Box 606754317
Container
Contains 44 Results:
The Electors' Union, the Kenya National Farmers' Union, the Capricorn Africa Society, the Mombasa Social Survey, and the Buxton Preparatory School, 1946-1964
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2
The Electors' Union, 1946-1954
Folder
See also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/1, folder 4.
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates:
1946-1954
Agricultural matters and the Kenya National Farmers' Union, 1955-1964
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-4) diagrams relating to a tank and leaflet about a pump, 8 Nov 1955
(fols. 5-7) correspondence between Buxton and the Water Bailiff, Nairobi, about water supplies, Ithanji River and tributaries, 19 Apr and 16 May 1956
(fols. 8-10) correspondence between Buxton and the Commissioner of Lands, Nairobi, about the Ithanji Dam and the boundary of Buxton's...
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates:
1955-1964
Mombasa Social Survey, File 1, 1956-1957
Folder
Comprises:
(fols. 1-6) memorandum clipped into folder: Historical introduction (by George Bennett), n.d.
(fols 7-31) memorandum clipped into folder: The Arab Community (by H.E. Lambert), n.d.
(fols. 32-52) memorandum clipped into folder: The Goan Community (by Surenda Mehta and G.M. Wilson) n.d.
(fols. 53-84) memorandum clipped into folder: The...
Extents: 101 Leaves
Dates:
1956-1957
The Buxton Preparatory School, Mombasa, 23 Jun-15 Nov 1959
Folder
Correspondence, fastened into folder in reverse chronological order, concerning a non-racial English-speaking primary school to be opened in Jan 1960; also, circulars and minutes of the first four meetings of the provisional Board of Governors, of which Buxton was Chairman. Correspondents include the Venerable Archdeacon K.E. Stovold, Bernard de Bunsen, Principal Makerere College, and Kenneth Yerrill. Copies of an appeal for funds and other circulars are inserted loosely in the folder.
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jun-15 Nov 1959
Two letters signed 'Frank' to Buxton, about a memorandum by Kendall Ward and proposals for Closer Union, 23 Jan [1946?]-1 May 1946
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 1-2
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jan [1946?]-1 May 1946
Circular letter from Buxton about problems of administering the East African territories, referring to Colonial No. 191 and to the proposals of the Hilton Young Commission, May 1946
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 3-6
Electors' Union memorandum on the labour situation, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 7-10
'An Outline Policy for the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya': Electors' Union pamphlet (pp. 38), annotated by Buxton, [1946?]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, item 1
Kenya Guardian (official journal of the Electors' Union), No. 5, Jan 1947
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, item 2
Report of the Fourth Annual Conference, Nairobi, under the Presidency of Lord Francis Scott, 5-7 Mar 1947
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, item 3
Record of speech by Hope-Jones about the economic crisis and of remarks by O. Hopkins and Sir Robert Shaw about the work and organisation of Electors' Union, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 11-21
'Provincial Councils': memorandum by Buxton, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fol. 22
'Universal Language': memorandum by Buxton, manuscript draft, and cyclostyled copy, [1948]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 23-41
Attached is a manuscript paper by him dated May 1921 entitled 'Some notes on the lingua franca of Kenya Colony' and pages from the Church Missionary Review, with the text of an address given to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) by J.R. Orr, Director of Education in Kenya Colony.
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates:
[1948]
'Universal Language': memorandum by Sir Guy Pilling, [1948]
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fol. 42
'The moral foundation of an African development policy', by the Rev. M. Capon, 27 Jul 1948
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 43-44
'Federation - East and Central Africa': confidential draft of memorandum issued by the Joint East and Central African Board, 15 Mar 1949
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fols. 45-51
Circular letter from Buxton, President, Kiambu Electors' Organization, to all residents of Kiambu Constituency, about constitutional proposals, 21 Mar 1949
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, fol. 52
'The Kenya Land Problem: the history of African and European land settlement', memorandum prepared by Electors' Union (EU), Apr 1952
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 390/2, folder 1, item 9