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D3287 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - [13th-20th cent]

1 - Box 1

1-113 - Miscellaneous Family Papers

35 - Box 35 - [1698]-1880

104-105 - Personal papers of Mrs Aileen Gell (d1986) - 20th cent

106 - Diaries of Mrs Aileen Gell - early 20th cent

107 - Personal papers of Philip VW Gell (d1970) - 20th cent

108 - Letter from Prime Minister, Clement Attlee - 20th cent

109 - Correspondence and other papers regarding PVW Gell's term as High Sheriff - 1954

110 - Orders of service: Gell family members and relatives - 20th cent

111 - Orders of service: not Gell family - 20th cent

112 - School prospectuses - 20th cent

113 - Number not used - 20th cent

114

114 - GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE - 1869-1923

114-131 - Personal and family Papers of Philip Lyttetton Gell with The Remainder of his Business Papers - 1835-1969

115 - SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE - 1873-1919

116 - POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1881-1918

117 - PAPERS RELATING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN OXFORDSHIRE - 1880-1898

118 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCH FINANCE AND REFORM - 1880-1923

119 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO DIOCESAN REORGANISATION - 1889-1918

120 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE - 1898-[early 20th cent]

121 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT WITH CASSELL'S AND THE CLARENDON PRESS - 1883-1904

122 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO DIRECTORSHIPS OF COMPANIES - 1898-1925

123 - PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO TRUSTEESHIPS OF COMPANIES - 1899-1921

124 - PAPERS RELATING TO PERSONAL INVESTMENTS - 1890-1920

125 - MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1896-1918

126 - FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS - 1852-1969

127 - PERSONAL PAPERS - 1852-1913

128 - CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS RELATING TO TRUSTEESHIPS - 1891-1908

129 - MISCELLANEA - 1835-1949

130 - NEWSCUTTINGS - 1885-1923

131 - PAMPHLETS - 1870-1964

137 - Object: Escritoire - c.1845

BSA - British South Africa Company

1 - British South Africa Company: Directors' Reports & Accounts: Reports of Annual & Extraordinary Meetings of Shareholders

2 - British South Africa Company: Board minutes and agenda

3 - British South Africa Company: general papers.

1 - British South Africa Company: printed proof of balance sheet. - 1899 Mar 31

2 - Earl Grey to P.L.G.'s election to British South Africa Company board is settled; Rhodes will have him on so as to please G.; delay in his formal election - 1899 Apr 8

3 - W.H. Vivian, London E.C. to P.L.G. : glad to hear of directorship; purchase of shares in British South Africa Company - 1899 May 4

4 - E.T. Cook, Daily News, to P.L.G. : will make the announcement of his election in a useful way; has heard from Milner - 1899 May 10

5 - W.H. Vivian, London E.C. to P.L.G. : congratulations on election. - 1899 May 10

6 - Philip Gray, Cambridge [P.L.G.'s nephew] to P.L.G. : congratulations on election. - 1899 May 11

7 - Horace Hart, Oxon Univ. Press to P.L.G. : congratulations on election. - 1899 May 11

8 - Sidney Low, London to P.L.G. : has been dining with Rhodes, Jameson and others; was struck by their schoolboyishness - 1899 May 11

9 - J.A.R. Marriott, Univ. of Oxford Extension Delegacy to P.L.G. : congratulations; his resignation from the Delegacy - 1899 May 11

10 - Lord Morpeth, London W. to P.L.G. : congratulations. - 1899 May 11

11 - W.H. Vivian to P.L.G. : he must ensure that Rhodes does not dominate him. - 1899 May 11

12 - H. Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : congratulations; has just had a son born to him; will write a note for the African press - 1899 May 12

13 - J.F. Jones, British South Africa Company to P.L.G. : official notification of his election. - 1899 May 12

14 - B. Hawksley to P.L.G. : congratulations; has been busy since they met at Cook's; has just heard Bryce at Cambridge at the `80 Club dinner - 1899 May 14

15 - J.L. Waggett, Bayswater, to P.L.G. : congratulations. - 1899 May 14

16-22 - Misc. press cuttings re P.L.G.'s election. - 1899 May

23 - Pr. objection to the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University from various M.A.s re the award of a D.C.L. degree to Rhodes - 1899 Jun

24-26 - Earl Grey to P.L.G. : telegrams that Rhodes is to take the degree as arranged; objections to the award - 1899 Jun 19

