THE RECORD

44 pages, tied with thread and housed in a specially made cloth folder, titled gilt on upper cover. These pages are usually missing from the original copies and are especially rare.

From the preface of the facsimile reprint of THE RECORD by Anna H. Smith she states that at first Government aid was available, but because of opposition from the influential Exeter House group and the SA Commercial Advertiser, financial support was withdrawn in July 1839. By means of public subscription it was possible to continue for a while, but as is evident from the “Circular” to the subscribers dated 5 October and appended to Correspondence between Donald Moodie Esq. and the Rev Philip (A.S. Robertson, 1841) sufficient support was not forthcoming. It would therefore appear that THE RECORD ceased after March 1842, if the note on page 65 of Part 111 has been correctly interpreted.

The note reads: the publication of the CAPE RECORDS was discontinued (October 8 1841) from the reasons stated in a circular notice to subscribers published with the Editor's Correspondence with the Rev J. Phillip. The result of that notice, having been an increase of subscribers, and an application from the Cape Town Municipality and the Committee of Subscribers to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to authorise the Colonial Government to increase its subscription – publication has been resumed and will, circumstances permitting, be continued until the result of that application reaches the Colony, March 1842.