File C2 - Correspondence and miscellany

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ZA UCT BC81_C_C2

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Correspondence and miscellany

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Miscellaneous letters arranged chronologically (items from Clark are all copies and are from the High Commissioner’s Office, Cape Town, unless otherwise stated. Items to Clark are all originals).
1. MacDonald, Malcolm (Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs). To Sir W.H. Clark. Dated 16th December 1935. 2pp. Quarto. Holograph signature. On Dominions Office letterhead paper.
2. Clark, W.H. To Sir Harry F. Batterbee (Assistant Under Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs). Dated 27th February 1936. 3pp. Signed (holograph) Willy Clark. Heading (holograph) “My dear Harry”. Holograph addition in ink on front page. Marked “Private”. In pencil on first page “H.E.’s private file”.
3. Clark, W.H. To Sir Harry Batterbee. Dated 5th March, 1936. 6pp. Signed (typescript) Willy Clark. Marked “Private”. In pencil on first page “H.E.’s private file”.
3(a) Translation of extract from “Die Burger” of the 4th March 1936. 2pp. Headed “The Governor-General”.
4. MacDonald, Malcolm. To W.H. Clark. Dated March 11th 1936. 1p. Quarto. Signed (holograph) Malcolm. On Dominions Office letterhead paper.
5. Clark, W.H. To Sir Harry Batterbee. Dated 12th March 1936. 4 pp. Signed (holograph) Willy Clark. Heading (holograph) “My dear Harry”. Marked “Private”. On first page, in typescript, “For H.E.’s private file”.
6. Clark, W.H. to Batterbee. Dated 6th May 1936. 2pp. Signed and headed in holograph. Marked “Private”.
7. Hertzog, J.B.M. To “Dear Sir William” (Sir W.H.Clark). Dated 8 May 1936. 1p. On House of Assembly letterhead paper (lettered in Afrikaans). Holograph item.
8. Clark, W.H. To Batterbee. Dated 13th October 1936. 6p. Signed and headed in typescript. On the first page, in typescript, “Private file”. Letter addressed from High Commissioner’s Office, Pretoria.
9. B(atterbee), H.F. To “My dear Will” (W.H. Clark). Dated 11th November, 1936. 3p. Quarto. Signed (holograph), H.F.B. On Dominions Office crested paper. In blue pencil on first page, “Ansd(?) 24.11”. [No copy found in collection].
10. Clark, W.H. To Batterbee. Dated 26th November 1936. 7p. Signed and headed in typescript. Letter addressed from High Commissioner’s Office, Pretoria.
11. Egeland, Leif (then M.P. for Durban, Berea). To W.H. Clark. Dated 4th December 1936. 2p. Quarto. In holograph. From 320 Musgrave Road, Durban. Marked “Confidential”.
12. [Pinned behind above item] Clark, W.H. To Leif Egeland. Dated 7th December, 1936. 1p. From Pretoria. Marked “Confidential”.
13. Clark, W.H. To Lord Lugard. Dated 30th December, 1936. 2p. Heading and part of ending in holograph.
14. Clark, W.H. To Batterbee. Dated 14th January, 1937. 2p. On first page, in typescript, “H.E.’s personal file”. Marked “Personal”.
15. MacDonald, Malcolm. To W.H. Clark. Dated 22nd February 1937. 2pp Quarto. Heading and signature in holograph. On Dominions Office crested paper. Marked (holograph) “Private and personal”.
16. [Clipped behind previous item] Clark, W.H. To Malcolm MacDonald. Dated 11th March 1937. 2pp. Signature and heading omitted. “Air Mail”. Marked “Private and Personal”.
16(a) Another copy of the above item.

16(b) The holograph draft from which the above letter was typed. In purple ink. There are a few crossings out, and Bodenstein is referred to by initial only.
17. Clark, W.H. To Anthony Eden (then Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs). Dated 13th September 1939. 22p. From High Commissioner’s Office, Pretoria. Marked “South Africa, Dominions. Confidential. No. 267”.
18. Clark, W.H. To Sir Eric Gustav Machtig (Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office). Dated 30 November 1939. 7 p. From High Commissioner’s Office, Pretoria. Lacks heading and ending.

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