Reference code
ZA UCT BC1422_H_H5
Title
Examination answer books
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File
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(1899-1976)
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The descriptions of the contents of the examination answer books should not be seen as exhaustive.
H5.1 “Monday Class. Book I. Feb-March 1940. Mythology. Folk-lore. legend.” MS.
“BK I(a)”. Notes from books on schools and teaching, folk-tales and fables, etc. MS.
“Thursday Class. I. March 1940. Lectures at Buxton Nursery School Training Centre.” MS.
“2. Celtic Mythology. Nibelungenlied. Beowulf. Arthurian legend. see also Book 5.” MS.
“Thursday Lecture. BK 2. April. 1940. Stories, cont. Laughter. Fear. Why stories are told, etc.” MS.
“2A. Poems. Plays. Stories. notes. [Francis B.] Gummere on poetry. How to tell Stories: [to children by] Sarah Cone Bryant.” Notes on fairy tales and folk-tales. MS.
H5.2 “3. The Poets of Children. Blake. Christina Rossetti. R.L.S. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Walter de la Mare. A.N. Milne. Lewis Carroll. Kipling Cont.” [Notes]. MS.
“Aug. 1940. Oct. 5. Monday Class. cont. Kenneth Grahame. The Epic (Greek. English.) Romance. Notes on the Novel. Bunyan, Defoe, etc.” MS.
“Book. 6. Finger play and action games.” “Notes on the novel”. MS.
“1940. Reading for lectures. Drama. Ballad.” Plus 1 loose sheet. MS.
“Feb. 1941. X.” Notes from books on child psychology and the nursery school. MS.
“BK. 4.” “Thursday Lecture. 30th Oct. 1941. Feb. March. 1942.” MS.
“Lectures. Nov. 1941. Some Women Writers: Burney. Jane Austen. Olive Schreiner (adapted from other Note Book of her Life and letters.” MS.
H5.3 July-Aug. 1942. Notes from books: Black Hamlet by Wulf Sachs, Love on the dole by Walter Greenwood, In a province by Laurens van der Post, etc. Plus 1 sheet attached to inside of back cover.
Aug. 1942. Notes from books, including Brown America by Edwin Embree. Notes on G.B. Shaw, Ibsen, Pauline Smith, W.M. Saroyan, etc. Plus 2 loose sheets.
Aug. 1942. Ivory towers – new model [notes]. Notes on adult education, literary criticism, etc. Plus 5 loose sheets.
Aug. 1942. “Convention and Elections. 1942.” [Notes]. Notes on meetings of the All African Convention Committee, and New Era Fellowship, 1943. MS.
Nov. 1942. Notes from books including Last train from Berlin by Howard K. Smith, Dark testament by Peter Abrahams, The South Africans by Sarah Gertrude Millin and Negro art, past and present by Alain Locke. MS.
1943. Notes from The magic mountain by Thomas Mann, The decline of liberalism by H.J. Laski, The dark river by S.G. Millen and War and peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Feb. 1943. Notes on/from: Rhodes by S.G. Millin; My apprenticeship by Beatrice Webb; Caliban in Africa by Leonard Barnes; Trial of a judge by Stephen Spender. MS.
Feb. 1943. Notes on/from, inter alia, Bernard Shaw: socialism and art by E. Strauss, The night is long, The South Africans and Rhodes by S.G. Millin. Draft article on Trial of a judge by Stephen Spender. Some pages loose. MS. Plus 1 small sheet of paper with MS writing (“I once thought you and I were equals, …”).
May 1943. Notes on Thomas Pringle. Notes from General Smuts by S.G. Millen, The press and the organisation of society by Norman Angell, Paper houses and I speak of Africa by William Plomer. “The Press and Pringle, notes, are continued in Blue Writing Pad. Sept. 1943.” MS. See also F8
Nov. 1943. ‘Early history of Cape. Pringle, etc. Lenin, [Vladimir] Kropotkin. Poems of John Singer. Spender: Life and the Poet. Notes for Liberalism. See also Blue Writing Pad – Briffault, “Auden & After” [by Francis] Scarfe. Eliot.’ [Notes]. MS. See also F8
H5.4 Jan 1944. “Notes for Stories and Play Nongqause.” Notes from, inter alia, What is art? by Leo Tolstoy and Art and society by G.V. Plekhanov. Notes from an article in Bantu studies, v. 12, 1938 by B.W. Vilakazi on Zulu poetry and art. Back cover of book missing. MS. See also H1.1
Feb. 1944 March. Notes from, inter alia, The harrow by W.G. Scully and The politics of the unpolitical by Herbert Read. MS.
May 1944. ‘“Ivory Towers” - theme cont.’ Notes on literature, from various books. MS.
