Scope and Contents Typescript and manuscript documents relating to West Africa, 127 pages. The papers were probably assembled by Gray for his proposed edition of Frances Moore's 'Travels into the inland parts of Africa' for the Hakluyt Society, which he was unable to complete due to illness. It is not known when they were compiled. There is an accompanying letter from A.T. Matson to D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 17 June 1975, and Simpson's reply of 18 June.1. Biographical note regarding Francis...

Content Description

Two photograph albums chronicling Wallis' period of employment with the colonial service and a folder of biographical information assembled by the donor.

Scope and Contents

Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises four small photograph albums and assorted loose photographs. The albums are labelled. The photographs have been grouped together loosely or in envelopes, labelled and arranged by year by R.F. Rainsford's daughter, Mrs Downend, prior to donating the material:1868-1919. Portraits of RFR and family.1910-11. Collection taken during Police work in 1911-13.1918. Kismayu during the Aulihan expedition 1917-1919. 1920. Kisumu jail; Nairobi Police...

Scope and Contents

Comprises:
1. ‘S.L. Kakungulu Report on Claims, 1924’: 30pp., map, includes report by John Gray (then District Magistrate, Mbale) into Kakungulu’s grievances, and claims against the administration, and related letters, 1924-5.
2. ‘Statements made by Kakungulu regarding his claims to land etc., November – 1924’: 27pp., consisting of notes by John Gray, signed statements by Kakungulu and other data.

Scope and Contents

Comprises: four notebooks assembled by Johnston on aspects of law, history and administration in Ceylon; letter-book containing regulations relating to Roman Catholics in Ceylon; copies of law officers and counsels' opinions on various colonial acts. Note that 'Notebook V', extract from statement concerning the arrival of Chalias in Ceylon (presented by Professor Lee alongside the rest of the collection and listed in Donald Simpson's 1975 manuscript catalogue) is missing.

Scope and Contents

Unpublished typescript memoirs of a Colonial Office and Commonwealth Relations Office official, covering his career from 1911 to 1967. With a forward by Sir Harry Batterbee. One of 100 duplicated copies prepared for presentation. 115pp.

Scope and Contents Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence of Stephen and papers relating to a life of Stephen written by Dr. Evelyn Christian Martin.

Scope and Contents

Comprises papers and printed reports collected during Nathan's tenure as Governor of Queensland and chancellor of the University of Queensland.

Scope and Contents

Paper submitted to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1884, but not apparently accepted. Comprises about 90 manuscript pages, with occasional pencil annotation. Relates to the territories 'northward if the Transvaal territory and Bechuanaland' in the period after the first Anglo-Boer War. Williams had entered the Colonial Service in 1884, and his first post was in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. In his later career, he was Governor of the Windward Islands and Governor of Newfoundland.

Scope and Contents Comprises 12 scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to Allardyce's career and the colonies he worked in, including photographs, programmes and ephemeral material. Some content relates to affairs in Aberdeen, where Allardyce had been educated. The scrapbooks relate to the following: 1-3 Fiji: 1882-4, 1895-1902, 1902-3; 4-6 Falkland Islands: 1908-9, 1909-13, 1914-18 (including the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914) and Tasmania: 1920-1; 7-8 Bahamas: 1915-17, 1918-19; 9...

Scope and Contents

A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.

Scope and Contents A collection of 126 family photographs, with an undated linking narrative illustrating personal matters and giving an account of the Raj. The typescript describes the association of the author's family with India from the 1890s, when her grandparents, the Wrenches, were in the country, up to her father's retirement. The final chapter, 'The end of 300 years in India' reflects on Indian independence.The photographs were taken by Redmond, Aileen and Hubert Burke, and others. Some are...

Scope and Contents

Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.

Scope and Contents

Material relating to Powell’s career in the South Pacific, including some letters and a cutting book on his expedition to New Guinea, and papers concerning his consularship in Samoa. Powell’s time in Samoa coincided with a period of imperial rivalry between America, Britain and Germany, as well as internal rivalry among indigenous leaders on the islands.