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Commission Reports and related items, 1916; 1951

 File — Box: CLX-A-20
Identifier: Coll-490/14/3

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A. 1-12

  1. Report of the Commission appointed by HE the Governor to enquire into various matters and questions concerned with the Native Rising within the Nyasaland Protectorate. Accompanied by notes and reports. Information collected by F. M. Withers for an article but passed to Professor Shepperson who is writing a book on the history of the native rising. F. M. Withers no longer proposes to write the article. [correspondence]. Blantyre, 5 November 1951.

B.

  1. Memo relating to the Report. Prepared for the Foreign Mission Committees of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church by the Rev Dr Laws, Livingstonia, and the Rev Dr Hetherwick, Blantyre *. [* see 9]
  2. Letter Dr Laws [?] to Governor General Nyasaland. Zomba, 14 March 1916.
  3. Dr Laws' protest to the Legislative Council.
  4. HE the Governor's reply to 2. Zomba 15 March 1916.
  5. Letter Dr Laws, Blantyre, to the Rev Alexander Hetherwick, Edinburgh. 22 March 1916.
  6. Copy correspondence between the Rev Dr Ogilvie, Convenor of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, and A. Steel Maitland, Esq. MP, Under-Secretary for the Colonies. 1916
  7. Copy letter from A. Steel Maitland to Dr Ogilvie. Downing Street, 4 August 1916.
  8. Proposed report by the General Assembly.
  9. 'The Romance of Blantyre'. How Livingstone's dream came true. Rev Alexander Hetherwick.

Dates

  • Creation: 1916; 1951

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English

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