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Case, Ellen,Case, Nora Noel,Case, John James, “Case family collection inventory”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/14143

Title: Case family collection inventory
Description: This collection contains two diaries written by Ellen Case, wife of Rev. Philip Henry Case, describing their life in the service of the Anglican church from 1888-1894, as well as a volume containing copies of her letters home. The note books are in a fragile condition; they have been transcribed by her grandson, John James Case, who deposited the collection in Cory Library in December 2003, and the transcription in 2014. There are also six volumes of diaries (1944-1966) and a volume of poetry by her daughter, Nora Noel Case, born 27 December 1886. For a time Nora lived with her older brother Philip George Case, and her diaries describe their life on various farms, and subsequently as store keepers, in the Lower Albany area. She had trained as a school teacher. Her earlier diaries contain interesting details of day to day living and farming, and the hard physical work it entailed. Her later diaries describe social contacts in Barkly East, Bushman’s River Mouth and Queenstown, and as she was meticulous about recording weather, give an excellent overview of rainfall patterns at the time.
Subject: Eastern Cape, South Africa; Church of the Province of Southern Africa -- Missions; Farming -- Annecdotes
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020071
Creator: Case, Ellen,Case, Nora Noel,Case, John James
Type: Text
Extent: 2 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator: MS 20 011

Item sets: Cory Finding Aids & Selected Inventories

Media: vital_13462+SOURCEPDF+SOURCEPDF.0.pdf

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