Box CLX-A-24

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Correspondence mostly relating to the 1915 Chilembwe Uprising, and Joseph Booth

Scope and Contents Walter Cockerill, George Shepperson and others (including Dr Thomas Price): 1951 (numbered A1–7) 1952 (numbered B1–17) 1953 (numbered C1–12) 1954 (numbered D1–31. D3 is a Warrant for the arrest of W. B. Cockerill, Esq Signed by the District Resident, Blantyre. 16 April 1915) 1955 (numbered E1–4) 1956 (numbered F1–11. F10 is an envelope containing 6 cards (USA) and F11 is a group photograph)Many letters concern the Chilembwe Rising of 1915, and Joseph...

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Bound typescript, "Sources for the Study of Religion in Malawi". Edited by H. W. Langworthy. The majority of the letters were written by Charles Vincente Domingo (ca. 1875 – late 1950s) to Joseph Booth in Capetown, and then sent on with reports by Booth to the Seventh Day Baptist officials in Plainfield, New Jersey.

With a handwritten dedication from Langworthy to Shepperson: "To Sam from Harry. Something more to put on the map one whose reputation you started to revive".

Scope and Contents Correspondence: Josephine Cunnington Edwards and George Shepperson.1. Letter from George Shepperson, University of Edinburgh, to Mrs Josephine Cunnington Edwards, Broadview Academy, Illinois, USA. George Shepperson introduces himself. He has heard that Mrs Edwards spent nine years with the Malamula Mission in Nyasaland and must consequently have interests similar to his. He outlines his plan for a book on the Nyasaland 1915 Rising and gives some indication of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including...

Scope and Contents Concerns Rolf Gardiner's account of his work in Malawi, his conservation experiments, schemes that were lost, and his writings.10. Rolf Gardiner has had his records of work, and impressions of Central Africa in particular from 1947, put together and excerpts of the more interesting, descriptive and historical passages typed. Describes his frustration over constructive plans for land use and landscape treatment of the region between Chileka and Blantyre. 13 January...

Scope and Contents An account (incomplete) by Margaret Gardiner, Rolf's sister, of the fortunes of the Nsawazi Estate from the time it came into the hands of the Gardiner family, through periods of natural disasters, crop failure, labour shortages, financial stress, political unrest, world wars, federation, and independence.She recalls her brother's plan to create a model of organic development in Nyasaland and prevent the land suffering from squatter encroachment on a land of impoverished soil and...

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Certificate of Claim: HM Commissioner and Consul-General to Harry Edwin Pettit, Nsawazi (Ntshima) Estate, Ruo District, Shire Province, British Central African Protectorate. Blantyre, 31 December 1892. Land Department, Blantyre, 7 February 1916.

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Rolf Gardiner expresses his appreciation of Williamson's books and describes the emotions they arouse. Comments upon the poets of the war generation and those that followed.

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5-6. Appeal for the release of Rudolf Hess. He asks Henry Williamson to lend his weight to a petition. 4 and 5 February 1967.

Scope and Contents 1. Invitation to Mr Rolf Gardiner to a buffet lunch and meeting held by the Royal African Society jointly with the Royal Commonwealth Society. Speaker: Professor George Shepperson. 2 February 1967.2. Company Report: The Nchima Tea and Tung [oil extracted from crushed nuts] Estates Ltd. Mr H. Rolf Gardiner's Review. "East Africa and Rhodesia", 3 January 1957.3-8. Newspaper Cuttings. Rolf Gardiner's letters to the papers relating to ecology and conservation....