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Manuscript diaries written by Sir William Himbury relating to his trips to West Africa in late 19th and early 20th century. Himbury travelled in his capacity as a superintendent of cables and telegrams initially, and later on behalf of the British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) to gther intelligence on cotton growing and trade. There is also an article on Empire cotton (1905), manuscript notes on the Egba peoples and a folder of biographical notes assembled by the donor.

Scope and Contents The label on the front board states that this was J. H. Middleton's notebook in 1856. This would have been when JHM was age ten. However, the notebook is filled with copious notes and illustrated when JHM was an adult, starting from age twenty. The notebook is a mix of notes taken from reading upon the subject of Classical art and archaeology, visiting the British Museum, attending lectures such as one on Ephesus at the Royal Institution in 1875, and in situ measured drawings made while...

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Memorandum and associated papers concerning the West Indian cotton industry; proposals for the constitutional reform of the Leeward and Windward Islands and other confidential papers.