Africans and British Rule, 1940-1945

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 288

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folder 1 (fols. 1-138) typescript synopsis of a book on colonial government with the manuscript first draft of the book, some of the chapters of which were used for Africans and British Rule published by the Oxford University Press in 1941 in its African Welfare Series. Note by MP on the original file cover: '2nd class value', c. 1940
folder 2 (fols. 1-52) last chapters of the book in manuscript, with other fragments, 1941
folder 3 (fols. 1-19) correspondence with the publisher, with a copy of the publisher's blurb headed 'Autobiographical notes', 1940-1941
folder 4 (fols. 1-52) correspondence about the book and reactions to it, 1940-1945
folder 5 (fols. 1-12 and item 1) reviews, 1941-1943
folder 6 (fols. 1-3) Hansard cuttings of the Question tabled by Creech Jones about the banning of Africans and British Rule in Kenya, with a letter in reply from the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Harold Macmillan, and a cutting from The East African Standard about the ban, 1942.

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MSS. Perham 288

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