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Hodder and Stoughton Records, 1875-1914

Title: Hodder and Stoughton Records, 1875-1914

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (963 items in 6 boxes).

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Crowther, Samuel, 1806?-1891. Letters and portrait [manuscript].

Title: Letters and portrait [manuscript]. 1887-1889.

Three letters written to Crowther by Constance Cumming and John Eadie (?), and one written to a Mrs Annear by Crowther, plus a portait of Crowther.

ArchivalResource: 1 cm. (1 folder)

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Venn, Henry, 1796-1873. Letter, 1857, June 12 : London, Eng., to Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton.

Title: Letter, 1857, June 12 : London, Eng., to Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton.

Letter to Taunton, British Colonial Secretary, concerning the appointment of an African as Bishop of Sierra Leone, the training of Africans for positions of authority in the Church of England, the Rev. Samuel Adjai Crowther, and the Church Missionary Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154271366 View

Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor on Sundays. Correspondence, 1859-1885.

Title: Correspondence, 1859-1885.

Consists of over two hundred letters and signatures, as well as some images, relating to the Temperance Movement in England. The letters date predominantly from the 1870s, a time when the Temperance Movement was emerging as an important political force in Great Britain, and are principally addressed to leading figures in the Temperance Movement in north-west England: Edwin Barton and Robert Whitworth, honorary secretaries of the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor on Sundays, and Robert Martin, secretary of the License Amendment League. The majority of the letters are written by politicians, relating to petitions to stop the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays.

ArchivalResource: 276 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609678383 View

Hodder and Stoughton. Hodder and Stoughton records, 1875-1914.

Title: Hodder and Stoughton records, 1875-1914.

Correspondence and publishing agreements for many of their authors in the pre-World War I period.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. ( 6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470411479 View

Africa Papers, 1781-1958.

Title: Africa Papers, 1781-1958.

Several items relate to church affairs, including letters of Samuel A. Crowther describing Christian missions in southern Nigeria and the havoc caused by slave traders, 1852; John Wilson mentioning disorders in South Africa; Joseph Williams describing missionary work in southern Tanganyika, 1882; Zakaria Kizito Kisingiri describing his mother's funeral in Uganda, 1912; John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, noting the uncertainty of his career, 1864; and T. Durant Philip on missionary work in Cape Colony, 1849. Includes a picture of Paulus Moort, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Monrovia, Liberia. Other material includes a letter of N. Abcarius about a plot against the Mahdi of Sudan, 1885; the complaint of a minor official in Cairo against British inactivity in the Sudan, 1889; and two items pertaining to the visit of George V to Port Said, 1911. Includes a small volume of economic statistics on the Cape Colony, 1781-1803, 38 pp.; a letter of Arthur D. Cushing describing looting during the Boer War, 1901; engravings of two maps showing the course of the Nile and Niger rivers, 1821; and the typescript of an article by Cyril Sofer on race in South Africa, 1958.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36109752 View