History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa [WHI Bleek's title: 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa']

History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa [WHI Bleek's title: 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa']

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A rigid marbled folder with a plain paper label with cancelled inscriptions 'Bushman Genealogies' and '"Grimm's Law" in S. A.' -- replaced by 'Chas Thomas's MS.' -- containing C Thomas's MS for his 'History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission to Central Africa' (c. 1872-3) along with related correspondence and notes (c. 1873-1876), MS.

Charles Thomas's MS, pp 101-105, pp 140-143, pp 164-264

Enclosed in a rigid cloth-bound folder - with its front and back faced with marbled paper - are 4 letters from Charles Thomas to WHI Bleek, some dated 1873, about Thomas's MS (F1.12.1-4). Thomas was a 'Negro' Makua interpreter to the late Charles Mackenzie, the first Anglican Bishop of Central Africa (d. 1862). Additionally, there is a letter from C Herman to Miss Lloyd about photographing 'the Negro' (Charles Thomas), dated 1876 (F1.12.5); part of a draft letter to Mr Marsh, who then employed Charles Thomas as a 'storeman', dated 1876 (F1.12.6); a receipt for £5 written by Lucy Lloyd and signed by Charles Thomas allowing the Grey Library to acquire his MS, dated 1876 (F1.12.7-8); some preliminary pages to the MS, by Dr Bleek and Lucy Lloyd (F.12.9-14); and a letter from Henry Solomon to Jan Carel Juta, dated 1873 (F1.12.16). Charles Thomas' (unpublished?) MS (F1.12.17-18) was partially corrected by Dr Bleek and retitled 'A Negro's History of Bishop Mackenzie's Mission'. Given Charles Thomas's (native name: Milī́kot?) strained signature when compared to the fluid script in 'his' letters, Thomas conceivably had someone else scribing for him. A note (by LC Lloyd?) inserted with F1.12.7 names Thomas's son and that man's sister-in-law as the scribes for his MS.