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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Tas, Adam ___ 1668-1722 ___ Dutch ___ farmer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Tas was an early Dutch freeman who emigrated to South Africa and started a farm in the Stellenbosch district. He is best known for the part he played in the conflicts with Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, and his fight against the corruption of officials and their misuse of trading monopolies. His diary describes the life of the emerging Cape gentry and his own arrest as a ringleader of malcontents. He was imprisoned for a year. To celebrate his release, Tas named his farm Libertas. Today, the property is owned by Distell, a major wine and spirit producer. In 1911, a large fragment of Adam Tas's diary came to light at the National Library of South Africa, and subsequently the trustees of the library raised funds to publish it in 1914. The discovery also prompted the formation of the Van Riebeeck Society in 1918 to publish primary sources on South African history. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1705-1706 ___ political social farming WEB TEXT LINKS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS National Archives and Records Serviceof South Africa ___ may to be here SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Diary of Adam Tas, 1705-1706 May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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