Box 606766220
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Basutoland (Lesotho), 1881-1929
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 211
Two envelopes of papers, each inscribed by Lagden with a description not entirely relevant to the present contents.
Extents: 2 folders
Dates:
1881-1929
'Basutoland Despatches early & personal', 1892-1929
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-3) 'Night Pitso and copies of reports of officers re changes in Basutoland': folder of papers, mostly manuscript drafts of speeches in Lagden's hand, and including a typed copy of Basutoland Native Laws (fols. 20-23), 20 Mar 1892-21 Oct 1897
(fols. 38-50) correspondence between General George Cox, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Natal (KwaZulu-Natal), and Lagden,...
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1892-1929
Two letters from Sir Evelyn Wood to Lagden, and two reports by Colonel Henry Ewart, Household Cavalry, from a Camp near Massamah, relating to the Egyptian War, 31 Aug 1881-22 Aug 1882
Item
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
31 Aug 1881-22 Aug 1882
Miscellaneous personal letters to Lagden, some not dated, from James Knowles, Lord Wolseley, Lady Rosmead, and Richard Solomon; and from S. Smyth and Lagden to 'My dear Colonel', 24 Jan 1884-19 Nov 1903
Item
Extents: 38 Leaves
Dates:
24 Jan 1884-19 Nov 1903
Letters in reply to Lagden's Confidential Circular of 2 Feb, about inter-tribal disputes and political cases affecting the peace of Basutoland (Lesotho), from the Assistant Commissioners of Leribe, Maseru, Berea, Mafeking, Quthing, and Mohale's Hoek, and postscripts, 9-28 Feb 1894
Item
Extents: 27 leaf
Dates:
9-28 Feb 1894
Despatch from Sir Henry Loch to Lagden, and his reply, about the policy of keeping mineral prospectors out of Basutoland (Lesotho), 12 Jan-3 Feb 1895
Item
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates:
12 Jan-3 Feb 1895
Letter from Edward Fairfield, Colonial Office, to Lagden about mining Concessions in Basutoland (Lesotho), 14 Oct 1895
Item
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates:
14 Oct 1895
Letter of thanks from the Administrator, Bulawayo, to Lagden, 27 [?] 1896
Item
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates:
27 [?] 1896
Copies of reports and despatches between Lagden and the High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Milner, and a few related papers, 15 Dec 1896-20 Apr 1899
Item
Topics include the following:
the construction of the Cape Colonial Rinderpest fence
border disturbances
attitude of Lerothodi and his sons
political working of Berea District
outbreak of Rinderpest
effect in Basutoland (Lesotho) of political disquietude in South Africa
education in Basutoland...
Extents: 100 Leaves
Dates:
15 Dec 1896-20 Apr 1899
Personal letters to Lagden and copies of some of his replies, 4 Nov 1898-3 Oct 1900
Item
Correspondents include the following:
General Cox
Richard E.R. Martin
Walter Hely Hutchinson
Lord Rosslyn
Sir Redvers Buller
James Stewart
General G.T. Pretzman.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates:
4 Nov 1898-3 Oct 1900
Correspondence between Lagden and the Colonial Office (chiefly with Joseph Chamberlain, S/S Col.), following Lagden's retirement from Basutoland (Lesotho), 21 Feb-4 Jul 1901
Item
About the great value of his services in that territory, his salary, extension of leave, and appointment as Commissioner of Native Affairs in the Transvaal (Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West); also, notes of Lagden's interview with Chamberlain.
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates:
21 Feb-4 Jul 1901
Correspondence between Lagden and Solomon about the administrative system of Native Affairs in the Cape and Natal (KwaZulu-Natal), and the election campaign, 16-26 Oct 1903
Item
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
16-26 Oct 1903
Cuttings about Basutoland (Lesotho); the death of Lerothodi; and the chieftainship question, 23 Aug-14 Sep 1905
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Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
23 Aug-14 Sep 1905