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Sources Guide: East Africa (A&M)

NB collections range in size from single items to large personal or organisational archives.

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

James Bruce (1730-1794): Miscellaneous letters, 1760-90 MS.7330

André Thoüin (1747-1824): French botanist: report on the cultivation of an Ethiopian plant, “Teff”, 1774 MS.7598/14

Sir Evan Nepean (1751-1822), governor of Bombay: Papers on trade, including letter from Henry Salt (1780-1827) FRS sending a copy of an Ethiopian Psalter, 1816 MS.6857

French naval surgeon: Accounts of voyages to East and West Indies, including water-colours of scenes in Madagascar, 1808-16 MS.4956

David Livingstone (1813-1873): Miscellaneous letters, including correspondence of those associated with Livingstone, 1840-1959 MS.7329

Henry Piers (1818-1901): Journal as assistant surgeon on board HMS Cleopatra, on anti-slavery patrols off the coast of East Africa, especially Madagascar, Mozambique and Zanzibar, 1844-7 MS.5990

John Hodgkin (1800-1875): lawyer and organiser of relief work; correspondence includes letters from and concerning Dr Friedrich Bialloblotsky’s expedition from Zanzibar inland towards the Nile, 1846-9 PP/HO/E

Charles Tilstone Beke (1800-1874): explorer; journals, notebooks, correspondence and other papers on Abyssinia and the sources of the Nile, 1849-67,n.d. MS.S6834-5, 6841-8, 6852-6, 7330

Dr. James Murie (1832-1925), member of expedition to relieve Speke and Grant in Central Africa in 1861: commonplace book, c.1850-1920 MS.3654; Manuscript biography, 1927 MS.1721/9

Frederick Courtenay Selous (1815-1917): Letter,1855 MS.7328/43

John Temperley Gray (1835-1892), P & O Company ship’s surgeon: notebook compiled in India and on various ships between England and the Far East, including description of the Seychelles. 1862-88 MS.5875

Joseph Mailloux: physician to King Radama II of Madagascar: ‘Mémoire sur la choléra morbus épidémique de l’Inde...’,1863 MS.5727

Sir Samuel Baker (1821-1893), explorer: miscellaneous letters, 1866-90 MS.7330

Horace Waller, clergyman and writer, activist against slavery, associate of David Livingstone: letters to Henry Lee, naturalist, 1867-74, n.d. MS.5396

Hormuzd Rassam (1826-1910), Assyriologist, archaeologist and British civil servant, special envoy to the Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia: letters, 1868-83 MS.7480

Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904): miscellaneous letters, 1872-97 MS.7330; letters and miscellaneous material, including a certificate granting freedom to a slave (item no.33). 1872-1933 MS.7635; see also MS.S6010-2
Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), explorer of the sources of the Nile: miscellaneous letters; also one by Lady Isobel Burton (1831-1896), 1873, n.d. MS.7328/10-13

James Augustus Grant (1827-1892): miscellaneous letters, 1873-6, n.d. MS.7330

James Burn Russell (1837-1904): letters, including one from Robert Laws on supply of vaccine lymph to Livingstone Central Africa expedition, 1875 MS.5143

George Williams Parker, court physician, Madagascar: papers relating to transfer of Parker’s services from the London Missionary Society to the Malagasy government, signed by Rainilaiarivony, Malagasy Prime Minister and Commander in Chief, plus a certificate from the Malagasy ambassador, London, 1875-83 MS.7400/1-5

Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894). miscellaneous letters, 1876-89 MS.7330

Robert Laws (1851-1934), medical missionary: list of medical stores at the Livingstone medical mission, Nyasaland, c.1880 MS.3187

Sir Albert Ruskin Cook (1870-1951) and Katharine, Lady Cook (1863-1938): Diaries, correspondence, photographs, etc, of medical mission work based at Mengo Hospital, Uganda, 1881-1951, with emphasis on improvement of maternity services PP/COO

Wellcome Foundation Records of the pharmaceutical company include material relating to its operations, marketing, etc, in East Africa, 1880s-1990s WF

William Hoffman: journal and papers, mainly concerning travels in the service of H.M. Stanley (especially on the Emin Pasha relief expedition of 1887-9), 1884-1909, n.d. MSS.6010-2

Sir James Cantlie (1851-1926): letters and papers collected for the production of the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene include original papers submitted for publication, for example on the water supply of Khartoum, 1887-1911, n.d. MS.6937

