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215 x 166 mm.

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99 x 80 mm. A view looking down the slipway as the steamer 'Speke' slides on to Lake Kioga, with crowds watching the event at the left of the print.

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140 x 90 mm. A view from a lawn at high altitude, of mountains in the distance.

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82 x 58 mm. A view of hills from a lawn.

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91 x 113 mm. A full-length profile of a Lendu woman standing in front of a row of mud huts with conical thatched roofs; her baby, strapped to her back, wears a curious conical hat as a sunshade. The Lendu, a Sudanic race, inhabit the Bunyoro country of Uganda.

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59 x 42 mm. A view showing Africans gathered round the corpse of a leopard waving spears at the body: 'The villagers are dancing and vilifying him and all his relations'.

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Glossy 56 mm. contact print with negative.

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150 x 110 mm. A view showing a sleeping, emaciated man in the terminal stage of sleeping sickness. Christy (1903) describes how this man was carried from his hut without awakening and how all the other members of his family were in a similar condition.

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A letter to an unnamed correspondent concerning adding 'Victoria Nile or' before 'Somerset River' on a map shortly to be published, presumably in Baker's 'The Albert N'Yanza', originally published in 1864. The map in the original volume is marked 'R Somerset or Victoria Nile'. The recipient may have been Stephen William Silver (1819-1905), a friend of Baker's, to whom other letters given by Sir Harry Wilson to the R.C.S. in 1916 were addressed.

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Reports on the revolt of soldiers in Bunyoro.

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Prominent subjects include the extent of Bell's powers as Commissioner of Uganda; descriptions of officials, visitors, and African leaders; Bell's social life, recreation and health; attempts to encourage the development of the railways and water transportation; the cultivation of cotton and rubber; accounts of the sleeping sickness epidemic; and descriptions of Entebbe, Kampala and other places he visited (60 sheets).

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These letters record Bell’s tour of southern and western Uganda, including visits to the kingdoms of Ankole and Toro. They describe the terrain, natural history, African peoples and European missionaries he encountered during his travels (28 sheets).

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Subjects include financial estimates, building plans and the opening of Government House; entertaining and visitors; the hurricane insurance scheme; development of railways, roads, and a new port for Kampala; support for the cotton industry; visits to a Sleeping Sickness camp and an appeal for relief funds in Britain; the outbreak of famine; a visit to the CMS King’s School at Budo; a tour of the eastern provinces of the Protectorate; and a visit to British East Africa (67 sheets).

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Copies of three letters from Satwant Singh Suman to David Le Breton and Rachel Rowe describing his father's emigration from India to East Africa and his career in the East African Railways.

Scope and Contents This file begins in Sept. 1934 with Benson’s employment by East African Concessions Ltd prospecting for gold in western Kenya near Kakamega. He was based at camps at Kibiri, Esikongo and Chebutubu. Photographs documenting the camps and Benson’s work may be found at RCMS 364/2/1. In Oct. 1935, Benson was transferred to Tanganyika, prospecting in the Sanza Concession near Mwanza. During 1936 he was employed as a diamond driller near Geita. In Dec. 1937 Benson joined Gold Coast...

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Two frank and informal letters written from Mumia's, 26 June 1896 (18 pages) and 25 July 1896 (11 pages), on the outward and return journey to Nandi, including comments on administrative matters, personnel and political and religious problems in Uganda. There is an undated transcript of the first letter. The papers are accompanied by correspondence with D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, regarding the collection, 1965.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...

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Showing the lighter moored at a pier on Lake Kioga.

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105 x 80 mm. Showing two unidentified European officials standing beneath the stern of the lighter, with uniformed Ugandan crewmen in the background.

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100 x 72 mm. One of several prints. Showing the body of animals lying where they were shot

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70 x 87 mm.

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88 x 87 mm. Showing Bell's lion cubs seated on the ground.

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84 x 82 mm. Showing Bell's two pet lion cubs on the steps of Government House, Entebbe.

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88 x 88 mm. A dark print showing Bell's two pet lion cubs seated on a lawn, probably in the garden of Government House, Entebbe.

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Showing Bell playing with his two pet lion cubs on the lawn of Government House, Entebbe.