National English Literary Museum
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National English Documentation Centre
Began in 1972 as a project founded and sponsored by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA) to collect source material which was to form the Thomas Pringle Collection for English in Africa. This collection became the nucleus of the independent National English Documentation Centre, established 1974 after successfully negotiating with the Human Sciences Research Council and the National Documentation Centre for Afrikaans Literature there for the transferral of all English literary documents in its holdings to Grahamstown. André de Villiers became the first director.
NELM
Gazetted as a declared Cultural Institute in 1980, it was then renamed the National English Literary Museum (NELM) in 1982. Materials collected and conserved by the museum include monographs, criticism, manuscripts, correspondence, proofs, photographs, recordings and personalia connected with writers of English in South Africa. NELM's major collections are: the papers of Thomas Pringle, Roy Campbell, Lionel Abrahams, James Ambrose Brown, Dennis Brutus, Guy Butler, Stuart Cloete, Jack Cope, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Athol Fugard, Leon Gluckman, Joy Packer and Barney Simon. Rhodes University declared NELM an associated research institution in 1981. The research and library resources of NELM are available for consultation.
Sources
Malcolm Hacksley, Rhodes Calendar 1996. Rhodes Univ, Grahamstown.
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