Lionel Decle: notebooks and letter book concerning his travels in Central and East Africa, 1893-1900 MSS.6017-24

Sir John Kirk (1832-1922): correspondence among papers of Sir Patrick Manson, n.d. MSS.6129-33

Lyon Falkener (1867-1947): ‘Report on the sanitary aspect of the site of Nairobi Township’, 1901 MS.6807/24

Robert Koch (1843-1910): ‘African Coast Fever in Cattle’, Rhodesia, 1st-4th reports photocopied from originals in Public Record Office, 1903-4 MS.8668

Wellcome Archives: Records of the Historical Medical Museum, 1903-85, include material relating to East Africa WA/HMM; Records of Bureau of Scientific Research, 1913-38, and Chemical Research Laboratory, 1899-1946, include material on research relating to East Africa WA/BSR, WA/CRL; Tropical Research Laboratories were based in the Sudan, 1899-1943 WA/TRL; Sir Henry Wellcome's personal papers include material on his archaeological excavations at Jebel Moya in the Sudan, 1910-39 WA/HSW

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: Notes on ancient medical practices in Madagascar; photographs and reminiscences re Sir David Bruce’s work on trypanosomiasis and brucellosis in Uganda; diaries and photograph albums of RAMC personnel stationed in Tanganyika and Mozambique, First World War; papers of R E Barnsley as ADMS, East Africa Force, during Italian invasion, 1940-41; report of Consultant Physician, East African Command, 1945; reminiscences and memorabilia of Kenya, 1950s; notes of Sir John Boyd’s visits to Kenya and Uganda, 1960. See under East Africa in place name index RAMC

Sir David Bruce (1855-1931) and Mary, Lady Bruce (d.1931) (in Royal Society Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene) Sir David’s correspondence as head of the Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission in Uganda, 1902-7, with texts of talks, reports, etc, to 1915; Lady Bruce’s illustrations of trypanosomes in Uganda, 1908-13; collected reports on trypano- somiasis, 1920s WTI/RST/G see also RAMC

Lt Col Albert Ernest Hamerton (1885-1959): notebook and photograph album of Sleeping Sickness Commission, Uganda and Nyasaland, 1908-13 GC/18

Tropical medicine. Nine short papers mostly later published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1908-11 MS.1729

Henry Cooper (1877-1947): ‘Native drugs from Somaliland and East Africa’, 1913 MS.1724/6

Professor Percy Cyril Claude Garnham (1901-1995): Notebooks, correspondence, photographs, etc, of work as protozoologist in the Colonial Medical Services in Kenya, 1925-47, and diaries of visits to Mauritius and East Africa, 1950, and to Tanganyika and Nairobi, 1957 PP/PCG

Charles Wilcocks (1896-1977): Unpublished autobiography, including chapters on work with the Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika, 1927-37 GC/55

National Birthday Trust (f.1928): Two files re women’s/maternity hospitals in Nairobi 1920s-30s SA/NBT

Major General Sir Leonard Rogers (1868-1962): files on ‘leprosy problems in British African areas’, including Tanganyika and Uganda, 1929 and 1941, and on the work of the British Leprosy Relief Association in East Africa, 1951-3 PP/ROG

Gwendoline Mary Walker: letters from nurse in Mozambique to friend, 1930-8, with photographs MS.8537

The Rev Dr Hubert Carey (Hugh) Trowell (1904-1989): Reminiscences of his work as physician and paediatrician in the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya, 1929-35, and at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1935-58; biography by his daughter; reprints of papers on anaemia and nutritional diseases PP/HCT

James Harry Sequeira (1865-1948): Letter written in Kenya, concerning diagnosis of a parasitic tropical disease (Molluscum contagiosum), 1937 MS.7606/7

George William Marshall Findlay (1893-1952): Unpublished typescript ‘Memorandum on yellow fever in Africa’ (c.1941), including appendices on Kenya and Tanganyika Territory; notebooks of abstracts and research notes contain material on African history and anthropology GC/14

John Bernard Davey (1875-1967), Principal Medical Officer, Tanganyika: memoranda and lectures on British administration in Tanganyika, tsetse fly, game preservation etc, 1944- c.1950 MSS.2046, 5677

Henry Foy (1900-1991) and Athena Kondi (d.1994): Research notes, photographs, correspondence and publications re haematological research on vitamin deficiencies in Kenya and Mozambique, c.1950-80 PP/FAK

