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85 x 60 mm. duplicate of Y30468O/122.

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10 sheets.

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Evidence (170 pages) gathered by the commission during meetings with the chiefs and people of Kakata and Monrovia. The file includes an index.

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Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Evidence (100 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Evidence (60 pages) gathered by the commission.

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Diary (circa 180 pages) kept by Christy recording the investigative work of the commission and the composition of its report.

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A volume containing 36 architectural and landscape drawings in pencil and related media.

Subjects are:

The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961-1962 (4 drawings)

West Africa Tour 1968 (8 drawings)

Canada 1969 (19 drawings)

Jamaica 1969 (2 drawings)

Gibraltar 1985 and 1988 (3 drawings)

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File containing the commission's terms of reference and the evidence it gathered during its enquiry. It includes an index to the 102 items.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs (various dates, sizes and photographers) and slides with a few leaflets, a file of correspondence, and some title cards as described below. The collection appears to have been assembled chiefly for publicity purposes and there is a file of correspondence requesting photographic and other material. Some of the photographs are mounted on cards for display, but the majority are loose prints stored in folders. There are also a few albums. The main subjects are the...

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Papers written and collected by Christy during his tenure as Chairman of the Commission set up by the League of Nations. The other members of the Commission were Dr Charles Spurgeon Johnson, representing the United States, and the Hon. Arthur Barclay, a former President of Liberia.

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A collection of loose snapshots, measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm. These were presumably taken on a voyage to or from England. Brief captions appear on the backs. Photographer possibly J.C. Smith.

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Cuttings from British and African newspapers and journals concerning different parts of Africa, particularly South Africa. There is an index to part of the collection.

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A series of photographs of educational institutions in Liberia.

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The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.

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Includes material on Universities in countries outside the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Diaries, notes, letters, reports, publications and maps written or collected by Christy during his medical and zoological work in Scotland, Africa and India.

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The file (circa 280 pages) contains material related to the appointment of the commission, the definition of its terms of reference, the publication of its official report, and the response of the Liberian, British and American governments to its findings and recommendations.

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245 x 190 mm black and white photograph of Smedley with an unidentified Liberian diplomat.