Sir George Goldie: correspondence, 1893-1904, 1916

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 88, fols. 1-67

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(fol. 1) draft letter from Lord Scarbrough to Lord Rosebery, Foreign Secretary, asking for an interview on behalf of himself and Goldie to discuss the Company action over Lieutenant Mizon's expedition, n.d. [Jun 1893]
(fols. 2-3) letter from Rosebery to Scarbrough to say that the gravity of the situation may mean that Currie must be his proxy at the interview because of active negotiations with the French, 26 Jun 1893
(fols. 4-11) signed copy of a report by Goldie to the Council with annexed letters from Chief Justices Moore and Kane, concerning the prosecution of Company staff for embezzlement, 9 Oct 1894
(fols. 12-17) copies of two 'confidential' letters from Lugard to Goldie: (1) at Akassa, on the French advance along the Nile valley, and the likelihood of the British Government backing down; rumour that Rabeh [Rabeh Zobeir] lives; hopes that the Sultan of Bornu (Borno) may prove amenable to treaty-making; and (2) at Agbere, notes discrepancies between maps by Fergusson, Justus Perthes, Keipert, and Binger; doubts that his expedition is known in Paris; intends to visit chief at 'Bussah', could adjust plans if Goldie cabled; a little trouble with equipment, but all well, 29 and 31 Aug 1894
(fols. 18-20) unsigned copy of letter from [Ernst Vohsen?] Berlin, to Goldie about German fears of British leniency towards French ambitions in West Africa; desire for outlet to the Niger for Germany's Togoland, 9 Jan 1895
(fols. 21-35) two covering letters from Goldie to Scarbrough: (1) with his report to the Council of action immediately taken in London, and cables sent to Scarbrough in Yorkshire as news arrived from the Coast: all concerning the storming of Akassa by forces from Nembe; and (2) with a copy of a memorandum giving the exchanges between the Foreign Office and Goldie on receipt of Sir Claude Macdonald's telegram about rising hostility to the Company; Goldie points out the dangers of failing to punish the raid, 2-4 and 7 Feb 1895
(fol. 36) copies of cables from the Coast to the Company, and from Macdonald to the Foreign Office: reporting Captain Moloney's wound; the release of Mrs Price from Nembe; the disposition of Company troops and craft, and the arrival of the Admiral [Bedford] and HMS 'St. George', 10-11 Feb 1895
(fol. 37) Daily Chronicle cutting, with map, of the 'Anglo-French dispute on the Niger', 30 Mar 1895
(fol. 38) notes [by Scarbrough] for a memorandum to the Foreign Office defending the Chartered form of government; notes also on the 'Principle of amalgamation wrongly called monopoly', n.d. [Apr 1895]
(fol. 39) cover note from Goldie to Scarbrough to enclose papers sent to [Marquess of Salisbury?], 16 Dec 1895
(fol. 39b) draft letter [in Goldie's hand] on the Council's behalf [to Lord Salisbury] agreeing that the situation in the Protectorate, caused by 'flooding' it with fire-arms must be remedied, but the Company declines to alter its liquor importation policy; as Kirk's report remains unpublished, perhaps the solution could await Goldie's return from the Protectorate, n.d. [1896?]
(fols. 40-40d) printed circular letter from Goldie at Akassa, to C.S.T. [Constabulary?] officers, formulating a set of standing orders, 12 Mar 1896
(fol. 41) copies of cables between Consul General Moor in Brass, and Goldie, in London, about easing the situation faced by people from Brass; Goldie presses for the Mar 'modus vivendi', Moor considers it 'repression', 10-12 Jun 1896
(fols. 42-44) copy of a letter from H. Moor, Consul General Old Calabar, to Sir Clement [Hill] explaining the reasons behind his concessions to the people from Brass, 26 Jun 1896
(fols. 44a-b) signed copy of a letter from Goldie asking for Lord Salisbury's good offices in vouching for the Company to the War Office over its request for recognition of Lieutenant Arnold's services by promotion [see MSS. Afr. s. 101*, fols. 24-25; 77-86; 91], 14 Aug 1896
(fol. 44c) note [by Scarbrough] of Goldie's intended speech to the officers before action, n.d.
