Box 606766769
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Contains 179 Results:
Letters to Scarbrough about discussions over mining matters including royalties, and George Macdonald's desire to join forces with the Company, 26-29 Oct 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 132-139
Also about S/S Col. Joseph Chamberlain's delay over the Mineral Ordinance. Includes:
(fols. 132-137) letters from Sir John Kirk
(fols. 138, 139) letter from Lugard
(fol. 139) on eve of return to Nigeria, Lugard's manuscript postscript proposes personal correspondence for discussion of matters affecting the Company.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
26-29 Oct 1901
Letter from Watts to Scarbrough, describing freehold and leasehold properties at Lokoja, and criticising Lugard's terms for leasing property to the Company, 31 Oct 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 140-142
Copy of a letter from Watts to Lugard stating the wholesale prices for barter foods, 21 Dec 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 143
Letters about revising the Company's accounting system, and methods of completing of Bills of Lading and Manifests, 23 and 27 Dec 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 144-149
Two letters from A. Miller to Scarbrough (fols. 144-145, 149) and a copy of one to Watts (fols. 146-148).
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
23 and 27 Dec 1901
Unsigned manuscript note on the costs of salt in Northern Nigeria, n.d. [1901]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 150
Two unsigned copies of memoranda on Nigerian sales for 1902, 13 May 1903, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 151-152
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
13 May 1903, n.d.
Copy of a report from A.W. Ricketts, agent at Ibi, to the Directors, 3 Jun 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 176-181
On the trading situation and the difficulties of securing crops or fostering trade with unrest in both British and German spheres, and consequent military activities.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
3 Jun 1902
Copies of letters between Watts and Wallace about the Lokoja lease, 10 Jun 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 182-183
Extracts copied from three London office letters to Lenthall about Dominick's proposals for a Garua (Garoua) factory, and the unlikely profitability of such a venture, 25 Jun-31 Oct 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 184-186
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
25 Jun-31 Oct 1902
Copies of letters between E.E. Blake, for Crown Agents, and R.I. Moseley, Secretary of the Anglo-African Bank, 1 and 11 Jul 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 187-188
About arrangements for transacting government business in the Nigerias.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
1 and 11 Jul 1902
Correspondence about the year's trading position and suggestions for encouraging the rubber trade, 5-27 Jul 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 189-194
Includes:
(fols. 139-190) copies of letter from Lugard to Lenthall
(fols. 191-193) Lenthall's reply
(fol. 194) comments to the Company.
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
5-27 Jul 1902
Extracts copied from eight of Lenthall's letters to the Company, 17 Jul 1902-20 Feb 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 194-198
Mentioning the presence of other traders in Northern Nigeria and suggesting that this invalidates the government's request for percentage on their labour bill.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
17 Jul 1902-20 Feb 1903
Correspondence about Miller's decision to send an auditor to inspect accounts of Working Agreement colleagues, 21 Oct-3 Nov 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 199-212
Between:
the African Association and the Oil Rivers Trading & Exploration Co.
Robert and George Miller of Messrs. A. Miller Bro. & Co.
Scarbrough.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates:
21 Oct-3 Nov 1902
Extracts copied from correspondence between Lenthall, P.W. Anderson (for Lugard), G.R. Nicolaus, Watts, and the Company, Nov 1902-1 Jan 1903
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 213-224
About:
(fols. 213, 214, 217, 222) the Canteen question
(fols. 213, 222-223, 224) government carrying
(fols. 213, 215) the French Boundary Commission
(fols. 215-216) Lugard's probable expedition to Kano
(fols. 216-217) the problems for the Company raised by the 'Master & Servant' Proclamation, 1902
(fols. 218,...
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates:
Nov 1902-1 Jan 1903
Correspondence between G.A. Moore, of the Oil Rivers Co., Scarbrough, and George Miller about Moore's action in repudiating Miller's auditor, 8-10 Nov 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 225-231
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
8-10 Nov 1902
Memoranda and correspondence between Trigge, Alexander Miller, Flint, and Scarbrough writing to each other, Lenthall, and Lugard, 12-18 Nov 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 232-245
About cash sales and the government's claim for commission from the Company on wages to government employees, assumed to be spent in Company canteens.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates:
12-18 Nov 1902
Letter from Watts, in England, to Scarbrough, quoting Lenthall's account of the profits made by government canteens, 23 Nov 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fol. 246
General dissatisfaction with Zungeru as capital, because of its unhealthiness; Lady Lugard's consequent illness leading to her return to England.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
23 Nov 1902
Unsigned copy of memorandum and initialled copy of a letter from Scarbrough to Lugard, 24 and 26 Nov 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 247-251
Unsigned copy of memorandum and initialled copy of a letter (fols. 248-251) from Scarbrough on the impracticability of the commission, since figures imply the dispersal of wages by other means than Company canteens.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
24 and 26 Nov 1902
Letter from Watts, in Madeira, to Scarbrough, 3 Dec 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 252-255
About:
the government canteens, and new proposals
wage-dispersal
the Company's fortnightly steamer service
the Lokoja lease
undue influence by Miller Bros. through their partnerships in the Company.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
3 Dec 1902
Letter from Flint to Scarbrough, 3 Dec 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 94, fols. 256-257
About Chief Justice Gollan[d]'s visit to discuss the new Canteen proposals; also about government investment in Zungeru, and the disappearance of silver coinage in Northern Nigeria.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
3 Dec 1902