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File 18: Research Papers relating to Diaries and Original Material, 1868-1966

 Series — Box: CLX-A-22
Identifier: Coll-490/18

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Research papers relating to diaries and original material.

  1. [not in box as of 10/06/2024] Notebook: Inside are two letters (copies) from Sarah B. Lewis, a friend of Miss Delaney and R. M. Miller, to the Epworth League7th St ME Church, Lorain, Ohio. 1. Dated 1910; 2. No date. Also a letter to Miss Miller from E. B. Delaney, 2 April 1910, and another to Miss Delaney, 3 October 1909. Notebook sent by R. M. Miller, Colombus, Ohio, USA, to George Shepperson.
  2. [not in box as of 10/06/2024] Description of Karonga by Charles Stuart, Ekwendeni [photocopy], 1885-1933.
  3. Extracts: 'Chiradzulo Monthly Reports', 1911-1913, Zomba Archive.
  4. Bannister Diaries: letter concerning them from the Rev G. E. Barr, Church of Christ, Gloucester, 21 August 1957.
  5. Letter: J. B. Davey, Natal Union of South Africa, 10 October 1959. The only diaries he had were written at the time when he was a member of The Royal Society Commission studying sleeping sickness, near Moera Mission, and of a trip down Lake Nyasa, searching for Glossina palpales. They are referred to in a book by Professor Davies of Makewera and Dr Gelfand of Salisbury. He offers to lend photographs
  6. Letter: The Winifred Holtby Papers are available for consultation at the Central Library, Kingston-upon-Hull, 2 June 1960.
  7. Oxford Colonial Records Project. Letter to Professor Shepperson from Margery Perham and Freddie Madden Nuffield College, Oxford, 28 June 1963. With reply 23 July 1963. 'Operation Rescue' J. J. Towney. Aims and results achieved so far. Report for 1963.
  8. Diaries etc. kept by Lt Col Robert Gardner Warton, 1872-1898. Letter: E. A. Warton to Associated Book Publishers Ltd. She asks if they would be interested. 15 March 1966. Letter: Associated Book Publishers to Professor Shepperson. Ask if E. A. Warton's letter is worth following up. Signed 'Rex'. 16 March 1966.
  9. Letter: Jane Linden, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, to Professor Shepperson. 16 December 1968. Includes a copy of a passage in the Blantyre Mission Diary dated 23 January 1915 - 2 February 1915.
  10. Material about the Rev. Charles Stuart at the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland. Lent by John Thomson, Lauder. Correspondence – Professor Shepperson, Dr W. O. Petrie, John Thomson. 1982-1986.
  11. Captain Luke Norman's Diary, 1868.
  12. Pages of a Diary, copied from the MacKinnon Papers, 1877. With covering letter of 5 August 1865. 'A Hunting Trip to Mozambique'.
  13. Christmas Day on Lake Nyasa, 1876. Printed.
  14. Booklet: African Boys and Girls, E. A. Scott, 1887.
  15. Booklet: The Women of East Central Africa [? E. A. Scott].

Dates

  • Creation: 1868-1966

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

Open, although the reader will be required to sign a Data protection form to consult the 1980s correspondence. Please contact the repository in advance.

Full Extent

4 folders

Full Extent

5(?) envelopes

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