Stand and deliver

Stand and deliver

Publications & Reports

Printed newsprint glued on paper

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One cut out column of newsprint text pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping.

An original cutting of a Victorian article entitled "Stand and Deliver!", "The Swellendam Distress", and "Riversdale", respectively. The first two articles are by BJ van de Sandt de Villiers. Published in Het Volksblad (date unknown [but given its fonds number, presumably published in or after 1886]). A pencil note on the mount reads "Not by Bleek, but amended by him to be by van der Sand de Villiers" (this is further indicated by the "V. d. S. d. V." initials written below the first two sections of text). The date of this column is unknown, as it is unclear whether it came from the same edition as the previous entry (D1.8.74) despite its label as D1.8.75. Given that the Het Volksblad (D1.8.1-75) articles are numbered chronologically in the BC151 fonds, this item likely also dates to after WHI Bleek's (08/03/1827-17/08/1875) death. If it was "amended" by WHI Bleek for VdSdV and only published c. 1886 (±11 years after Bleek's death), it is more likely to date from an earlier time than retain its journalistic relevance for a decade. BJ van de Sandt Junior (prior to 1847) or BJ van de Sandt de Villiers (b. 1826 - d. 1878), the son of PJA de Villiers, was adopted by the husband of his father's childless sister, Bernardus Josephus van de Sandt (1799-1850) (Anna Smith in Clair, 1973: 48, 51). VdSdV was the publisher of Het Volksblad and the adoptive son of the Superintendent of the Government Printing Office (1832-1844 [when it closed]) (Anna Smith in Clair, 1973: 26, 59). LJ Picton (1969: 19) maintains that BJ van de Sandt, who started two papers called Het Volksblad, left his post of Superintendent in 1837. VdSdV restarted Het Volksblad in 1856 and enagged his nephew CC de Villiers and, de Villiers' brother-in-law, Jan F Cilliers (who edited it from 1863 to 1872) (Picton, 1969: 39).