Collection of twenty-four loose prints (including eight duplicates), mostly modern copies of contemporary photographs of the career of Charles Stokes (1852-1895) collected in connection with the biography by Anne Luck: 'Charles Stokes in Africa' (1972). There are also fourteen modern copy negatives.

Material for a biography of Stokes was gathered by H.B. Thomas, but in 1961 he handed it to Anne Luck, then resident in Uganda, who undertook research on the spot, including interviews with Stokes' widow Nyanjala (who died in 1968, aged about 97) (see photos 8 and 24). Copies of numbers 1 and 3 were obtained from the CMS. H.B. Thomas continued research into the aftermath of Stokes' will and established contact with C.B. Sherratt, nephew of Ellen Stokes; he lent photographs 21 and 22, though it was later established that they did not, as he had believed, represent Nellie Stokes. The book had been sent to the publisher when, in 1969, Nellie Stokes’ daughter Marie Cooper, visited London and allowed a scrap-book, some letters and photographs in her possession to be borrowed and copied. This is the source of numbers 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17. It was too late to alter the illustrations in the book (8, 1, 3, 22), but 5 was used as a cover illustration, and an addendum derived from Miss Cooper's material added on pages 199-203 of the book. Number 15 was given to the library of the RCS after its publication.