Papers; 1257 items; inventory.
Henry Nourse (1857-1942), mining pioneer, sportsman and soldier.
-- These papers were collected together and added to by NJ Law, a nephew of Henry Nourse. They relate primarily to Henry Nourse but include material on other members of the Nourse family such as Henry Nourse (1781-1834), trader at the Cape, Commodore Joseph Nourse (1779-1824), Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, Captain Joseph Nourse (1810-1905), early Natal settler, and to the Cloete, Christian, Law and Norton families, connected by marriage with the Nourses.
-- Subjects touched on are the 1820 Settlers, Kaffir, Zulu and South African Wars, diamond and gold-mining, horse-breeding and banking.
-- Correspondents include WE Bok, EF Bourke, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Earl of Clarendon, Sir CP Crewe, WK Dow, H Eckstein, Sir GH Farrar, IP Ferreira, Gen. JDP French, Sir J Frost, Viscount Gladstone, Sir HJ Goold-Adams, AJ Herholdt, Earl Kitchener, Sir JWS Langerman, Sir O Lanyon, NJ Law, T Law, CHB Leonard, S Marks, Viscount Milner, B Moodie, GG
-- Subjects touched on are the 1820 Settlers, Kaffir, Zulu and South African Wars, diamond and gold-mining, horse-breeding and banking.
-- Correspondents include WE Bok, EF Bourke, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Earl of Clarendon, Sir CP Crewe, WK Dow, H Eckstein, Sir GH Farrar, IP Ferreira, Gen. JDP French, Sir J Frost, Viscount Gladstone, Sir HJ Goold-Adams, AJ Herholdt, Earl Kitchener, Sir JWS Langerman, Sir O Lanyon, NJ Law, T Law, CHB Leonard, S Marks, Viscount Milner, B Moodie, GG Munnik, Sir L Phillips, JH Rainier, JFB Rissik, FY St. Leger, O Schreiner, RW Schumacher, Lord CH Somerset, Sir JG Sprigg, HF Strange, FPT Struben, HW Struben and Marquess of Tullibardine.