| Description | Letters which Nancy Corby wrote to her family, principally from Kampala, Uganda, where she was serving as a CMS missionary teacher in a secondary school, 1930-1950; also a few written from The Willows, a CMS Training College for women, in 1929. The letters are often detailed and informative and include enclosures of printed and other ephemera. A letter of 1942, for example, describes the coronation of the Kabaka of Uganda and is accompanied by the official printed programme.
There are three small diaries. Two relate to holidays in Kenya and Central Africa, 1930-1933.
The collection also includes a few letters from friends of Nancy to her mother, Mrs Corby, 1937. |
| Administrative History | Nancy Harris Corby served as a CMS missionary teacher in Uganda, 1930-1950. She was a teacher at the Gayaza High School and she was headmistress from 1938-1950. She resigned from the CMS in 1953.
Source: CMS archive |
| Custodial History | Presented to the CMS by Miss N. Corby, Aug 1961; transferred on permanent loan to the Special Collections Department by the CMS in the 1980s. |