African Lakes Co

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Alternative name(s):	British South Africa Company (Later known as)
Date:	1878-1991
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Shops, merchants and distributors > Overseas merchants
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C106855 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B4415 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1880-1925: corresp, registers of corresp and ordinances (among High Commission for South Africa records)	The National Archives	CO3, 417, 545
2	1888-1911: reports, minutes, papers and corresp	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Afr s 70-84, 227-29
3	c1894-1925: minutes, accounts, corresp etc	Derbyshire Record Office	D3287, D3311	NRA 5438 Gell
4	1878-1991: minute books, cash books, agenda books, annual reports and accounts, company title deeds, plantation plans, maps and charts, land sale correspondence, staff contract books, steamer and engineering specification books, photographs	Glasgow University Archive Services	UGC193	See Annual Return 2008
5	1878-1899: letter-books of John and Frederick Moir and E Laidlaw Thomson rel to their efforts to develop trade in Nyasaland, mainly in coffee, as agents for the African Lakes Co	Historical Papers, William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand	A78