Catalogue description Colonial Office: Various Private Collections

This series contains various private paper collections comprising: correspondence (1869 to 1880) of Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Cape Colony, 1877 to 1880; correspondence, reports and miscellaneous papers of Capt. H L Norton Traill, Resident in Northern Nigeria, 1909 to 1922; private correspondence of Sir Robert Herbert, Permanent Under Secretary of State, concerning the abortive Lourenco Marques Treaty of 1879, Oct. to Nov. 1880; draft agreement regarding the future status of Transjordan, 1922; personal correspondence of E V G Day (Malayan Civil Service), 1942 to 1948 and 1952 to 1953; working papers 1952-1956 of Louis Branney (land tenure expert in the African Studies Branch) relating to land tenure in Africa 1880 to 1950.