BLACKWELL, Leslie Inventory of documents

Inventory of the private collection of

Adv L Blackwell

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Counsellor; leadership of United Party; letter to Sen. AE Trollip; letters from Gertrude Millen, JC Smuts, and FS Malan; statement on proceedings before Supreme Court Salisbury in Chitambala appeal;

1926-1961;

1 B. STATEMENTS AND

RADIO BROADCASTS

Radio broadcast re Chitambala case; "Twelve hours in the Game Reserve"

28 Sept. 1954

2 C. ARTICLES AND

MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscript entitled "African Lifetime" by Adv. Leslie Blackwell (Part 1)

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3 C. ARTICLES AND

MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscript entitled "African Lifetime" by Adv. Leslie Blackwell (Part 2)

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4 C. ARTICLES AND

MANUSCRIPTS

Articles by Leslie Blackwell: i) Parliament Under the Republic; ii) The Banning of Peter Hjul; iii) Whither the United Party?; iv) Fort Hare; v) Alice, Where Art Thou? (Town in the Eastern Cape, originally founded in 1836. The town stands on the banks of the Tyumie River near the Amatola Mountains.); vi) Southern Rhodesia -- What Next?; vii) Failure of University Apartheid; viii) The Facts Affecting the Policy of the South African Government in regard to Academic Apartheid; ix) Is South Africa a Police State?; x) Nats and Communists; xi) The Ganyile Case. South Africa and Justice; xii) Conferment of British Honours on South Africa Citizens

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5 C. ARTICLES AND

MANUSCRIPTS

Articles by Leslie Blackwell: i) Cuba and the Rule of Law; ii) Income Tax Changes in England; iii) Napoleon and the Shah: A Parallel; iv) Murder, Capital or Otherwise; v) What Is Obscenity?; vi) Boswell and the House of Lords (James Boswell, Scottish Advocate); vii) Boswell and the Sheep Stealer (James Boswell, Scottish Advocate); viii) Discovery Means What?; ix) Australia

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6 D. CLIPPINGS OF

ARTICLES BY LESLIE BLACKWELL

Clippings of articles by Leslie Blackwell: i) The New Liquor Bill (Parts 1 to 5); ii) The New Liquor Act Explained (Parts 1 to 9); iii) A Judge on Vacation Describes

Sacramento, the State Capitol of California (Source: THE STAR); iv) A Rand Judge's Visit to Canadian Prairie Towns (Source: THE STAR); v) A Judge on Vacation Mentions Canadian Press Interest in the Union's Crisis (Source: THE STAR); vi) A Judge on Vacation Found Canada Rule by

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vii) Parallel Between Afrikaners and French Canada (Source: THE STAR); viii) A Judge on Vacation Found that French Canadians are Loyal to the Commonwealth (Source: THE STAR); ix) A Judge on Vacation Describes How in Honolulu the Americans Handle an Extraordinary Mixture of Race (Source: THE STAR); x) A Judge on

Vacation Found a Canadian Oil Boom Town Like Early Johannesburg (Source: THE STAR); xi) Life With Father. An Austere Pioneer of Rand Business (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xii) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xiii) A Trip to the Continent (Source: WOMAN'S WORLD, SABC); xiv)

Switzerland in Winter (Source: WOMAN'S WORLD, SABC); xv) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook. Problems of Justice in Native Cases (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xvi) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook. Middle-Aged Woman and a Youth (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xvii) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook. Great Payroll Robbery and Murder Drama Unfolded in Court (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xviii) Why I Have Settled in Rhodesia. Newcomers Welcomed in a Thriving and Well-Ordered Country (Source: AFRICAN WORLD); xix) Choosing a Capitol. Rival Claimants in Southern Rhodesia (Source: AFRICAN WORLD); xx) It's a Good Life in Rhodesia (Source: OUTSPAN); xxi) Beira

(Mozambique) as a Holiday Resort. Difficulties which Deter Visitors from Up-Country (Source: AFRICAN WORLD); xxii) Fort Hare -- Centre of Bantu Culture in South Africa (Source: EVENING POST); xxiii) Farewell to a Country Town -- Alice, Eastern Cape (Source: EVENING POST); xxiv) The Tragedy of Fort Hare. University Professors Must Support Apartheid (Source: AFRICAN WORLD); xxv) The Judge's Function (Source: SA LAW JOURNAL); xxvi) The Story of Fort Hare (Source: FORUM); xxvii) At the Turn of the Century: The South African College (Source: UCT); xxviii) The

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St. Helena at the time of Napoleon's exile. They settled at the Cape…and founded one of South Africa's most remarkable families. (Source: PERSONALITY); xxix) Sir John Murray. The Sage of Plettenberg (Source: PERSONALITY); xxx) The Magnificent Schreiners. WP Schreiner (Source: PERSONALITY); xxxi) Still Rule of Law in SA. The Ganyile Case in Retrospect; xxxii) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook. The Case of the Elderly Witch Doctor (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xxxiii) Leaves from a Judge's Notebook. The Case of the Golden Hoard of Gilded Farthings and Other Cases (Source: THE SUNDAY TIMES); xxxiv) Southern Rhodesia as a Country to Visit; xxxv) Giant Crocodiles and Hippos by the Thousand. Thrilling Journey in the North of Uganda; xxxvi) Motorists' Impressions of Rhodesia. Praise for Colony's Scenic Attractions; xxxvii) Afrikaner, Briton, Jew. The View of a Representative Englishman on the Racial Problems of South Africa; xxxviii) Mens Rea in Statutory Offences. Parts I, II, and III (Source: THE SA LAW JOURNAL); xxxix) Fifty Years at the Bar (Source: THE SA LAW JOURNAL); xxxx) A Case at the Criminal Sessions in