June 1944. “Transformation. 1944. D.H. Lawrence. Auden, etc. Eliot, again. [Henry] Treece.” Includes part of draft for article, The poet at bay. MS.
May 1945. Upton Sinclair. [Notes and draft of article]. MS.
Sept. 1945. Notes from Hansard 1887-1892 on various acts of Parliament. MS.
5. Nov. 1945. “1903-1905 Nat. Affairs Commission. W.P. Schreiner, Cont. 1913 Land Act etc. Sauer.” [Notes on South African government policy towards Africans]. MS.
Feb. 1946. Theodore Dreiser. [Draft article]. Notes from Hansard 1945 on legislation relating to Africans.
Aug. 1946. “Books”. [Bibliography]. Plus 1 loose sheet.
H5.5 Oct. 1947. [Notes on]: Travels and researches in Caffraria and A succinct statement of the kaffir’s case by Stephen Kay; Reminiscences of kaffir life and history by Charles Brownlee; The south-eastern Bantu by J.H. Soga. MS.
March 1948. Notes from books on philosophy. Notes on Franz Kafka. MS.
May 1948. “For Lecture on Literature./Renaissance. Symbolism again. Joyce, etc. From cubism to Surrealism in French Literature. Lemaître. Rimbaud.” MS.
June 1948. Notes from The age of reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc. MS.
Aug. 1948. “Folk-lore.” MS.
Jan. 1950. “The Development of American Negro Literature.” [Notes on African Americans and African American literature]. Includes notes from The negro in American fiction by S. Brown. MS.
Jan 1950. “Development of American Negro Literature (2).” [Notes]. MS.
Lecture March 1950. Development of American Negro Literature. [Draft lecture]. Loose sheets in the covers of an examination answer book. MS.
H5.6 8 April 1952. The thunderstorm [quotation from Dante, and draft paragraph, both crossed through]. Portrait of a pseudo-artist [draft beginning of a short story?]. Johannesburg: city of gold: Moloch [notes]. MS. Plus: Moloch: the god who devours [draft beginning of novel?], 6 sheets; A study in colour [Kathie] [draft for novel], 2 sheets (MS).
Jan. 1961. “A few p.p. of notes for my study of an intellectual.” Plus loose pages: review by Deidre Levinson of The wrath of the ancestors by A.C. Jordan [MS, not in Dora Taylor’s handwriting]. Plus scrap of paper with MS notes.
1939-1940, 1955. “Olive Schreiner. Letters. Her life.” [Notes on Olive Schreiner]. MS.
“1946. Dec. 1948.” “Hansard, 1946” “Cuttings for Novel. Men of Java. Hugh Tracey: Chopi Musicians. 1959.” “Notes for Nongqause. 1958”. MS.
H5.7 “Dickens.” [Notes]. MS.
“Gulliver’s Travels. Fielding. Scott. R.L.S. cont. Thackeray.” [Notes]. Plus 3 loose sheets. MS.
Notes on Greek and English drama, and Shakespeare. Front cover missing. MS.
Notes on, inter alia, Science and social needs by Julian Huxley, Green banners by R.M. Fox, Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell and The big money by John Dos Passos. “Cultural backwardness in S.A. Colonial complex.” MS.
“Literature & Rev. Cont.” Notes from, inter alia, An adventurous past by Roy Campbell, Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Bread and wine by Ignazio Silone. MS.
“Roy Campbell. cont II.” Notes from Breakdown by Robert Briffault and Men without art by Wyndham Lewis. MS.
H5.8 Notes on Paul Gauguin. Draft poems. MS.
“Notes on Montaigne.” Draft article: Woman’s opportunity. Notes from Katherine Mansfield’s letters. MS.
“Notes. Literary. Tristan & Iseult.” Notes and draft of Tristan & Iseult. Plus 2 loose pages. MS.
“Record of articles”. Notes on child psychology. Draft articles: Radio in the schools; The film in the classroom; Don’ts! MS.
“Articles. cont.” Politics and us by “Vivian Russell” [article]. Notes from Cassandra by Florence Nightingale and Woman and labour by Olive Schreiner. Woman and fascism [article]. More than politics [article]. MS.
“Articles cont.” Anxiety [draft article]. Youth and age (On growing old) [draft article]. ‘War: article by Mrs. Goldie --“Trek”.’ Safety first: some thoughts on dependability [draft article]. MS. Plus draft article entitled: Dependability (4 small loose sheets, MS).
The child and the newspaper. Parents & their children: can they be chums? [Articles]. MS.
[Notes from]: Blue book with correspondence relating to the British South Africa Company in Mashonaland and Matabeleland in the time of Lobengula; The black Jacobins by C.L.A. James; The letters of Olive Schreiner 1876-1920. MS.
