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Colour postcard depicting Rhodes as a mouse in a cage labelled Kimberley, being watched by the Afrikaaner General Cronje in the guise of a cat; published in Berlin by Eysler

Letters and telegrams received, arranged by the original subject headings as follows: Administrators [Rhodesia], 1897-1902 Cape Colony, 1890-1900 Charter (Matabeleland

Letter books, 1897-1902; telegrams, 1893-1903; index, including for collection MSS. Afr. s. 228).

Black and white photograph of the Residency, Kigoma (mid 1920s); five illustrated Christmas menu cards with guests signatures (1923-1924 and 1927-1929); watercolour of Kigoma Bay, Lake Tanganyika, from the verandah by Sir Alison Russell (1923).

Letter, with typescript partial translation, from Botha to 'Louis', written in London during a tour of European capitals by Boer generals following the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, 1902. The letter discusses negotiations with Chamberlain about possible changes to the Treaty, etc..

Letters home as administrative officer in Northern Nigeria, and while serving in the German East Africa campaign.

19 autograph letters from Mary Kingsley to Professor and Mrs. E.B. Tylor dealing with various aspects of ju-ju and fetishism in West Africa.

Resident's copy of a map of the Cameroons with road projects marked in ink (1940); map of Cameroons Plantations (1945).

Memoirs and text of talks on experiences in the Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria and the British Cameroons, 1928-1956.

Experiences in the Education Service in Tanganyika, with related reports, memoranda and other papers, 1936-1950, [1978-1984].

diaries rel to East African Campaign and Somaliland expedition

Ephemeral biographical material, [1871-1948] Correspondence, 1892-1945 Publications and related material, and lecture notes, 1889-1941 Papers relating to The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood

Papers, 1906-1921, including contract, correspondence and two passenger lists; typescript translation of the private wartime diary of Lieut. Nothnagel, 30th July-27th September 1914, [Central Africa, [mainly?] Cameroon].

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, etc., relating to Colonial Administrative Service in Nigeria and the Cameroons (1935-1945); and in the Western Pacific High Commission (1946-1951), including notes on the history, customs, commerce and development of the Western Pacific High Commission territories.

Journals of tours of administrative service in Nigeria and Cameroon (1932-1948). Also, reports and papers relating to service in Nigeria (1933-1935), Sierra Leone (1950-1956), and Southern Cameroon (1960-1961).

Correspondence, reports, photographs, cinefilms, etc., relating to administrative service in Nigeria, and to work as Income Tax Adviser to the Government in Gambia.

Smith's autobiography of service as an Administrative Officer in Cameroon and Eastern Nigeria (1924-1955) entitled "The Last Time", with related reports, papers and letters home.

Papers as Resident in Calabar Province, Nigeria, including reports on the history of Native Administration, on Owerri Province, native court reports and intelligence reports on the Cameroons campaign (1914-1915).

Diaries, correspondence, copies of despatches, reports, press cuttings etc. relating to Harper's work in the Gold Coast (1914-1920); papers relating to St. Helena and Ascension Island - mainly extracts/notes copied from other works and gathered by Harper in preparation for writing a book - (1922-1934); papers relating to Ashanti law and history (1904-1922) and to the Golden Stool of Ashanti (1921-1935).

Photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings relating to mining activities in South Africa, 1871-1929 Telegrams, newspaper cuttings, photographs, etc. concerning the Jameson Raid, 1896 Maps, correspondence, etc. relating to the South African War, [1899-1906] Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, cartoons, etc. relating to political career, 1903-1915 Visitors' book from Farrar's farm during the South African War, with cartoon sketches, postcards, etc., 1900-1902 Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to social and family activities, including accounts of a journey to the Victoria Falls, 1900-1919 Correspondence, photographs, telegraphs, newspaper cuttings, etc. concerning field of service in World War One and his subsequent death and funeral, including household inventory, will and related papers, 1909-1975 Biographical notebooks, c1915-1919 Personal and family photographs, c1864-1920 Newspaper cuttings concerning members of the Farrar family and Benoni, the township founded by Sir George Farrar, 1904-1982 Miscellaneous items, 1908-c1970

Letterbooks, diaries, correspondence etc. relating to service in Cairo, Zanzibar and Uganda.

