Anderson, William Charles

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380270
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Anderson, William Charles
Date(s)	: Created 1921-1923
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Anderson | William Charles | b 1897 | cotton planter

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Charles Anderson was born 24 August 1897. In the early 1920s he worked as a cotton estate manager for Magunda estates in British Nyasaland on cotton plantations at Mbewe and Gonda.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1921-1923, of William Charles Anderson, comprising correspondence, personal papers and photographs. The papers concern his time working in British Nyasaland on the cotton plantations at Mbewe and Gonda. Also includes printed notes on The Treatment of Common Ailments Among Natives and a number of photographs of Anderson, the estate and estate workers.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The material has been sorted into three files: correspondence, personal documents and photographs.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1980.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000