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Title

Kassala Cotton Company

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MSS. Lugard 154

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-11: Notes by Edward Lugard and Margery Perham's research assistant on Lugard's directorship of and holdings in the Kassala Cotton Company, correspondence about probate in those shares and a request to Edward Lugard that Arthur Gaitskell might have access to these papers while he was preparing his work on the Gezira Scheme, 1945-1955.

File 2, items 1-4: Heads of agreement for the formation of a concession and development company by the Sudan Plantation Syndicate Limited, the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Kassala Cotton Company, a memorandum by the parent company and a directors' report, 1922-1923.

File 3, fols. 1-158 and item 1: Correspondence about the management of the Company, with related memoranda and reports and a draft annual report, 1923-1944.

File 4, fols. 1-10: Notes on the Kassala and Gezira schemes, 1922-[1955].

File 5, fols. 1-53: Reports of the annual general meetings, 1924-1944.

File 6, fols. 1-8: Press cuttings, 1922-1927.

File 7, fols. 1-46: Carbon copies of the fortnightly field reports sent by the Manager to the Secretary of the Company, 1938-1939.