Notebooks and correspondence of Sir Michael Sadler relating to a visit to Germany to study the educational system, 1897, and an anonymous memorandum, ascribed to Sadler, relating to German colonial ambitions in Czechoslovakia, ca. 1938.

Collection of newspaper cuttings about Cecil Rhodes, 1881-1905, compiled by Simmonds.

Eight captioned albums of photographs relating to Leonard's service as Medical Officer with the Anglo-French expedition in the Cameroons (1914-1916) and with the Nigerian Brigade in German East Africa (1916-1918). Also, a diary describing Leonard's medical service in Southern Nigeria (1907); letters, maps and photographs relating to his medical service in West Africa (1907-1931), and an album of photographs of service in South Africa, Grenada and St. Vincent (c.1901-1905).

MSS. Afr. s. 2000 Photographs taken in Chad, Cameroon, French Equatorial Africa, northern Nigeria and Tenerife, [c1910-1913], including of the journey made by Olive MacLeod and Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Talbot, Nov. 1910-Jan. 1911, through theTerritoire Militaire du Tchad; sketches and paintings of northern Nigeria, by Charles Temple, [c1913-1918]. MSS. Afr. t. 37 Sketches and oil paintings of northern Nigeria, by Temple, [c1913-1918].

Memoranda, correspondence, diaries, etc. relating to primary, secondary and teacher education in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Northern Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, Nyasaland/Malawi, Tanganyika/Tanzania and Uganda, [1928-1984].

Assessment Report on Banso District, Cameroons Province, including details of the number of inhabitants, tax paid, administration, etc. (1922), by Hawkesworth. Re-assessment Report on Banso District, Cameroons Province, including details of numbers of inhabitants, tax paid, administration, etc. (1934), by Bridges. Report on Banso affairs, Cameroons Province (1938), by Harcourt.

Typescript compiled by Cyril B. Harris, entitledMy association with Cecil Rhodes and stories of the siege of Kimberley, as told on 16th April 1951 by W.D. Fynn, Superintendent of Farms for De Beers for 33 years. Includes a photograph of Rhodes at the site where he was later buried (Matopo Hills, Rhodesia) and another of a portrait of Rhodes, two letters from Ernst Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, 1951, a letter from Rhodes about sheep and angoras, 1899, and photographs of Rhodes memorabilia.

Watercolour portrait of Cecil Rhodes by Cecil Cutler Pen and ink cartoon by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, Mr. Rhodes will not be interviewed Photograph album of 90 views of South African importance presented by the Photographic Club of Cape Town, 1898 Photograph album of 24 views of Groote Schuur and its environs, 1898 Two photograph albums containing a collection of 147 prints of Ladysmith, during and after the siege, relating mainly to Frank Rhodes, 1899-1900 Two photograph albums containing 235 Rhodes family and social photographs taken in South Africa and Britain, 1895-1910

Mounted photograph of Louis Botha 'reading aloud to the Commandants and Veld Kornets his appointment as Commandant-General, near Colenso (Anglo-Boer War)', c1900; two photographs of Welgelegen on the Groote Schuur estate, Cape Colony, c1900.

Undated first draft of The life of Jamesonby Ian Duncan Colvin (London, E. Arnold and co., 1922) Manuscript of projected book by Charles Cowen on Rhodes, with related papers, 1874-1912 Papers of Gordon Le Sueur, comprising miscellaneous letters and papers relating to Rhodes, and draft material for a biography, 1897-1907 Papers of E.A. Maund, comprising reminiscences of Rhodes, [1923-1929], with related enclosures, [1885-1891] and letters from Maund to the Rhodes Trust Papers of Sir Lewis Michell, comprising letters and miscellaneous papers relating to Rhodes, including items formerly part of the Rhodes Papers (MSS. Afr. s. 228), 1869-1907 Papers relating to the Princess Radziwill, 1899-1902 Books associated with Rhodes, and related papers, 1864-1949 Correspondence about papers relating to Rhodes in the possession of his contemporaries, 1955-1961