(fol. 44d) copy of a letter from Goldie to Hill explaining the position of chartered companies vis-a-vis the War Office, and the Company's reasons for needing the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs' backing when recommending Lieutenant Arnold, 24 Aug 1896
(fols. 44e-h) copy of Goldie's 'confidential' circular 'Order of the Day' to the European officers at Lokoja before the Niger-Soudan campaign, requiring exemplary treatment of local population and troops, and detailing the difficulties of the Campaign and measures to overcome them [see also MSS. Afr. s. 101*, fol. 99, ref. to this copy in letter printed in Dorothy Wellesley's Sir George Goldie, London 1934 ed., p. 53], 1 Jan 1897
(fol. 45) copy of Goldie's despatch from Egbon to the Council reporting the striking success of the Campaign, 6 Feb 1897
(fol. 46) copy of letter and cable from Henry Morley, Company Secretary, informing the War Office and the regimental headquarters of the death of Lieut. H.G. Chaworth-Musters [of dysentery], 1 Mar 1897
(fol. 47) signed copy of letter from Morley drawing the attention of the Foreign Office to The Times cable concerning the French or German expedition reported by the chief of 'Busa' [drafts of this, MSS. Afr. s. 101*, fols. 128-129], 2 Mar 1897
(fol. 48) copy of letter from R. Hamilton Joscelyne acknowledging the help of O/C 3rd King's Own Hussars over Chaworth-Musters' address, 2 Mar 1897
(fol. 49) copy of a letter from Morley to the Foreign Office about the replacement of the West Indian troops by the Company's Constabulary, 9 Mar 1897
(fols. 50-51) letter from Flora Shaw to Scarbrough, asking about the abolition of the legal status of slavery in the Niger Territories, 12 Mar [1897]
(fols. 52-53) letter from Frederick W. Brett to Scarbrough about an issue of British South African Co. (BSA) shares, 16 Mar 1897
(fol. 54) Times press cutting on the French occupation of 'Boussa', 16 Mar 1897
(fols. 55-56) draft in Scarbrough's hand of a letter [to The Times] correcting a small error in The Times' article on 'Boussa', [Mar 1897]
(fol. 57) copy of a supplementary notice for the Council Meeting to empower Morley and Trigge to sign cheques and have access to the Company boxes, [Mar 1897]
(fols. 58-59) letter from F.W. Brett to Scarbrough about Goldie's Lisbon address; has given Flora Shaw a copy of [the Emir of Gandu's] treaty, 27 Mar 1897
(fol. 60) copy of the resolution about presenting Goldie with his own portrait [the 'Herkomer' portrait], 8 Jul 1897
(fols. 60a-b) letter from Goldie, in London, confessing to Scarbrough that he is now at a loss and asking for policy guidance: the 'discordant ministry' of Salisbury and Chamberlain, Whitehall's preference for its own areas and 'the Rhodes Jamieson [sic] blunder', all militate against their Chartered form of government, and it being a time of 'extreme crisis', 25 Sep 1897
(fol. 60c) letter from Goldie to Scarbrough on a [Foreign Office] meeting; Scarbrough is to join him at a meeting with Lord Salisbury to discuss handing the Company territories over, 29 Sep 1897
(fols. 60d-i) cover note from Goldie to Scarbrough with copies of letters exchanged on the preceding day between Edward Wingfield, for Chamberlain, and Goldie; the latter sets out his terms for handing over the Charter for £1/2 million, leaving out private mineral and land rights. The envelope is covered with Scarbrough's jottings on the handing over [extended in letter below], 13 Nov 1897
(fols. 60j-l) draft personal letter from Scarbrough to Lord Salisbury giving his reasons thinking that there should be a transition period of a year or more in which to adjust the administration and retain Goldie's services, n.d. [c. 24 Nov 1897]
(fols. 60m-n) draft letter from Scarbrough to Goldie agreeing the policy is 'drifting'; and considering the methods of ejecting the French from Borgu and the resultant danger of war, n.d. [late Sep 1897]
(fols. 60o-p.) cover note from Goldie to Scarbrough with copies of cables exchanged between Brass and the Company in London about sending troops to the 'assistance' of the Emir of Sokoto against the French, 20 and 21 Feb 1898
(fol. 61) printed extracts from correspondence between the Treasury and Goldie about the Company's mineral rights after the revocation of the Charter, 29 Jun-1 Jul 1899
(fols. 61a-f) cover note from Goldie to Scarbrough, enclosing letters [from H.] Cotterell, of the African Association Ltd., to Goldie and to [George] Miller, concerning the wording of the Triplice Agreement. Cotterell asks Goldie, despite his retirement, to use his influence to guide Scarbrough and help control the Liverpool firms, whose impatience is apparent from the copy of the letter to Miller, 17, 22, and 24 Aug 1900
(fol. 62) copy of a letter from Martin Gosselin of the Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Niger Company about compensation to the Company for losses against Lieut. Mizon; Company claims have been deferred until the settlement by the French of British Government ones, 8 Sep 1900
(fol. 62a-b) memorandum by Goldie, in Mombasa, entitled: 'Note by the late Governor of The Royal Niger Company on the account between the Government of the French Republic and The Company' [see MSS. Afr. s. 101*, fol. 186, for accompanying letter], 22 Dec 1901
(fol. 63) card from Goldie, on his return [to England?], to Scarbrough, about letting Lugard have 'the Kano document' [MSS. Afr. s. 87, fols. 135, 140], as his only interest in Nigeria is now 'practical', not 'sentimental', n.d. 5 Nov [1903?]
(fols. 64-65) letter from Goldie to Scarbrough to enclose the draft [missing] of a carefully worded 'case' for the Colonial Office, 9 Nov 1904
(fols. 66-67) letter from Goldie convalescing in Bournemouth, to Scarbrough, about the Company's financial arrangements, the rescue of the Company by Europe's wartime requirements of oil products; the Liverpool firms' 'intention to fuse'; and his own health, 11 Jan 1916.