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Items on the shelves were unpacked from boxes marked CMR with the following content:
84a: Private letters from Johannesburg, 07/1911-07/1913
Financial records (liquidation of H Eckstein & Company)
1922 Strike: four boxes of letters
CM+IC boxes A-F, indexed on cover
Special resolutions, 2 boxes, 1945-1946 and 1931-1954
SC box E-G, Voting control and 60th anniversary brochure
CM+IC London – correspondence including Diamond Contract
Box 408 and 409, East Rand Proprietary Mines
Cape Private Letter Books, 34-49 and 61-64 (other Cape Private Letter Books are also found in the WB section and carry yellow stickers)
Mining Commission series, five volumes, 1922
Book of letters of condolence on the death of Sir Julius Wernher, 05/1912
PR files
• 1-4 - general papers and correspondence, 1919-1939
• General papers and correspondence, 1947-1953
• Minutes, 1940-1955
• Minutes, 1957-1962
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There is no inventory, however the following listing applies:
Letters are listed in two sections:
SC (it is unclear what SC represents): 102-127 (missing 103; 105-107; 109; 112; 116; 124-126)
Private Letters: 128-196 (missing 168 and 194)