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In 1980, the University of the Witwatersrand received a substantial bequest from an Anglican priest, Canon C. T. Wood. Through the intervention of Wood, the Department of Historical Papers became home to a substantial collection of Church of the Province records and in the wake of his death the Department welcomed a wealth of additional church material as well as Wood’s personal papers. These included diaries, lectures, articles, memoranda, notebooks, photographs, sermons and letters addressed to Wood. In addition, the University received a cash sum, which still sustains many special archival projects to this day.
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Reid, G. (2002). ‘The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present’: Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa. In: Hamilton, C., Harris, V., Taylor, J., Pickover, M., Reid, G., Saleh, R. (eds) Refiguring the Archive. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8_12
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