WJ Leyds Collection

WJ Leyds Collection

Stellenbosch University

Willem Johannes Leyds (1859-1940) was a Dutch official, diplomat and historian whose life and career had a significant impact on South African history, especially during the period of the Anglo-Boer War. He began his career in South Africa as State Attorney of the Transvaal Republic in 1884. He was appointed as State Secretary in 1888. Throughout his career Leyds was involved in foreign affairs and acted as an intermediary between the Transvaal and the Dutch government. During the war itself Leyds was also responsible for organising propaganda for the Boer cause abroad. The span of his career and the duties it included led to Leyds collecting a number of valuable books, newpapers, pamphlets and other documentation in his lifetime

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Items in this collection are subject to copyright protection. Reproduction of the content, or any part of it, other than for research, academic or non-commercial use is prohibited without prior consent from the copyright holder. Copyright Stellenbosch University
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The pamphlets, mainly published in Europe, deal with the Anglo-Boer war, but also the periods preceding and after the war. Many items reflect European sympathy with the Boer cause
A part of his collection was donated to Stellenbosch University in 1920, including his valuable pamphlet collection which is represented in this digital collection
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De gesneuvelden en gestorvenen van de Gereformeerde Kerken in Zuid-Afrika gedurende den oorlog 1899-1902

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1906

Reformed Churches of South Africa's register of the dead during the Anglo-Boer War collected by Reverend W.J. de Klerk.

The churches and the South African war : lest we forget

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1905 English

Collection of newspaper correspondence on the church and the South African war.

Stanley, le roi des explorateurs

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1905 French

Nog eens de overgang van de Kaapkolonie

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1905 Dutch

Dutch letter, originally published in De Nederlandsche Spectator in 1905, confirming once again that the Cape was not sold to the British Government in 1814.

The 1905 Transvaal Constitution

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1905 English

Pamphlet on the 1905 Transvaal Constitution.

Met het Boksburg Kommando

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1905 Dutch

Description of the Boksburg Commando during the South African War (1899-1902) as well as during internment in a concentration camp in India.

Notes on the labour position in the Transvaal

SU: Stellenbosch University · 4 February 1904 English

Notes by the London Secretary of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines on the labour position in the Transvaal.

Sollen wir Deutsch-Sudwest-Afrika behalten : ein offenes Wort an das reichsdeutsche Publikum

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1904 German

German pamphlet written by a South African German on whether Germany should retain South-West Africa or not.

British workmen or Chinese slaves : the labour problem in the Transvaal

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1904 English

Not even two years since the end of the Transvaal war (the war which was undertaken to secure equal rights for all white men and to release the natives from …

Chinese labour

SU: Stellenbosch University · 1904 English

Dr Macnamara insists Lord Milner's unconcealed partisanship in favour of indentured Chinese Labour in the Transvaal is a grave scandal. Natal and the Cape are keenly against the introduction of …