Adèle Wollheim Naudé (1910-1981), Cape Town Afrikaans poet and writer of historical works. A small number of newspaper clippings of her poems in the period indicated.
• Poems

  Thelma Tyfield was headmistress of the Good Hope Seminary, Cape Town. Collection incl. the TSS of 90 poems from which were selected those published in Time Prized. Also notes and drafts.
• Pullen Song
• Poems

  Theodore Herman van Beek. Born in South Africa, he wrote nostalgic poetry on his boyhood. The anthology dated 1907 is his first published work. He went to study in Edinburgh in 1908 and served in the Royal Artillery in WWI. He was a noted war poet. His son published an anthology of his poems in a limited edition in 1986 entitled The Day of Love also containng biographical details.
• Albums of verse and illustrations

  WB Philip, probably descendant of missionary Dr John Philip (1775-1851), strong proponent of rights of indigenous people in the Cape. Two albums of religious and poetic verses and illustrations.
• Ballade van die eensame seeman

  I D du Plessis (1900-1981), prominent poet, playwright, lecturer and government official. While published by A A Balkema in 1949 and 1999, the manuscript collection includes variations; two letters by I D du Plessis are also included.
• //Xam Bushman folklore notebooks

  Dr WHI Bleek (1827-1875), pioneer of the study of African Linguistics and ethnology. Lucy Catherine Lloyd (1834-1914), pioneering linguist and folklorist.
• Arabesk anthology and other poems

  Hendrik Adolph Mulder (1906-1949). Pseudonym as poet: Willem Hessels. "Arabesk", original MS written under pseudonym W Hessels with music by Rosa SC Nepgen; 12 notebooks of poems in MSS, also reprints of poems and other writings. Press cuttings of poems and articles (five envelopes) published in Die Volkstem, Die Suiderstem and Die Huisgenoot.
• Poems

  Leipoldt, Christian Frederic Louis (1880-1947), poet, playwright, journalist, chef, botanist and doctor. Published and unpublished poems, forming part of a larger manuscript collection.
• Old Roads End anthology and other unpublished poems

  Francis Duncan Sinclair (1923-1961). The poems were written between the poems in “Nine Altars” (published 1943) and the publication of “Cold Veld” (1945), i.e., they were probably written between 1943-1945. Most were written when the author was attached to the R.A.F. and while stationed in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• Manuscript poems by prominent Afrikaans poets

  Autographed manuscript poems by various prominent Afrikaans authors including Elizabeth Eybers, CM van den Heever, A G Visser, and I D du Plessis.
• Rorkes Drift and other verses

  Albert Brodrick,19th century poet, thought to have resided in Pretoria. Author of published poetry. The manuscript poems seem dated when resident in London but relate at least in part to South Africa.
• Three poems: "Om die portret te skilder van 'n Voël", "Vrye Wyl", "Eerste Wag", translated by Uys Krige from the work of Jacques Prévert.

  Uys Krige (1910-1987), writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays in Afrikaans and English. Krige was hostile to Afrikaner nationalism and White Supremacism, and was a mentor to young Afrikaner intellectuals who convinced them to join the internal opposition to Apartheid. Afrikaans translations of thre poems by Jacques Prevert.
• Poems

  Wilhelm Knobel (1935-1974). Two posthumous compilations of the poetry of Wilhelm Knobel.
• Poems

  JF van Tonder. Two loosely bound volumes of poems.