Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
African Studies: papers relating to [Black people], 1896-1971
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/20/1
Scope and Contents
File entitled "African Studies - Papers relating to [Black People]" (the original term, used until the late 1960s, is no longer appropriate to refer to people of black African origin. Outdated terms are used throughout the file).1-2. Correspondence (copies): Sir Harry Johnstone, HM Commissioner for British Central Africa, London, and Dr J. Albert Thorne, Edinburgh. Concerns a plan by Dr Thorne to establish a settlement of West Indian Negroes in Central Africa. 12 and 16 November...
Dates:
1896-1971
C. L. R. James, 1963-1968
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/CLRJ
Scope and Contents
C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James - Correspondence, Speeches, Bibliography.
Letter from C. L. R. James to Professor George Shepperson, Edinburgh. He talks of his project to write memoirs of George Padmore, and thanks George Shepperson for his review of his writing. He believes a good review is valuable and this one had a great effect among the people of the University of Ibadan. At present, he is...
Dates:
1963-1968
Chilembwe letters, c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)
File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/4
Scope and Contents
This file contains Chilembwe letters dating from 1900 to 1915 (copies).
Letters in the Zomba Archives (9) (with covering letter, 17 March 1965). Writers: Chilembwe, Peters, Bismarck. Includes Minutes of the National Industrial Union Meetings, 15 June 1909 and 14 August 1909.
Letters from British East Africa. Sent as 'News from the Field' to the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board of...
Dates:
c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)
Correspondence between George Shepperson and Emily Booth Langworthy, her daughter-in-law Esther and her son Harry, 1913 (copy), 1950-1971
File
Identifier: Coll-210/2/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between George Shepperson and Emily Booth Langworthy, her daughter-in-law Esther and her son Harry, concerning Joseph Booth and letters and other items kept by the Langworthys. Most original Booth items were removed by Shepperson and filed separately, but the material includes a copy of a 1913 letter commending Booth and the British Christian Union.
Dates:
1913 (copy), 1950-1971
Correspondence concerning the John W. Moir papers, 1935-1980
Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/JWM
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...
Dates:
1935-1980
Correspondence – D. K. Chisiza, 1956-1972
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/21/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, Pamphlets, Cuttings – Chisiza.
Letter D. K. Chisiza, Blantyre, to George Shepperson, Edinburgh. Expresses his appreciation of what George Shepperson has done for African Nationalism, asks for pamphlets and photographs. Nyasaland African Congress is prepared to pay. 28 October 1956.
Letter George Shepperson to D. K. Chisiza Encloses a copy of the article for which Chisiza...
Dates:
1956-1972
Correspondence: Dr Banda, Professor Shepperson and others, 1952-1977
File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/8C
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: Dr Banda, Professor Shepperson and others.1. Letter: Thomas Price, Glasgow, to George Shepperson, Edinburgh. He thanks George Shepperson for the transcript of Banda's contribution to origins. Considers it will need a good deal of support "before it becomes plausible". It raises various questions about the "Movement" and leaves the feeling that Banda is a bit confused over sequence. 28 February 1952.2. George Shepperson to the Rev H B. Make,...
Dates:
1952-1977
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Orton and Vera Chirwa, 1952-1971
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/21/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Orton and Vera Chirwa.
Letter from Orton Chirwa to George Shepperson. He thanks Mr Shepperson for the monograph on John Chilembwe and assures him that he is doing his best to gather more material. Names some who may help their research and complete the picture from the African viewpoint. Gives an unfavourable description of the European settler of 1910. Chirwa...
Dates:
1952-1971
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Rolf Gardiner, and others, 1971-1983
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RG(B)
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...
Dates:
1971-1983
Correspondence: Higher Education, 1962-1964
File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents: Professor George Shepperson; Dr H. Kamuzu Banda; The Hon M. W. K. Chiume; Richard H. Pear; Dr W. D. Lamont; Professor D. B. Horn; Professor Denys Hay; Christopher Fyfe; Betty Whitelaw; Sir Charles Morris; Charles H. Stewart; Sir Christopher Cox; Vaughn DeLong; Tom Creighton; Marjorie S. Belcher; F. P. Dunhill; I. C. M. Maxwell; Roy Prideaux; Frank Untermyer; Andrew Ross; The Principal of Edinburgh University.Topics: Proposed university at Livingstonia; Commission...
Dates:
1962-1964