fols. 1-57: Memoranda on the Ashanti Development Committee, of which Russell was Chairman; on the police, local urban and district councils, general election 1956, bungalow accommodation, postings of administrative officers 1957, and the Kumasi Municipal Council Order 1957.

There is a letter from Russell to the Secretary to the Governor-General, Accra, about the latter's farewell tour (fol. 47) and a draft programme of the visit in April 1957 of C.J. Alport, Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (fols. 49-50).