Reference code
ZA UCT BC661
Title
G W R TOBIAS PAPERS
Date(s)
- circa 1920-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
7 boxes
Name of creator
(1882-1974)
Biographical history
Clergyman, third Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia) from 1939 to 1949.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the University of Cape Town Libraries by Mr Robert Tobias
Scope and content
Box 1:
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 1 to 5)
Box 2
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 7-9)
Box 3
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 10 to 13)
Box 4
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 14 to 15 and part of 16)
Box 5
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 16-20)
Box 6
Cassette tape: Reminiscences of G W R Tobias
Omalinjongameno Ōngeleka [Services of the Church in Kwanyama], authorised for use in the Diocese of Damaraland. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1957.
Laurmaa, Erkki: Afrika juuningininomutenja. Helsinki: Finse Sending, 1949. Contains inscription to G W R Tobias from the author.
Various pamphlets and programmes for church services, mostly 1940s and 1950s.
Vocabularies to Osikuanjama Grammar and Syntax. Osikuanjama – English. Carbon copy.
Notes and letters.
Box 7
Manuscript copy of Tobias’s dictionary (English-?Kwanyama). Partially typed and partially handwritten.
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 1 to 5)
Box 2
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 7-9)
Box 3
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 10 to 13)
Box 4
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 14 to 15 and part of 16)
Box 5
Sermon notes. A handwritten list is available of the readings on which the sermons were based. (Bundles 16-20)
Box 6
Cassette tape: Reminiscences of G W R Tobias
Omalinjongameno Ōngeleka [Services of the Church in Kwanyama], authorised for use in the Diocese of Damaraland. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1957.
Laurmaa, Erkki: Afrika juuningininomutenja. Helsinki: Finse Sending, 1949. Contains inscription to G W R Tobias from the author.
Various pamphlets and programmes for church services, mostly 1940s and 1950s.
Vocabularies to Osikuanjama Grammar and Syntax. Osikuanjama – English. Carbon copy.
Notes and letters.
Box 7
Manuscript copy of Tobias’s dictionary (English-?Kwanyama). Partially typed and partially handwritten.