Notes on South African acts of parliament. List of African literature. MS.
H5.1 “Monday Class. Book I. Feb-March 1940. Mythology. Folk-lore. legend.” MS.
“BK I(a)”. Notes from books on schools and teaching, folk-tales and fables, etc. MS.
“Thursday Class. I. March 1940. Lectures at Buxton Nursery School Training Centre.” MS.
“2. Celtic Mythology. Nibelungenlied. Beowulf. Arthurian legend. see also Book 5.” MS.
“Thursday Lecture. BK 2. April. 1940. Stories, cont. Laughter. Fear. Why stories are told, etc.” MS.
“2A. Poems. Plays. Stories. notes. [Francis B.] Gummere on poetry. How to tell Stories: [to children by] Sarah Cone Bryant.” Notes on fairy tales and folk-tales. MS.
H5.2 “3. The Poets of Children. Blake. Christina Rossetti. R.L.S. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Walter de la Mare. A.N. Milne. Lewis Carroll. Kipling Cont.” [Notes]. MS.
“Aug. 1940. Oct. 5. Monday Class. cont. Kenneth Grahame. The Epic (Greek. English.) Romance. Notes on the Novel. Bunyan, Defoe, etc.” MS.
“Book. 6. Finger play and action games.” “Notes on the novel”. MS.
“1940. Reading for lectures. Drama. Ballad.” Plus 1 loose sheet. MS.
“Feb. 1941. X.” Notes from books on child psychology and the nursery school. MS.
“BK. 4.” “Thursday Lecture. 30th Oct. 1941. Feb. March. 1942.” MS.
“Lectures. Nov. 1941. Some Women Writers: Burney. Jane Austen. Olive Schreiner (adapted from other Note Book of her Life and letters.” MS.
H5.3 July-Aug. 1942. Notes from books: Black Hamlet by Wulf Sachs, Love on the dole by Walter Greenwood, In a province by Laurens van der Post, etc. Plus 1 sheet attached to inside of back cover.
Aug. 1942. Notes from books, including Brown America by Edwin Embree. Notes on G.B. Shaw, Ibsen, Pauline Smith, W.M. Saroyan, etc. Plus 2 loose sheets.
Aug. 1942. Ivory towers – new model [notes]. Notes on adult education, literary criticism, etc. Plus 5 loose sheets.
Aug. 1942. “Convention and Elections. 1942.” [Notes]. Notes on meetings of the All African Convention Committee, and New Era Fellowship, 1943. MS.
Nov. 1942. Notes from books including Last train from Berlin by Howard K. Smith, Dark testament by Peter Abrahams, The South Africans by Sarah Gertrude Millin and Negro art, past and present by Alain Locke. MS.
1943. Notes from The magic mountain by Thomas Mann, The decline of liberalism by H.J. Laski, The dark river by S.G. Millen and War and peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Feb. 1943. Notes on/from: Rhodes by S.G. Millin; My apprenticeship by Beatrice Webb; Caliban in Africa by Leonard Barnes; Trial of a judge by Stephen Spender. MS.
Feb. 1943. Notes on/from, inter alia, Bernard Shaw: socialism and art by E. Strauss, The night is long, The South Africans and Rhodes by S.G. Millin. Draft article on Trial of a judge by Stephen Spender. Some pages loose. MS. Plus 1 small sheet of paper with MS writing (“I once thought you and I were equals, …”).
May 1943. Notes on Thomas Pringle. Notes from General Smuts by S.G. Millen, The press and the organisation of society by Norman Angell, Paper houses and I speak of Africa by William Plomer. “The Press and Pringle, notes, are continued in Blue Writing Pad. Sept. 1943.” MS. See also F8
Nov. 1943. ‘Early history of Cape. Pringle, etc. Lenin, [Vladimir] Kropotkin. Poems of John Singer. Spender: Life and the Poet. Notes for Liberalism. See also Blue Writing Pad – Briffault, “Auden & After” [by Francis] Scarfe. Eliot.’ [Notes]. MS. See also F8
H5.4 Jan 1944. “Notes for Stories and Play Nongqause.” Notes from, inter alia, What is art? by Leo Tolstoy and Art and society by G.V. Plekhanov. Notes from an article in Bantu studies, v. 12, 1938 by B.W. Vilakazi on Zulu poetry and art. Back cover of book missing. MS. See also H1.1
Feb. 1944 March. Notes from, inter alia, The harrow by W.G. Scully and The politics of the unpolitical by Herbert Read. MS.
May 1944. ‘“Ivory Towers” - theme cont.’ Notes on literature, from various books. MS.
