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Further visits by Dr Hastings Banda to Britain, 1985, 1988

 File — Box: CLX-A-19
Identifier: Coll-490/12/8G

Scope and Contents

Further visits by His Excellency the Life President, Ngwazi to Britain. 1985 and 1988. [9 items]

1. Menu: Dinner at Edinburgh Castle. 20 April 1985.

2. Notes relating to Dr Banda's visit to the Commonwealth Institute, Scotland, and the presentation to him of a stool which belonged to John Moir. 9 June 1988.

3. Invitation to the buffet lunch in the Commonwealth Institute, 8 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. June 1988.

4. Print of Dr Hastings K. Baqnda's article on the two Edinburgh men, John W. Moir (Mandala) and Frederick L. Moir (Chindevu), pioneers of the African Lakes Company [Originally the Livingstonia Central Africa Company of 1878] in Malawi. Leaflet issued at the Commonwealth Institute on the occasion of the return to Malawi of John Moir's African chief's stool, gave the words spoken by Miss Maitland Moir (John Moir's daughter), when she gave it to Professor Emeritus George Shepperson, now Chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Commonwealth Institute.

5. Letter: George Shepperson to HE, the Life President of Malawi. Handed, together with the stool and a copy of the first paperback edition of the book Independent African, to Dr Banda. Edinburgh, 7 June 1988.

6. Speech. 7 June 1988.

7. Bound Programme of visit.

8. Newspaper cuttings (2). Dr Banda's visit to St Andrews University..

Dates

  • Creation: 1985, 1988

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English

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9 items

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