Box 606766770
Container
Contains 241 Results:
Unsigned manuscript monthly financial summary for Niger and Benue stations, n.d. [1904; pencilled dating]
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 1
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
n.d. [1904; pencilled dating]
Copy of a letter from Scarbrough to the High Commissioner on not confusing the Company's share of prospecting licence payments with the settlement of the Wages Agreement, 6 Jan 1904
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 2
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
6 Jan 1904
Manuscript draft of a letter from Scarbrough to Antrobus pointing out the error and dangers of Lugard's direct taxation system, 8 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 3
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
8 Jan 1904
Manuscript draft of a part of a letter in Scarbrough's hand to Watts, n.d. [15 Mar 1904]
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 4
About the tone of his letter to a bereaved employee, [Augustus] Endean [misbound; see fols. 70-71 for Watts's reply].
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
n.d. [15 Mar 1904]
Volume 11: Miscellaneous Papers, 1902-1906
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1902-1906
Manuscript draft of a letter in Scarbrough's hand to Antrobus, after discussion, 21 Jan 1904
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 8
Asking for a suspension of the Rubber Close time, pending the Southern Nigerian Special forestry official's investigation.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
21 Jan 1904
Letter from Aberdare to Scarbrough, apologising for non-attendance and tendering his resignation, 23 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 9-10
Letter endorsed with Scarbrough's manuscript reply of 26 Jan, accepting his apologies and rejecting his resignation.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jan 1904
Letter from Watts to Alexander Miller on the increasing costs of the swelling administration, and the impracticability of Lugard's railway schemes for a poor, sparsely populated country, 24 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 11-12
Also, on the expenses of the transport business.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
24 Jan 1904
Part of a letter from M.H.D. Beresford, Secretary to the Administration, to the Company's Secretary, 25 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 13-15
Asking for settlement of the Wages Agreement, which, after deducting the prospecting licence payment, is £8,466. 0. 11. [missing third page, commented on in Scarbrough's hand; note of (missing) enclosures in another hand].
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
25 Jan 1904
Signed copy of a letter from Scarbrough to the Under-S/S Col., on the export duty on ivory from Northern Nigeria, and Lyttleton's rejection of Lugard's recommendation to reduce 15% to 2%, 26 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 16-19
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
26 Jan 1904
Letter from H. Cotterell, of the African Association, to Scarbrough, reporting amicable discussions with Sir Alfred Jones of the Steamship Co., 27 Jan 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 20-21
About reducing rates for the Companies, and providing steamers for the government; endorsed with note in Scarbrough's hand of offering transport facilities to the government.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
27 Jan 1904
Copy of Company letter from J. Holst, district agent at Abutshi, 2 Feb 1904
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 22-23
Reporting on rubber collection and the close season; and successful competition with Holts; troops restoring order to Asaba area.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
2 Feb 1904
Letter from Cotterell to Scarbrough, 2 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 24-25
About further discussions with Jones; inevitable apprehensions of George Miller and Cotterell's Board, but obvious necessity of linking trade and transport.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
2 Feb 1904
Letter from Boyd Alexander to Scarbrough, asking about lowering Company freight charges for his unsupported scientific expedition to Lake Chad, 3 Feb 1904
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 26-29
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
3 Feb 1904
Letter from Cotterell to Scarbrough about difficulty with George Miller over freight, 4 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 30-31
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
4 Feb 1904
Letter from George Miller to Alexander Miller after discussions with [Thomas Stanley] Rogerson about competition and carrying, 4 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 32
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
4 Feb 1904
Unsigned typescript and manuscript financial summaries of chartering for 1903, and rates for 1904, 11 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 33-35
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
11 Feb 1904
Manuscript memorandum in Scarbrough's hand of discussion with [Sir Ralph] Moor about carrying services, indigenous traders, and Coast trading firms, 15 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 36
Additional note on Laws, Watts, and concessions.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
15 Feb 1904
Letter from Boyd Alexander thanking Scarbrough for helping his Chad expedition, 18 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fol. 37
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
18 Feb 1904
Correspondence between Scarbrough and Lord Lyttelton, 19 and 24 Feb 1904
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 95, fols. 38-41
About plans advanced by Lugard and the Cotton Growing Association for the development of Northern Nigeria, and the Niger Company's view of these as costly and impractical.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
19 and 24 Feb 1904