June 1944. “Transformation. 1944. D.H. Lawrence. Auden, etc. Eliot, again. [Henry] Treece.” Includes part of draft for article, The poet at bay. MS.
May 1945. Upton Sinclair. [Notes and draft of article]. MS.
Sept. 1945. Notes from Hansard 1887-1892 on various acts of Parliament. MS.
5. Nov. 1945. “1903-1905 Nat. Affairs Commission. W.P. Schreiner, Cont. 1913 Land Act etc. Sauer.” [Notes on South African government policy towards Africans]. MS.
Feb. 1946. Theodore Dreiser. [Draft article]. Notes from Hansard 1945 on legislation relating to Africans.
Aug. 1946. “Books”. [Bibliography]. Plus 1 loose sheet.
H5.5 Oct. 1947. [Notes on]: Travels and researches in Caffraria and A succinct statement of the kaffir’s case by Stephen Kay; Reminiscences of kaffir life and history by Charles Brownlee; The south-eastern Bantu by J.H. Soga. MS.
March 1948. Notes from books on philosophy. Notes on Franz Kafka. MS.
May 1948. “For Lecture on Literature./Renaissance. Symbolism again. Joyce, etc. From cubism to Surrealism in French Literature. Lemaître. Rimbaud.” MS.
June 1948. Notes from The age of reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc. MS.
Aug. 1948. “Folk-lore.” MS.
Jan. 1950. “The Development of American Negro Literature.” [Notes on African Americans and African American literature]. Includes notes from The negro in American fiction by S. Brown. MS.
Jan 1950. “Development of American Negro Literature (2).” [Notes]. MS.
Lecture March 1950. Development of American Negro Literature. [Draft lecture]. Loose sheets in the covers of an examination answer book. MS.
H5.6 8 April 1952. The thunderstorm [quotation from Dante, and draft paragraph, both crossed through]. Portrait of a pseudo-artist [draft beginning of a short story?]. Johannesburg: city of gold: Moloch [notes]. MS. Plus: Moloch: the god who devours [draft beginning of novel?], 6 sheets; A study in colour [Kathie] [draft for novel], 2 sheets (MS).
Jan. 1961. “A few p.p. of notes for my study of an intellectual.” Plus loose pages: review by Deidre Levinson of The wrath of the ancestors by A.C. Jordan [MS, not in Dora Taylor’s handwriting]. Plus scrap of paper with MS notes.
1939-1940, 1955. “Olive Schreiner. Letters. Her life.” [Notes on Olive Schreiner]. MS.
“1946. Dec. 1948.” “Hansard, 1946” “Cuttings for Novel. Men of Java. Hugh Tracey: Chopi Musicians. 1959.” “Notes for Nongqause. 1958”. MS.
H5.7 “Dickens.” [Notes]. MS.
“Gulliver’s Travels. Fielding. Scott. R.L.S. cont. Thackeray.” [Notes]. Plus 3 loose sheets. MS.
Notes on Greek and English drama, and Shakespeare. Front cover missing. MS.
Notes on, inter alia, Science and social needs by Julian Huxley, Green banners by R.M. Fox, Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell and The big money by John Dos Passos. “Cultural backwardness in S.A. Colonial complex.” MS.
“Literature & Rev. Cont.” Notes from, inter alia, An adventurous past by Roy Campbell, Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Bread and wine by Ignazio Silone. MS.
“Roy Campbell. cont II.” Notes from Breakdown by Robert Briffault and Men without art by Wyndham Lewis. MS.
H5.8 Notes on Paul Gauguin. Draft poems. MS.
“Notes on Montaigne.” Draft article: Woman’s opportunity. Notes from Katherine Mansfield’s letters. MS.
“Notes. Literary. Tristan & Iseult.” Notes and draft of Tristan & Iseult. Plus 2 loose pages. MS.
“Record of articles”. Notes on child psychology. Draft articles: Radio in the schools; The film in the classroom; Don’ts! MS.
“Articles. cont.” Politics and us by “Vivian Russell” [article]. Notes from Cassandra by Florence Nightingale and Woman and labour by Olive Schreiner. Woman and fascism [article]. More than politics [article]. MS.
“Articles cont.” Anxiety [draft article]. Youth and age (On growing old) [draft article]. ‘War: article by Mrs. Goldie --“Trek”.’ Safety first: some thoughts on dependability [draft article]. MS. Plus draft article entitled: Dependability (4 small loose sheets, MS).
The child and the newspaper. Parents & their children: can they be chums? [Articles]. MS.
[Notes from]: Blue book with correspondence relating to the British South Africa Company in Mashonaland and Matabeleland in the time of Lobengula; The black Jacobins by C.L.A. James; The letters of Olive Schreiner 1876-1920. MS.
Notes on South African acts of parliament. List of African literature. MS.