Letter (last page only) from P.L.G., Rue Broussais, Dinan (C. du N., France), to [?-----]: must avoid direct administration of Northern Western Rhodesia and rule through Lewanika; this will be difficult once the slavery question is encountered. Gell writes that “the country is absolutely unripe for any sudden revolution abolishing the custom of Slavery. Yet no one can doubt that if our Commissioners enforced the rights of the Slave owner or failed to treat the Slave as a freeman, our Charter would be in danger. So long as we can keep Lewanika in power, we avoid serious responsibilities of this sort, and also postpone a heavy increase in our expenditure”. c1900