Contains: folder 1: 'Social Development and Welfare (including Education)', 1949-1961 folder 2: 'Financial and Fiscal', 1953-1958 folder 3: 'Federal Election 1959', 1956-1962 folder 4: 'Correspondence', 1952-1957 folder 5: correspondence, 1957-1962 folder 6: miscellaneous correspondence, 1954-1964. ...

Contains: (fol. 1) 'Mbabu Village' by E.R. Chadwick, Assistant District Officer, Nigeria: Spectator, p. 713, 27 May 1949 (fol. 2) 'Free Education for Nsukka Infant Girls': Eastern Nigeria Information Service (ENIS) release, 28 Oct 1954 (items 1-2) Eastern House of Assembly Session Papers: No. 1. Policy for Medical and Health Services, No. 2....

Contains: (fols. 1-7) note on Northern Region Government Finances 1953-1954, n.d. (fols. 8-11) budget Speech 1956-1957, n.d. (fol. 12) schedules to the Finance Bill, n.d. (item 1) statement by the Premier of the Northern Region on the Region's need for Overseas Capital (pp. 2), 5 Mar 1956 (item 2) speech by Sir Clem. J. Pleass, Governor...

The papers, chiefly cuttings from Nigerian newspapers, are concerned also with the Nigerian Constitutional Conference and party politics. Contains: (fol. 1) cutting from Nigerian Citizen on the power of the Kano Native Authority, 24 Oct 1956 (fols. 2-11) 'The Nigerian Constitutional Conference 1957', a paper prepared by the Fabian Colonial Bureau,...

Until the end of Mar 1955, the FCB correspondent is Marjorie Nicholson (Marjorie Nicholson), and subsequently Hilda Selwyn-Clarke (Hilda Selwyn-Clarke), unless otherwise stated. Many of the Bureau's letters are to Nigerians visiting England or officials on leave from Nigeria, and some of these are marked 'Home Correspondence'.

The Bureau's correspondents are Mary Winchester, Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, T.F. Betts, Catherine Hoskyns, and Margaret Roberts.

Correspondence with various individuals and organisations in, and about, Nigeria.