 Bolstered by this success, the trustees decided to publish certain reports on the Cape by Governor Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes, and by the commissioner at the Cape, Baron Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff.However, the library's mandate did not include publishing archival documents so that a decision was taken to found a private society to deal with the management of the project.This led on 29 August to the first meeting of the 'Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents'.