Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1956-1962

File

MS. 5883/19

Held in our offsite storage facility

Request
this

Order this material to a Weston Library reading room

This material can be requested via the online system, where you can monitor the progress of your order.

Please note that this material is held in our offsite storage facility. Orders submitted by 10am Monday-Friday will be available for consultation within 24 hours.

Help

Contains ten folders:

1. "Photocopied Correspondence - Financial", 1958 - Photocopied correspondence on various financial matters, including the Lennox-Boyd proposals. Correspondents include: Evelyn Baring; Alan Dower; James Griffiths; John Hinchey; F.S. Joelson; Alan T. Lennox-Boyd; B.A. Ohanga; Richard Turnbull; Eirene White, M.P.

2. "Correspondence - Kenya Consitution", 1959 - Correspondence regarding various Kenyan constitutional matters. Correspondents include: Sir Evelyn Baring; Thomas J. Bata; Michael Blundell; Derek Bryceson; Thomas D. Cabot; A. Carnecky; T. Crosskill; W.E.K. Grisewood; Richard Hughes; Amir H. Jamal; Ameerally R. Kassim Lakha; Alan T. Lennox-Boyd; Roy Lewis; W.J.M. Mackenzie; Iain McLeod; John Midgeley; Julius Nyerere; K. Pascall; Marjory F. Perham; Patrick Renison; Arnold Rivkin; David Rockefeller; J.W. Saxe; Loyd V. Steere; Frank T. deVyver

3. "Kenya TV Network", 1959-1962 - Correspondence, proposals, minutes, etc., including calculations of costs, relating to the Kenya TV network, of which Vasey was a director.

4. "Speeches and Broadcasts", 1956-1962 - Transcripts of speeches and radio broadcasts made by Ernest A. Vasey, with related correspondence. Includes:

"No Politics as Such" speech made to the East African European Pioneers' Society, 6 Jul 1956
"Odds and Ends of Fiscal Policy" speech made to the Economics Club, 23 Jul 1956
BBC General Overseas Broadcast recorded 26 Jan 1959 for 26 Mar 1959
Presidential Address to the Economics Club of Kenya, 17 Jul 1958
"Financing the Growth of an Under-Developed Territory" lecture, 20 Jul 1959
Speech delivered to the Lions Club, Nairobi, 28 Oct 1959
Speech on the Commonwealth give to the Economics Club, 30 Oct 1959
Speech in the National Assembly 15 Jun 1962
"First Public Lecture", 8 Nov 1962
"Public Lecture No. 2", 14 Nov 1962

Correspondents include: John Midgley; Adlai E. Stevenson

5. "Tanganyika Finance Minister", 1959-1962 - Correspondence in chronological order, concerned with Ernest A. Vasey's appointment as Finance Minister to the Tanganyika Government - primarily letters of congratulation upon taking up the post; there are some later letters regarding his resignation.

6. "Correspondence - Tanganyika High Commission", 1960 - Correspondence in chronological order, with the Tanganyika High Commission and with Julius Nyerere, regarding financial and constitutional matters. Also includes some press materials. Other correspondents include: Hamilton Fish Armstrong; K. Bolton; M.J. Davies; H.D. Haggie; L. Howell; F.S. Joelson; T.M. Loudon; B.R. McKensie; Iain McLeod, M.P.; S.H. Shamshi; R.S. Wollen; Richard Turnbull.

7. "Appointment to Legislative Council of Tanganyika", 1960-1961 - Ernest A. Vasey's certificates of appointment as: Member of the National Assembly; Minister and Member of the Legislative Council of Tanganyika

8. "Articles and Reports", 1961-1962 - Memorandum and articles concerning aid to developing countries, political independence, etc.

"Budgeting for Independence" - an article published in Corona, November Chronicle, Jan 1962
Memorandum for John Hatch, as comment upon the paper "Aid to Newly Developing Countries", Aug 1961
Typescript of an article for a special supplement of The Times, Dec 1961
Typescript of an article for Neues Afrika, Dec 1961
"East African Tour - Report by the Director", by William Clarke, 31 Dec 1961

9. "Correspondence - Africanisation", 1961 - Correspondence regarding Africanisation - primarily with Julius Nyerere and F.S. Joelson of East Africa and Rhodesia magazine. Other correspondents include: Iain McLeod, M.P.; George V.H. Moseley III; W. Clifford Shields.

10. "Tanganyika Parliament Speech", 1961 - Photocopy of transcript of speech in Tanganyika parliament