General Correspondence A-F, 1930-1931

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(fols. 1-6) report by John W. Arthur of the Church of Scotland Mission to the Kikuyu, commenting on the Kenya Missionary Council's minutes on the Government's White papers on Closer Union and Native Administration in order to provide some guidance to those of the Church of Scotland Mission about to give evidence to the Joint Select Committee; with an acknowledgement from Oldham, 17 Oct-10 Nov 1930 [IMC Boxes 238, 240, 243, and 247]
(fols. 7-13) correspondence between the Rev. A.R. Barlow and Oldham about the giving of missionary evidence to the Joint Select Committee [Barlow, Dr Philp, and Archdeacon Owen were to do this for Kenya Missionary Council], the proposal that Oldham should accompany the delegation, the impossibility of presenting the Committee with a general missionary view because of the complexity of the subject, and the addition of Canon Leakey to the delegation, 10 Nov-8 Dec 1930 [IMC Boxes 234, 235, 238, and 247]
(fols. 14-16) correspondence between W.C. Bottomley of the Colonial Office and Oldham about the missionaries who might be asked to give evidence from the Kenya Missionary Council, and advice from Oldham to Passfield about this, 6 Sep-14 Nov 1930
(fols. 17-18) correspondence between Canon G. Broomfield of the Universities Mission to Central Africa, in Zanzibar, and Oldham about an article he had written on the indigenous question for the Tanganyika Standard, which he also hoped to get published in London, 5-31 Oct 1930
(fols. 19-21) correspondence between the Rev. H.J. Butcher, Hon. Sec. of the Kenya Missionary Council, and Oldham about the latter's proposal to appoint an Educational Secretary for East Africa, the Council's discussion of the two White Papers, and the delegation to the Joint Select Committee, 9 Oct-10 Nov 1930 [see IMC Box 245]
(fols. 22-27) correspondence between Charles Roden Buxton and Oldham about representation of indigenous interests before the Joint Select Committee, Colonial Office consultation of Oldham about which missionaries to summon to give evidence, and about the necessity of countering Lord Delamere's propaganda and The Race Problem in Africa [probably the Memorandum of the Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions], 14 Oct 1930-12 Jun 1931
(fol. 28) letter from C. Delisle Burns to Oldham asking to be briefed on J.A. Cable's proposal that Kenya be partitioned into a white self-governing colony and an indigenous protectorate before he had an interview with Passfield or attended the Labour Party's Advisory Committee, 9 Mar 1930
(fols. 29-31 and item 1) Notes on the Problem of East Africa by J.A. Cable with a covering letter, May 1930
(fols. 32-43) correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Oldham about the former's inability to serve on the Joint Select Committee before Oct because of the Lambeth Conference or to speak in the House of Lords Debate on 3 Jul, Passfield having [by Oct] done the right thing in the wrong way about East Africa and thus turned it into a party matter; the attitude of Ormsby-Gore; the personnel of the Joint Select Committee, and Lugard's views; the Archbishop's doubts about serving on the Committee in view of the controversial wording of Passfield's white paper; and Oldham's approaches to leading Liberals and his paper for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), 1 Jul-10 Nov 1930
(fols. 44-45) letter from Oldham to the Very Rev. A.S. Duncan-Jones, Dean of Chichester, about the recent Land Act in Kenya, and the need for justice to be done to the legitimate claims of both races rather than that indigenous paramountcy should prevail in all instances, particularly regarding closer settlement, 13 Oct 1930
(fols. 46-48) correspondence between the Rev. Arthur Davies of the Church Assembly Missionary Council and Oldham about a resolution drafted by the latter for that body, 31 Mar-7 Apr 1930
(fols. 49-54) correspondence between Godfrey Dawson of The Times and Oldham about the fate of the Swynnerton anti-tsetse fly campaign, the need for the British government to announce a development scheme on scientific lines for the East African dependencies, Dawson's leading article, and the composition of the Joint Select Committee, 16 Jun-15 Oct 1930
(fol. 55) letter from J.H. Driberg to Oldham about The Spectator's anxiety to receive articles on Cable's partition scheme, 14 Apr 1930
(fols. 56-69) correspondence between Major Eric Dutton and Oldham about the Wilson proposals, Oldham's book on Smuts, the injustice of assuming that a disturbance in Nigeria had anything to do with events in Kenya, their personal friendship despite opposed views, the White Papers, the ideology of the settlers, Oldham's disappointment that the Commission's terms of reference had precluded sufficient consultation of white opinion in Kenya, Dutton's visit to Basutoland (Lesotho) before his return to England, the visit of Delamere, O'Shea and McClelland to London, the need for firm rule and goodwill in native administration, and Margery Perham's visit to Kenya, 18 Feb-29 Aug 1930.

Dates

Creation: 1930-1931

Extent

69 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MSS. Afr. s. 1829/5/1, folder 6

Former reference:

File F

Additional Description

Related Materials

International Missionary Council and Conference of British Missionary Societies archive. IMC-CBMS/01. Special Collections, SOAS Library: Boxes 238, 240, 243, and 247.

Previous material removed to Box File B 25.