Correspondence about land

Title

Correspondence about land

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 75

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-55: Correspondence, 1932, with Edwin Speed, Lord Olivier, Sir John Harris, William MacGregor Ross, H.D. Hooper (African Secretary of the Church Missionary Society), Sir William Morris Carter and Sir Humphry Leggett, with extracts from Lugard's diary when in British East Africa in 1890.

File 2, fols. 1-136: Memorandum by Lugard on "Points for Consideration in the Morris Carter Report" with subsequent correspondence with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Evan Biss (Honorary Secretary of the Race Relations Committee, Nairobi) who enclosed minutes of the committee, Sir Drummond Shiels, L.S.B. Leakey, L.S. Amery, Sir William Morris Carter, Reginald Coupland, Sir Robert Hamilton, W.E. Owen, William MacGregor Ross, Henry Polak (representing the Indian Overseas Association), Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Margery Perham who sent notes on land tenure at Lugard's request, Sir Humphry Leggett and Sir Arthur Dawe, 1932-1942.

File 3, fols. 1-81: Correspondence with Sir Robert Hamilton about the Morris Carter Report and the situation in Kenya, 1934-1939.

File 4, fols. 1-55: Memorandum and comments on the Morris Carter Report by Lugard and others, including a draft letter to Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1934-1941.

File 5, fols. 1-28: Note, 1944, on "Land in Kenya" sent to Lord Faringdon by Lugard when he was intending to put down a Motion in the House of Lords on administration in Kenya, with an extract from Empire, Nov 1943.

Date

1932-1944

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box