| Description | Letters from colonial officials and naval officers, appeals and complaints from Indigenous peoples, letters to Henry Venn relating to production of cotton.
/1: Letter from H. Townsend (Abeokuta) to Commodore Strange, HM steam sloop 'Archer', 1850.
/2: Letter from Isaac Smith, H. Townsend, David Hinderer and C. A. Gollmer protesting against proposed appointment of African bishop, 1851.
/3: B. A. Paley, Lagos, 1853.
/4: Capt Alan A. Gardner: HM Sloop 'Waterwitch', Sierra Leone, Jan 1854; enclosing copy of letter from H. D. Trotter: referring to Gollmer's remarks about Gardner in 'Yoruba Mission'.
/5: B. Campbell, consul at Lagos, 1854.
/6: Thomas B. Horsfield, Liverpool, 1856.
/7-8: Thomas J. Hutchinson: British consulate, Fernando Po [Bioko], 1856: possibility of establishing church mission; enclosing [/8], abstract of census of population of Clarence, Fernando Po [Bioko] taken 31 Mar 1856.
/9-10: 'Remarks [by B. Campbell] on suggestions submitted by a West India deputation to Lord Palmerston see Times 12 June 1857' [relating to slavery and the slave trade]; with a letter which includes reference to the slave trade and cotton, 1857.
/11, 16: Letters from Thomas J. Hutchinson, consul at Fernando Po [Bioko], 1858, 1859.
/12: Paper by B. Campbell: 'A supply of cotton may be drawn from those countries watered by the river Niger and its tributaries', 1857.
/13: W. Green: Ake, Abeokuta, 2 Feb 1858.
/14, 17: Letters from Frederick Buxton Abbega, [a Nigerian man who accompanied Crowther in journeys to the interior, and was also with Dr W. B. Baikie as interpreter on the Niger Expedition of 1860], 1858-1859.
/15: Isaiah L. Dewring, Ota: relating to cotton trade, 1858.
/18: John G. Hughes, Ake, Abeokuta: relating to cotton trade, 1860.
/19: Thomas Lewn: Abeokuta: relating to Mr Dewring, agent for Mr Southam, and cotton trade, 1860.
/20: T. Kenworthy Brown, Madeira: relating to Thomas Wilcoxon, 1860.
/21: William Culley, Lagos: relating to CMS land occupied by Mr Macaulay, 1861.
/22-24: Henry Shilling, Abeokuta: relating to Henry Townsend, 1861.
/25: James A. Lamb, L. Nicholson, V. Faulkner, Lagos: relating to addition to Training Institution, 1862.
/26: Commodore A. P. Eardley Wilmot, Lagos, 1863.
/27, 29: John Thomas Nottidge, Lagos, 1863-1864.
/28: N. J. Wilson, Faji, Lagos, 1863.
/30-32: Frederick Boxton Abbega, Lagos: letter and account with Dr Baikie, 1864.
/33-34: Charles Chapman, HMS 'Rattlesnake', 1864: forwarding 'Whydeh and Dahomey (from the journal of Mr. Dawson and from his letters to F. Fitzgerald Esq. Sec.y African Aid Society Nov 17 1862' [Dawson was a Nigerian trader and former Wesleyan Missionary at Ouidah; journal deals with government and customs of Dahomey].
/35: W. I. Goodwill [an African man], Ikija, Abeokuta, 1866.
/36: Joseph Elliott, Cape Palmas, 1866.
/37: James Lahanmi [born at Ishaga], Badagry, 1867.
/38-40: John Thomas Nottidge, Lagos, 1867.
/41: Chief Ogudipe, Ikija, Abeokuta, 1868.
/42: William Akiru, Badagry, 1868.
/43: Akibode, Badagry: account of conversion, 1868.
/44-46: John Thomas Nottidge, Lagos, 1868-1869.
/47: Chr. Haeberle, Lagos: order for brass steps for a brick machine [from Henry Clayton & Co, Atlas Work, Harrow Road, London], 1871.
/48, 53: C. Foresythe: Lagos: secretary, Association for Promoting Educational and Religious Interests in Lagos 1873, 1875;
/49, 52: Dr J. W. Jeanes, Lagos, 1873-1874.
/50-51: Mrs S. F. Davies [friend of Julia Tebbs, sister-in-law of Henry Wright], Lagos: relating to petition for Mr Nicholson to return to Breadfruit, Lagos, 1873.
/54: J. T. Nottidge, Lagos, 1875.
/55-60: D. W. Burton, industrial agent at Sierra Leone: relating to proposed buildings at Lagos, 1879. |