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Papers relating to ELS's chairmanship (and later life presidency) of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, Gold Coast [later Ghana], and its allied companies, including the gold-mining Bibiani (1927) Limited, the Ashanti-Obuasi Trading Company and the West African Finance Corporation. Includes papers on the economic and political situation in Ghana.

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Journal of ELS's visit to South Africa and the mines of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, Gold Coast [later Ghana].

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Subjects include Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Subjects include Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, and also including the galley proof of an article by ELS on Cyprus.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, General Charles de Gaulle and the invitation to Archbishop Makarios to attend the Lambeth Conference.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings, mainly on business issues and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including Charles de Gaulle and Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on subjects including Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited and its takeover by Lonrho.

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Cuttings from the Ghanaian press on Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings on ELS's visit to Ghana, and the opening of the new main gates to the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited mine.

Scope and Contents The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...