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B1. Letter from Lord Selbourne to Sir Frederick [Smith] re Walker’s appointment as History Professor at UCT. TS. 7.7.1911
B2. Invitation to dinner to Dr. E. Barnard Fuller. 4.8.1911.
B3. Certificate re conferral of degree of Master of Arts from University of the Cape of Good Hope. 6.11.[1912]
B4. Certificate from Merton College, Oxford re University dues. 14.12.1912.
B5. Pencil sketch of battleships by Walker. Falkland Islands. 1914.
B6. Confirmation certificate from Diocese of Cape Town. 4.8.1918.
B7. Letter from John X. Merriman to Jim [?] introducing Eric Walker. MS. 22.2.1920.
B8. Testimonial from Sir James Rose Innes re Walker’s application to Beit Chair of Colonial History at Oxford. TS. 20.6.1920.
B9. Testimonial from J.C. Smuts re Walker’s application to Beit Chair of Colonial History at Oxford. TS. 7.7.1920.
B10. Letter from Francis [Pember?] to [Reginald] Coupland re Walker’s election as an Associate Member of All Souls College, Oxford. MS. 8.11.1929.
B11. Songs from World War 1, Roneod. 3 leaves. MS note “Given me by Major E.B. Walker, Grahamstown, Feb. 1936.”
B12. Master of Arts degree certificate from University of Cambridge. 16.10.1936.
B13. Certificate re appointment to University of Cambridge as Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History. 14.12.1936.
B14. Memorandum of agreement between Walker and Bowes & Bowes Publishers re The British Empire. TS. 30.4.1953.
B15. Honorary degree D. Litt. from UCT. 27.8.1968.
B16. Programme of UCT graduation ceremony. 27.8.1968.
B17. UCT Rugby Football Club. Report on the UCT past and present overseas tour. 1968/69.
B18. UCT Rugby Football Club. Tour of United Kingdom. Golden Jubilee, 1968. Programme.
B19. Report on UCT Rowing Tour to England, June/July 1975.
B20. Correspondence with the University of Natal re Walker’s honorary degree. TSS & MSS. 1975-76.
B21. Address book belonging to Walker, started when he was at Merton College, Oxford. MS. Dated 1908 and 1911.
B22. Newspaper clippings
B22.1 Re Walker’s appointment as Professor to Chair of History at the South African College [Presbyterian? 13.7.1911]
B22.2 Obituary of William Walker. P.L.A. Monthly. July 1927.
B22.3 Re Walker’s appointment to Chair of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge University. Xerox. Source unknown. [1936?]
B22.4 Alan Paton’s criticism of “Oh what a lovely war” Daily News. 15.4.1970
B23. Satirical political broadsheet [ca. 1881?] … Mr. W.E. Gladstone will sell by auction … the whole of the vast landed estates, goods, chattels and effects of John Bull, Esq.
B24. The precepts of John Colet… Now newly arranged for old students of the University of Bristol… [n.d.]