Captain Robert Jones Garden papers

MS Shelf: 
GAR
MS Date: 
1851-53, 1961-62
MS Original collection number: 
29081, 29082
MS Extent: 
7 files
MS File list: 
Available at KCAL
MS Historical note: 

Captain Robert Garden of the 45th Regiment of Foot, arrived in the Cape from England with his Regiment in 1843, and came to Natal in 1848. He was based for most of his time in Natal in Pietermaritzburg. He made several journeys inland and along the coast of Natal in 1851 and 1852 and his journeys are recorded in his diary, where he comments on various subjects, e.g. historical, botanical, ethnological. He retired to England in 1853.

MS Title: 
Captain Robert Jones Garden papers
MS Scope and Content: 

Collection comprises typed transcriptions of his diary, and miscellaneous notes and information, the originals of which are in the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository of the National Archives of South Africa. The Mashu Museum of the Campbell Collections also contains a collection of his paintings, which complement the diary

MS Provenance: 
Original collection
MS Local system number: 
KCAL309079
MS Physical description: 
typescripts (bound)

Manuscript Inventory:

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