Box CLX-A-25

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 Letters to Dr Robert Laws with matters arising.1. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. He asks Dr Law not to send copies of his translation. The Writer intends to 'feel hisown way into Manganja and cannot impose upon the community a mode of language with which he is not in full accord'. 21 January 1885. [David Clement Scott published his Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language in 1892].2. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. In order to...

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to Daniel S. Malekebu.1-10. The Malekebu Enquiry In 1919, Simon Malekubu and his wife had written from America to Daniel's sister, Mrs Ruth Lawrence, in Nyasaland, expressing their intention of coming home. This was at a time that natives were holding meetings to advocate a policy of 'Africa for the Africans'. The Governor of Nyasaland, believing Malekebu to be deeply imbued with doctrines similar to Chilembwe, Cheek and Branch, asked for an enquiry...

Scope and Contents 1. Letter from John W. Moir, Edinburgh. Addressed 'Dear Friend'. He describes a visit to Mwatyusa's village near the north end of Lake Nyasa and theelephant hunt that took place on the following day. This was requested by the Chief because the beasts had been damaging the gardens and tearing down their banana trees. March 1935.2. Letter from John W. Moir, Edinburgh. Addressed 'Dear Friend'. When John Moir and his brother first went out to Africa in 1877, the slave trade was 'a...

Scope and Contents Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations. 'Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa'. Talk given by George Shepperson to the joint meeting of Royal African and Royal Commonwealth Societies. 4 February 1971. Shortened account of the above. Mungo Park Bicentenary lecture: Selkirk, 8 September 1971. Statement by...

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Pitgaveny (pseudonym of Captain James Brander Dunbar): Reminiscences of his years in Central Africa.

An account by Hugh Macmillan of three visits to Pitgaveny prefaced by his explanation of how he first heard of Pitgaveny [Captain James Brander Dunbar], and how he came to visit him to visit him at Pitgaveny House near Elgin.

With 2 notes from Pitgaveny to Hugh Macmillan (1967).

Scope and Contents Thomas Price: Correspondence, 1951-1975.1-13. Mostly letters to George Shepperson from Tom Price, one-time lecturer in African Studies at Glasgow University, student of African languages and co-author with George Shepperson of the book, Independent African. The problems of African travel have hindered his researches and a lack of Nyasa material in archives has disappointed. Later letters show that his interests lie in the accumulation of African...

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 Correspondence relating to collections of the letters of Cecil Rhodes.1. Rhodes-Rosebery correspondence recently discovered at Barnbougle. Alan Bell has taken the precaution of making Xerox copies and Ian Cunningham has them safely in a parcel for Professor Shepperson. The National Library would like to have the letters, but a decision will have to wait until the whole question of the books and archives remaining at Dalmeny is resolved. He hopes Professor Shepperson would find...

Scope and Contents George Shepperson: Articles, Addresses, Talks, Letters. 'Malawi – Today and Yesterday'. ND 'Africans studied in Prison' The Scotsman, 17 November 1960 'The Development of Nationalism in Nyasaland'. Aberdeen University, 21 October 1961. 'Abolitionism and African Political Thought'. Seminar on African Studies, University...