Agreements, circulars and other material, c 1891-1923

Agreements, circulars and other material, including: copy in Booth’s hand of his father John Booth’s account (of 1870) of his early life; copies of an article by Joseph Booth ‘The Greatest Will in the World - A Plea for Missionary Enterprise’ setting out his aims for the missions in Africa (c 1891); copy in Booth’s hand of a petition to the Bechuanaland Deputy Commissioner (1890) by Lobengula; circulars from the Zambesi Industrial Mission (1893-1895); editions of the Central African Planter (1895-1897); agreement between the Nyasa Industrial Mission and Booth regarding transfer of land in Nyasaland (1897); pamphlet by Booth ‘Why I abandoned Sunday Keeping’ (1898); letter from Bessie Moir referring to Booth (1900); note to Annie Booth about supplies (1901); deed transferring land at Blantyre (1903); printed list of Britain’s Native African Tribes (1903); receipt for payment by the American Sabbath Tract Society for property in Cape Town (1910); record sheets of various Church of Christ churches in Blantyre (1911); handwritten letter from a church in Nyasaland about the Seventh Day Baptist investigation into Booth (1912); advertisement for lectures by Booth (1912); issues of the African Sabbath Recorder (1912); circular and appeal from the British Christian Union (1913); printed letter by Peter Nyambo, ‘Peter’s Plaint’, regarding Booth (1913); ‘Native Petition to the King’ (1914); assignment of land at Blantyre to Booth (1914); copy of an agreement between Booth and Chief Molapo, Basutholand concerning the transfer of land (1915); The Fellowship Songbook (c 1915); circulars and appeals regarding the British African Congress (1915-1916); receipt for money paid for land at Llandudno, South Africa (1923); and a note by Booth on baptism (n.d).