Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Agreements, circulars and other material, c 1891-1923
File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/9
Scope and Contents
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 ...
Dates:
c 1891-1923
Ankole-Watusi Cattle, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/777
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a herd of Ankole-Watusi cattle in northern Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Artefacts, early 20th century, 1960s
Series — Box CLX-A-33: Series Coll-490/AR
Identifier: Coll-490/AR
Scope and Contents
This series contains a Witch Doctor outfit and other African artefacts bequeathed by Douglas James Guthrie to George Shepperson at his death in 1975, and sent to Shepperson by Douglas's wife Jean in 1976. Includes labels by Douglas Guthrie.
Kiondo. Woven baskets made of fibre from the migio plant by Kikuyu woman at Weithaga, Kenya. One small and one large basket.
"Bones" (in wood) used...
Dates:
early 20th century; 1960s
Booth correspondence, 1896-1914
File — Box CLX-A-22: Series Coll-490/18; Series Coll-490/19
Identifier: Coll-490/19/2
Scope and Contents
Booth correspondence (copies and transcripts):A1 – A40: Letters to Joseph Booth from various writers, 1911–1912. Notes: no. 1 to Mrs Booth; nos. 17* and 32 from Charles Domingo (no. 17 Includes a note on Libelezi Sabbath Conference, 26 August 1911); no. 21 from John Chilembwe.B1 – B5: Letters from Joseph Booth, 1906–1912: to Simon Muhango; Naoroji; Pastor Timon Achriwa; Joint Committee.C1 – C3:...
Dates:
1896-1914
Bound typescript entitled "Letters of Charles Domingo", 1910-1914 (dates of originals)
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/22/COR2
Scope and Contents
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".
Dates:
1910-1914 (dates of originals)
Cattle Essexvale, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/468
Scope and Contents
Photograph of [Nguni] cows and a calf in a field in Essexvale [Rhodesia] (now known as Esigodini, Zimbabwe) in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
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)
Commission Reports and related items, 1916; 1951
File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/3
Scope and Contents
Report of the Commission appointed by HE the Governor to enquire into various matters and questions concerned with the Native Rising within the Nyasaland Protectorate. Accompanied by notes and reports. Information collected by F. M. Withers for an article but passed to Professor Shepperson who is writing a book on the history of the native rising. F. M. Withers no longer proposes to write the article....
Dates:
1916; 1951
Correspondence about and copies of material relating to Booth in the Lesotho government archives, 1970-1971 (originals: 1914-1915)
File
Identifier: Coll-210/2/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about and copies of material relating to Booth in the Lesotho government archives, the material on Booth refers to his activities in then Basutholand, his previous activities in Nyasaland, his potential connection to the Chilembwe rising and his expulsion from Southern Africa.
Dates:
1970-1971 (originals: 1914-1915)
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