IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 CWM/LMS Africa Personal Boxes 7-8
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Nutt, William Harwood
Date(s): 1892-1904
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Nutt | William Harwood | 1869-1943 | artisan missionary
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born at Beeston, near Nottingham, England, 1869; member of a Congregational chapel in Sheffield; appointed as a London Missionary Society (LMS) artisan assistant missionary in the Central Africa Mission; left England and arrived at Fwambo, 1892; settled at Kambole, 1894; returned to England on medical advice and resigned his connection with the LMS, 1896; died at Bournemouth, 1943.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, 1892-1904, of William Harwood Nutt, concerning his time with the London Missionary Society at Fwambo and Kambole in Central Africa, and comprising letters, 1892-1896, to and from his family and other correspondents; notes on supplies, 1892-1894; journals, 1892-1896, including notes on trips; meteorological registers, 1893-1895; surgical and medical records, 1894; three official papers on African affairs, 1895-1896; manuscripts, notes, and sketches, including maps, on Central Africa, its people, customs and beliefs, climate and topography; photographic negatives and prints of people and scenes; manuscript papers by Nutt on native treatment of disease in Central Africa, 1904.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The papers were deposited with the London Missionary Society and form part of the special series of personal papers of individual LMS missionaries and officers.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the London Missionary Society by the Congregational Council for World Mission (later Council for World Mission) in 1973.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Published on microfiche by IDC Publishers.
Related material:
The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS), including letters from individual missionaries, among them Nutt (Ref: CWM/LMS Central Africa Incoming Correspondence); Nutt's candidate's papers (Ref: CWM/LMS Candidates' Papers Box 12 No 29); three reports, including industrial, medical and surgical work, by Nutt at Fwambo, 1893, and Kambole, 1894 (Ref: CWM/LMS Central Africa Reports Box 1 Files 9-11). SOAS also holds photographs of central Africa, c1893-1902, possibly taken by Nutt (Ref: MS 380617 Wareham Box 1 File 1).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: LMS Register of Missionaries, ed James Sibree.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2002