Reference code
ZA UCT BC285_2
Title
Brown, Mrs. Mary (nee Solomon)
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2.1 Tapestries, a jumble of memories. TSS. 30pp.
2.2 The old Cape Peninsula - some remarks on the old Colony, written for the Durban N.H.R.U. in July 1908. TSS. llpp.
2.3 A day at Madeira, written when aged 28 years, on a voyage to England to meet the relatives of Dr. John Brown. Published in : Cape Monthly Magazine, September 1874 : pp.158-163
2.4 Brown, Mrs. Mary. Memories of a friendship - Olive Schreiner and Mary Brown. TSS. 25pp. (TSS. of chapter published as an appendix in the "A life of Mrs. John Brown", by Angela James and Nina Hills).
2.5 Second copy in folder:
Second copy in TSS. entitled "Memories of my friendship with Olive Schreiner", by Mary Brown (Mrs. John Brown) - "written for my grandchildren". 32pp.
Note on cover states : "Much more detailed than the centenary pamphlet published for the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund 1955 (which was taken from the published life of Mrs. John Brown)".
2.6 Pamphlet : Olive Schreiner, memories of a friendship by Mrs. John Brown. Proceeds to the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund. Printed in 1955, but originally written in 1823.
2.7 Brown, Mrs. Mary. The joys of cycling. Article in Manchester Guardian, August 1895. Newspaper cutting with note on the back by her daughter, Mrs. R.E. Dick : "For writing this article my Mother, Mary Brown, was paid 11.1.0, with which she bought some real Honiton lace. She was criticised in the Burnley papers for riding a bicycle on Sunday and "slipping the leash of conventionality and orthodoxy:'
2.8 James, Angela and Hills, Nina. A life of Mrs. John Brown, 1847¬1935, with an account of her social work in Lancashire and South Africa, of her memories of Lancashire folk and of her friendship with Olive Schreiner. TSS. of book published. 237pp.
2.9 Exercise book into which many press cuttings have been pasted containing reviews of the Life of Mrs. John Brown in 1937/38.
Also some cuttings re the Solomon family later in the book.
At the back of the book are handwritten extracts from letters about Mrs. John Brown and about the biography.
2.10 Purchased:
2 typescript copies of a paper on the Solomon Family, written by Mrs. L.M. Earle.
2.11 Brown, Dr. and Mrs. John : Trip to the U.S.A. and Canada in 1884 (for the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Canada). Published as newspaper articles entitled Letters about a summer holiday in the "Far West". Newspaper cuttings, probably from the Cape Argus. 12pp.
2.12 Address to Dr. John Brown on his departure from Fraserburg to go back to Scotland for further studying, dated at Fraserburg, 17th April 1876 and signed by 41 inhabitants.
Signed inter alia by members of the Divisional Council, justices of the peace, field cornets, the magistrate, the D.R.C. predikant, the town clerk, etc. The signatures include two of the brothers-in¬law of Olive Schreiner, vis. J. Findlay and R.C. Hemming. The latter in 1890 became the first librarian of the Johannesburg Public Library.
2.13 Photograph of Dr. John Brown, M.D., in Cape Town in 1910, when he had retired to live in South Africa.
2.14. Photograph of Indian Cottage, Wynberg, the home of Rev. J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. and family, about 1850. He became the first professor of Botany in the South African College in the 1860's and was the father of Dr John Brown, M.D. (missing)
2.15 Envelope with two cuttings and three photographs of Capt. John Croumbie Brown, son of Prof. Croumbie Brown and known as Capt. "Eternity" Brown; also a pamphlet "The Mercy Ship", written by Capt. J.C. Brown.
2.16. TSS. entitled "Settlers of Southwell", extract from Grocott's Daily Mail, 11.7.1967
About the Southey, Hart and Brown families. lp.
2.2 The old Cape Peninsula - some remarks on the old Colony, written for the Durban N.H.R.U. in July 1908. TSS. llpp.
2.3 A day at Madeira, written when aged 28 years, on a voyage to England to meet the relatives of Dr. John Brown. Published in : Cape Monthly Magazine, September 1874 : pp.158-163
2.4 Brown, Mrs. Mary. Memories of a friendship - Olive Schreiner and Mary Brown. TSS. 25pp. (TSS. of chapter published as an appendix in the "A life of Mrs. John Brown", by Angela James and Nina Hills).
2.5 Second copy in folder:
Second copy in TSS. entitled "Memories of my friendship with Olive Schreiner", by Mary Brown (Mrs. John Brown) - "written for my grandchildren". 32pp.
Note on cover states : "Much more detailed than the centenary pamphlet published for the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund 1955 (which was taken from the published life of Mrs. John Brown)".
2.6 Pamphlet : Olive Schreiner, memories of a friendship by Mrs. John Brown. Proceeds to the Olive Schreiner Scholarship Fund. Printed in 1955, but originally written in 1823.
2.7 Brown, Mrs. Mary. The joys of cycling. Article in Manchester Guardian, August 1895. Newspaper cutting with note on the back by her daughter, Mrs. R.E. Dick : "For writing this article my Mother, Mary Brown, was paid 11.1.0, with which she bought some real Honiton lace. She was criticised in the Burnley papers for riding a bicycle on Sunday and "slipping the leash of conventionality and orthodoxy:'
2.8 James, Angela and Hills, Nina. A life of Mrs. John Brown, 1847¬1935, with an account of her social work in Lancashire and South Africa, of her memories of Lancashire folk and of her friendship with Olive Schreiner. TSS. of book published. 237pp.
2.9 Exercise book into which many press cuttings have been pasted containing reviews of the Life of Mrs. John Brown in 1937/38.
Also some cuttings re the Solomon family later in the book.
At the back of the book are handwritten extracts from letters about Mrs. John Brown and about the biography.
2.10 Purchased:
2 typescript copies of a paper on the Solomon Family, written by Mrs. L.M. Earle.
2.11 Brown, Dr. and Mrs. John : Trip to the U.S.A. and Canada in 1884 (for the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Canada). Published as newspaper articles entitled Letters about a summer holiday in the "Far West". Newspaper cuttings, probably from the Cape Argus. 12pp.
2.12 Address to Dr. John Brown on his departure from Fraserburg to go back to Scotland for further studying, dated at Fraserburg, 17th April 1876 and signed by 41 inhabitants.
Signed inter alia by members of the Divisional Council, justices of the peace, field cornets, the magistrate, the D.R.C. predikant, the town clerk, etc. The signatures include two of the brothers-in¬law of Olive Schreiner, vis. J. Findlay and R.C. Hemming. The latter in 1890 became the first librarian of the Johannesburg Public Library.
2.13 Photograph of Dr. John Brown, M.D., in Cape Town in 1910, when he had retired to live in South Africa.
2.14. Photograph of Indian Cottage, Wynberg, the home of Rev. J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. and family, about 1850. He became the first professor of Botany in the South African College in the 1860's and was the father of Dr John Brown, M.D. (missing)
2.15 Envelope with two cuttings and three photographs of Capt. John Croumbie Brown, son of Prof. Croumbie Brown and known as Capt. "Eternity" Brown; also a pamphlet "The Mercy Ship", written by Capt. J.C. Brown.
2.16. TSS. entitled "Settlers of Southwell", extract from Grocott's Daily Mail, 11.7.1967
About the Southey, Hart and Brown families. lp.