George Macdonald (1903-1967): Correspondence with individuals and organisations, mainly on malaria, in East Africa, including East African Institute for Medical Research, East African Medical Research Council, East African Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, tours on professional business, involvement in research projects in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1950s-60s PP/MAC

Cicely Delphine Williams (1894-1992) : Reports and background notes on visits as consultant in maternal and child health to Tanganyika, Kenya and Uganda, 1950s, and to Tanganyika, 1971, and report, minutes and correspondence of the Frazer Committee on Medical and Health Policy in Uganda, 1955. Publications re health in Africa, especially re kwashiorkor PP/CDW

Family Planning Association (f.1930): Correspondence with family planning organisations and reports from clinics in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, 1950s-60s; a little correspondence with doctors and members of the public SA/FPA

Sir Harold Perceval Himsworth (1905-1993): Notes of tour of Medical Research Council stations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1951 PP/HPH/B/4

Philip Rainsford Evans (1910-1990): Diaries, reports and correspondence re planning and setting up of Paediatrics Department at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, 1952-72 PP/PRE

Air Marshal Sir Harold Whittingham (1887-1983): Notebooks with notes of inspections, as Director of Medical Services, BOAC, of airport medical and health facilities in Dar es Salaam, 1953 PP/HEW

Sir Christopher Andrewes (1896–1989), virologist: travel journal of trip to Africa 1953, includes lists of birds in Entebbe GC/168

P D Grant (b.1924): Reminiscences of work in the Government Medical Services, Tanganyika, 1954-62 GC/232

Queen’s Nursing Institute: District Nursing Overseas files include Kenya, Mauritius, and Tanganyika, 1955-69 SA/QNI/U.3

Ethiopia Pilot Mobile Health Team: Reports of WHO investigation, 1956-8, into the feasibility of provision of health care by a mobile team in a country without a road network GC/141

East African Tsetse And Trypanosomiasis Research And Reclamation Organisation: Photographs, 1958-61 WTI/EAT

Professor John Chassar Moir (1900-1977): Correspondence with the Fistula Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, re treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula, 1960-77 PP/JCM

R A McCance (1898-1993) and Elsie Widdowson (1908-2000): correspondence with the Medical Research Council Infant Malnutrition Unit, Kampala, Uganda, 1960s GC/97

Professor Sir Robert Macintosh (1897-1989): Correspondence re anaesthestics in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1961-80, and diary of visit to East Africa, 1962 PP/RRM

Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895-1987) : The papers of this bacteriologist, Director of the Public Health Laboratory Service in Britain, 1941-63, include journal and notes of visit to Uganda, 1962, to examine at Makerere Medical College, and reports, correspondence, etc, re visit to Ethiopia, 1964, to advise on the re-organisation and development of laboratory services PP/GSW

Stanley George Browne (1907-1986): Correspondence, minutes, reports and photographs re the establishment of ALERT (All-Africa Leprosy and Rehabilitation Training Centre), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1965-1971, n.d.; report on hospital at Bisidimo, Ethiopia, 1967; minutes of Medical Consultative Committee of the Mission to Lepers and the American Leprosy Missions, 1965, includes proposals for a training centre for leprosy rehabilitation for northern and eastern Africa in Addis Ababa; visits to Addis Ababa and Tanzania & Zambia in 1978, Kenya in 1979 WTI/SGB

International Confederation of Midwives: correspondence with Kenya (member country), Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania (non-member countries), 1960s-80s; ICM/WHO/UNICEF pre-Congress Workshops Midwifery Practice - Measuring, Developing and Mobilising Quality Care, in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, 1990s; Project Reports, Kenya, Mozambique, Susan, Tanzania, 1980s-90s; Report of the Anglophone East African Working Party, 1973 SA/ICM

Sir Alan Sterling Parkes (1900-1990): Files on the Nuffield Unit of Animal Ecology (Uganda), 1968-82 PP/ASP

Ciprian Emmanuel Amoroso: correspondence with colleague in Kampala, material re lecturing in Nairobi, 1970s-80s PP/AMO

Eldred Hugh Owen Parry (b. 1930): Questionnaires on disease in African countries, 1971-2 (for Principles of medicine in Africa, 1976), include Kenya and Sudan WTI/EHP

World Federation of Occupational Therapists: files relating to local associations in Kenya, 1976, and Uganda, 1986-9 SA/WFO