Johannesburg Regarding Witchcraft and Murder 7 E. NOTES; F. PROGRAMS AND MEMORIALS; G. PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

General notes; programs and memorials of a general nature; correspondence, statement, and memoranda regarding Regina versus Dr van der Merwe

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F. PROGRAMMES AND MEMORABILIA

Programmes, menus, etc. G. PERSONAL

DOCUMENTS

Correspondence and speeches regarding Regina vs. Dr van der Merwe

Dec 1952-May 1095 8 H. SCRAPBOOKS News articles on new Liquor Bill written by

Leslie Blackwell; speeches delivered in Parliament by Leslie Blackwell; articles regarding flag issue; iron and steel industry; public debt; women's suffrage; the Pact Government; diamond cutting in Union; etc.

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proceedings; Liquor Bill; general election of 1933; Vaal-Harts irrigation scheme; press freedom; the Status Bills debate; the Cape Native franchise; General Law Amendment Bill; fusion; the death sentence; etc.

March 1933-June 1935

10 H. SCRAPBOOKS News cuttings regarding death sentence; General Law Amendment Act; political future of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland; fusion; neutrality; taxation and cost of living; liquor trade; political history of Transvaal since 1952; etc.

June 1935-June 1937

11 H. SCRAPBOOKS News cuttings regarding Amended Industrial Conciliation Act; Southern Rhodesia; franchise position of various sections of South African population; inter-Dominion relations; national anthem dispute; general election 1938; "African Occasions" excerpts; etc.

July 1937-Sept. 1938

12 H. SCRAPBOOKS News cuttings regarding German colonies in Africa; Vaal-Harts irrigation scheme; "African Occasions" excerpts; Afrikaner unity;

neutrality; Locarno Treaty; defence policy; conditions in Southwest Africa; Asiatics Bill; Electoral Law; etc.

Oct. 1938-July 1940

13 H. SCRAPBOOKS News cuttings regarding republican demonstration in Bloemfontein; new electoral law; World War; broadcasts from Zeesen; Oswald Pirow plea for National Socialism in South Africa; internment problems; Ossewa-Brandwag; war expenditure; Afrikaner Party; etc.

July 1940-May 1943

14 H. SCRAPBOOKS Correspondence and speeches regarding Blackwell's mission to Australia on behalf of JC Smuts to make contact with new Labour Ministry; South African prison conditions; Saul Solomon; Select Committee on Public Accounts; "Farewell to Parliament" excerpts

Oct. 1941-July 1954

15 H. SCRAPBOOKS Photographs of Adv. Blackwell; news cuttings regarding University of Fort Hare; university apartheid; Langa disturbances and inquiry; referendum on the Republic; General Law Amendment (Sabotage) Act; criticism of National Party; etc.

Sept. 1954-Nov. 1962

16 H. SCRAPBOOKS Scrapbook with photographs of Adv. Blackwell, Gen. JC Smuts, and Mr JH Hofmeyr; political cartoons; letters and excerpts from news cuttings regarding Adv.

May 1939-March 1948

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17 H. SCRAPBOOKS Scrapbook with photos entitled "This Is South Africa"; photos of Gen. and Mrs JC Smuts at Irene; Pres. Paul Kruger; Pres. MW Pretorius; photos of paintings of Cecil John Rhodes and Gen. Dan Pienaar; photos of Mujaji, the Rain Queen; Ndebele women; etc.

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18 H. SCRAPBOOKS Statement by Gen. JBM Hertzog and Gen. JC Smuts in regard to cooperation; policy of apartheid; academic apartheid; General Law Amendment Act (No. 46 of 1935)

c. 1933-April 1961

19 H. SCRAPBOOKS Newspaper cuttings of a general nature 1910-1959 20 H. SCRAPBOOKS News cuttings regarding referendum on a

republic; censorship; South Africa and the rule of law; Liberal Party South Africa; Mr Robert Menzies; Commonwealth injured by departure of South Africa; declaration condemning South Africa's apartheid policy

1960-1969

21 H. SCRAPBOOKS Photographs of Adv. Leslie Blackwell, Gen. JC Smuts, Mr JH Hofmeyr, etc.

n.d. 1 PUBLICATIONS Leslie Blackwell faces both ways!

Kensington, c1933.

2 PUBLICATIONS Suid-Afrikaanse Matigheidsalliansie: Aan alle vroulike kiesers in Kensington Kiesafdeling. Johannesburg, 1933. 3 PUBLICATIONS Van Belkum, A, Nine reasons why you

should and must return Mr J L Schurink to Parliament for the Kensington Constituency. - PUBLICATIONS Blackwell, L, Notes on the Financial position of the Union as at 31st March, 1943. Cape Town.

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4 PUBLICATIONS Blackwell, L, Farewell to Parliament. Pietermaritzburg, 1946.

UFS Library - PUBLICATIONS Blackwell, L, African Occasions. London,

Hutchinson, 1938.

UFS Library (Africana) I. INFORMATION Statement by Gen. JBM Hertzog and Gen.

JC Smuts in regard to cooperation; policy of apartheid; academic apartheid; General Law Amendment Act (No. 46 of 1935);

Resolution adopted by the 46th annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors; Davis, BH, Academic apartheid. The Association and the South African Professors. From AAUP Bulletin; 1961- Union normal tax; Index to Seats;