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The Library of Jan Christian Smuts SMUTS HOUSE MUSEUM The Library of Jan Christian Smuts www.smutshouse.co.za e-mail: [email protected] Other publications in the Information Series: No 1 Jan Christian Smuts 1870 - 1950: A Chronology No 2 An Introduction to Holism No 3 The Smuts Koppie Grasslands No 4 The Oubaas Trail No 5 Die Oubaas Voetslaanpad No 6 History of the Big House Smuts House Museum P O Box 36 0062 Irene Tel: +27 (0)12 667 1176/1180 Cell: +27 (0)71 100 8481 e-mail: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-9869751-3-4 THE GENERAL SMUTS FOUNDATION INFORMATION SERIES: NO 7 The Library of Jan Christian Smuts This booket was compiled and published by the Friends BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON SMUTS of the General Smuts Foundation, and is sold in aid of Cunningham, Anna M. Jan Christian Smuts papers. Johannesburg: University of the General Smuts Foundation, Smuts House Museum, the Witwatersrand Library, 1976. (Historical and Literary Papers: Inventories Irene, Centurion. of Collections), 7p. Greenwald, Doreen J. Jan Christian Smuts: bibliography. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, School of Librarianship, 1951, 21p. Authors: Jacqueline A Kalley and Elna Schoeman (former curators, Jan Smuts Library, Jan Smuts House, Kalley, Jacqueline A., Schoeman, Elna and Willers, Joy. Letters to Smuts: correspondence relating to the personal library of General J.C. Smuts, 1902- University of the Witwatersrand) 1950. Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs, 1980. Acknowledgement: The publication by Jacqueline A Kalley entitled Jan (South African Institute of International Affairs. Bibliographical Series, no. 6), Christian Smuts: A Bibliophile? Johannesburg: 129p. University of the Witwatersrand Library, 1985 Ratcliffe, U.M. A bibliography of books and speeches by the late General J.C. (copyright Jacqueline A Kalley), on which the Smuts. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, School of Librarianship, 1953, present work is based. 47p. Edited: Prof Elwyn Jenkins, Committee member, Scott, J.A.S. Jan Christian Smuts: a bibliography of prefaces, forewords and Friends of the General Smuts Foundation introductions by Smuts and biographical data about him. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, School of Librarianship, 1953, 46p. Layout & DTP: Cheryl Dehning, Committee member, Friends of the General Smuts Foundation Printing sponsored by: Friends of the General Smuts Foundation, P O Box 80, Irene 0062, South Africa Photographs: Photographs of museum contents and reproductions of photographs courtesy of Smuts House Museum – C Dehning; Photographs of SA Institute for International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand – D McCallum Second, revised edition 2012 ISBN 978-0-9869751-3-4 The Smuts family during the Second World War Front: Kathleen Mincher (née de Villiers, foster daughter), Isie and Jan Smuts, Dr Louis McIldowie (née Smuts), Sylma Coaton (née Smuts); Back: Jan Smuts Jnr, Jack Coaton Friends of the General Smuts Foundation (son-in-law), Japie Smuts; Inserts: Top Left: Daphne Smuts (née Webster, wife of Jan affiliated to the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa. Smuts Jnr); Top right: Santa Weyers (née Smuts). Cato Clark (née Smuts) was in Incorporated Association not for gain – F.N. 01 100078 000 3 Reg. No. 05/04568/08 England at the time www.smutshouse.co.za e-mail: [email protected] Information Series: No 7 13 Matters of the Mind The Library of Jan Christian Smuts BIOGRAPHIES OF SMUTS Introduction Almendro. Jan Christian Smuts, Field Marshall. Cairo: Schindler, [1943?], 8p. Doornkloof – an unlikely home for Armstrong, H.C. Grey steel, J.C. Smuts: a study in arrogance. London: Barker, 1937, a statesman, the big old house 406p. fashioned from wood and iron Cameron, Trewhella. Jan Smuts: an illustrated biography. Cape Town: Human and looms over the landscape just as Rousseau, 1994, 192p. Jan Christian Smuts dominated Crafford, F.S. Jan Smuts: a biography. New York, Greenwood, 1968, 175p. South Africa’s political scene for over 50 years. Smuts secured this Danziger, Christopher. Jan Smuts. Cape Town: Macdonald South Africa, 1978, 24p. erstwhile officers’ mess in 1908 from De Villiers, Les. South Africa drawn in colour: the Smuts years, 1945-1946. Sandton: Middelburg in the then Transvaal Gordon, 1980, 143p. for £300. He had it transported and Friedlander, Zelda, ed. Jan Smuts remembered: a centennial tribute. Cape Town: re-erected on his farm near Irene, Timmins, 1970, 104p. where it soon became the Smuts Haarhoff, T.J. Smuts the humanist: a personal reminiscence. Oxford: Blackwell, family’s spacious and well-loved 1970, 113p. permanent home. Hancock, William Keith. Smuts: fields of force. Cambridge: Cambridge University The enormous billiard room was Press, 1968, 589p. commandeered by the General as Hancock, William Keith. Smuts: the sanguine years, 1870-1919. Cambridge: his study, and it was here that he Cambridge University Press, 1962, 619p. housed his personal collection of books. These originally numbered Ingham, Kenneth. Jan Christian Smuts: the conscience of a South African. View of the high-ceilinged library Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, some 6 000 and spilled into the 1986, 284p. passage beyond. The many margin notes reveal that they were well used, Joseph, Joan. South African statesman: Jan Christiaan Smuts. Folkestone: Bailey, and the uniqueness of the collection is reflected by its wide-ranging subject 1970, 189p. matter. Further insight into the mind of Smuts as international politician, Kalley, Jacqueline A. Jan Christian Smuts: a bibliophile? Johannesburg: University of soldier, botanist, philosopher, and the man himself could be provided by an the Witwatersrand Library, 1985, 12p. examination of his books, the main focus of this booklet. Lean, Phyllis Scarnell. One man in his time: a pictorial review of the life of Jan Christian The full circle: Travels of the study Smuts. Johannesburg: [General Smuts War Veterans Foundation], 1964, 48p. In terms of Smuts’s will, on his death in 1950 his collection was bequeathed to Levi, N. Jan Smuts: being a character sketch of Gen. the Hon. J.C. Smuts, K.C., a South African university. The University of the Witwatersrand was selected M.L.A., Minister of Defence, Union of South Africa. London: Longmans, Green, as the recipient but the library remained undisturbed for a further four years 1917, 310p. until the death of his wife, Isie. Thereafter the quest for its security became Meiring, Piet. Jan Smuts die Afrikaner. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1974, 216p. imperative, owing to souvenir hunters and its vulnerability, given its rural Meiring, Piet. Smuts the patriot. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1975, 215p. location, should a fire break out. Millin, Sarah Gertrude. General Smuts. London: Faber and Faber, 1936, 2 vols. At that time, the University of the Witwatersrand lacked the resources to Smuts, J.C. Jan Christian Smuts. Cape Town: Heinemann and Cassell, 1952. 568p. house the study in a manner befitting its importance, and the books were likely to languish in storage. In a wise move, it was decided to house them Smuts, Jan Christian. Selections from the Smuts Papers, edited by W.K. Hancock temporarily in the Africana Museum at the Johannesburg Public Library. The and Jean van der Poel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966-1973. then Librarian, Mr R.F. Kennedy, gave the project the benefit of his expertise and 7 vols. had the material catalogued. Each book and pamphlet was recorded, together 12 Information Series: No 7 Information Series: No 7 1 Matters of the Mind The Library of Jan Christian Smuts book. Found too, on the shelves among Smuts’s books on Darwinism, plant with its exact shelf location, and and animal life are two little notebooks, which Smuts with his deep love of extensive photographs of the study nature obviously found worthy of retention. They are entitled Birds Seen at in its original location ensured a Rooikop, November 12-16 and December 4-6 1928, and Birds Seen at Irene faithful reproduction of the room October 31 1928 to January 7 1929, compiled by Arthur B Gillett and his son as it was at Doornkloof. A major A Nicolas Gillett, whose contributions are in his still rounded and unformed drawback was that the new room handwriting. A pretty bookmark still marks the page noting a Redbill and a was not high enough to reproduce Crowned Lapwing, together with their Latin names. the lofty dimensions of the original billiard room, and the open ceiling Conclusion with its timber roof trusses and This collection fuelled and enhanced purlins was missing. Smuts’s intellect and bears testimony to SA Institute of International Affairs, Jan Smuts his diverse interests. It reflects the man House, University of the Witwatersrand, and his fine mind, and we are fortunate Johannesburg that it remains as a reference point to one The study was destined for of South Africa’s finest sons. another move, this time to Jan Smuts House, headquarters of the South African Institute of International Affairs on the Procession following Smuts’s installation as Chancellor of Cambridge University, campus of the University of the June 1948 Witwatersrand. This building owed its inception to the Smuts Memorial Trust and was intended as a living memorial to General Smuts. The Smuts signing the United Nations Charter. Foyer, SA Institute of International Affairs, dimensions of the study were an Cpt Jannie Smuts Jnr to the right Wits Campus. Note bust of Jan Smuts. exact replica of the original billiard room and no detail was spared in duplicating the ceiling, woodwork and even the blinds on the doors. The study enchanted many visitors through the years, each with his or her own story to tell of the General. It was proclaimed South Africa’s first National Cultural Treasure in 1989. Once more, in 1995, the study was packed up for its final return home to Doornkloof where it belonged. The heart of the house View of the Library from the door, Smuts House Museum had been missing for 45 years and 2 Information Series: No 7 Information Series: No 7 11 Matters of the Mind The Library of Jan Christian Smuts Die Grosse Politik der Europaischen Kabinette 1871-1914, edited by Johan the house once more became Lepsius (Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, intact.
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