The manuscript includes: (i) Typescripts of articles, 1907-1914, of John Purves on English and Italian literature which were published in various South African periodicals (folio 28); (ii) Catalogue of exhibits for the Shakespeare Tercentenary Exhibition, Pretoria, 1916 (folio 95); (iii) Typescript notes, ‘Early school legislation of Cape Colony’ (folio 127); (iv) Copy of an article by Olga Racster, 'Old Cape theatres', published in ‘The Cape times’ (folio 142); (v) Corrected typescript of Pauline Smith, 'An old couple. From a South African diary’, published in “Atalanta's garland’.