27-28 - P.L.G. : draft letters to the press objecting to the controversy over the award to Rhodes - 1899 Jun

29 - P.L.G. : note of certain shareholders & their holdings in the British South Africa Company - 1899

30 - P.L.G. to G.E. Buckle (ed. The Times) : is concerned about present tendency to laud Schreiner; his faults; Milner so far successful in splitting the Bond - 1900 Jun 13

31 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : has laid his 1tr. before the board; has received from Hawksley the Asiatic Immigration Ordinance; P.L.G. to write to Milner on the subject - 1900 Aug 9

32 - A. Beit to P.L.G. : thanks for sight of letter re Indian labour in South Africa from Ld. Curzon. - [?1900] Aug 16

33 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : has been drafting mining laws; has succeeded in "assaulting Arnold Forster's prejudices", enclosed correspondence [not found]; has seen Curzon's letter, has doubts as to viability of Indian labour - [?1900] Aug 18

34 - Birchenough, Berlin to P.L.G. : is touring his foreign factories; would like to come in on [British Exploration of Australasia Ltd.]; queries re times of board meetings, directors' qualification, etc.; arrangements for meeting with P.L.G. & St. John Brodrick - [?1900] Oct 26

35 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : asks him to use his influence on St. John Brodrick to obtain an army commission for his brother Frank; enclosed a short curriculum vitae. - [?1900] Nov 3

36 - J.F. Jones to P.L.G. : is glad P.L.G. was able to speak with Brodrick re orders [?for guns] as he is anxious about delay; Wankie coal prospects; growth in railway traffic, high profits on Salisbury-Beira line - [?1900] Nov 17

37 - Birchenough, Macclesfield to P.L.G. : time of dinner with Brodrick; looks forward to discussion of [B. Ex. A.] with [A. E.] Morgans - [?1900] [Nov]

38 - Birchenough, London E.C. to P.L.G. : has been discussing his venture in Australia with colleagues on Imperial Continental Gas Assoc.; inadvisable that he enters any speculation at present - [?1900] [Nov]

39 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : must withdraw from proposed venture, cannot overcome opposition of his colleagues. - 1900 Nov 21

40 - Birchenough, Macclesfield to P.L.G. : has now decided to come in with him, has wired Stokes & Brodrick to this effect; Gas Assoc. colleague's uneasiness overcome - 22 Nov 1900

41 - Birchenough, London W. to P.L.G. : discusses flotation in connection with B. Ex. A. & board routine; has confidence in Morgans - 1900 Dec 12

42 - P.L.G. to [a member of the Colonial Office staff] : thinks the C.O. should publicly exonerate the British South Africa Company from any complicity in their officials' actions in the Jameson Raid; poor relations of the Company and C.O. - [1900]

43 - Jones to P.L.G. : British South Africa Company board affairs; deliveries of 'champagne bottles' [i.e. guns] taking up much time. - [1900] Sep 5

43-61 - File re Ehrhardt Guns, Boer War Scandal & cheap railway stock in South Africa - [1900] Sep-Dec

45 - Jones to Sir Hy. Brackenbury, War Office : availability of guns for British forces; evasion of initial difficulties of supply - [1900] Nov 7

46 - Brackenbury to Jones : unable to place further orders; will put the 18 batteries already received on field trial; grateful for Jones's help - [1900] Nov 8

47 - St. J. Brodrick, F.O., to P.L.G. : will see him re the guns; busy with Privy Council & move to War Office - [1900] Nov 10

48 - Albert Jenner, Port Drift, Crocodile River, South Africa to Wilson Fox : gen. account of war in relation to Rhodesia; need to get Carrington recalled from his command as he has no men left to direct - [1900] Nov 12

49 - Brodrick, War Office, to P.L.G. : thinks it difficult to place more orders for guns. - [1900] Nov 20

50 - Financial News : cutting reporting purchase of Ehrhardt guns & partially explaining interest of British South Africa Company in the matter - [1900] [Dec]

51-53 - Anon. report on poor state of English military security and large scale of French espionage operation in England; names Capt. Graham as one who indulged in spying for the French; gives account of his own dealing with the French. With notes by P.L.G. re Graham, Rosendorf [?the author of the report] and Carrington's recall - 1900 Dec

54-56 - Lists, unsigned & by P.L.G., of cheap railway materials available from Dutch & American cos. initially constructed for S. African railways but now undeliverable owing to state of war - [1900 Dec]

57 - Edmund Talbot, War Office, to P.L.G. : Brodrick will forward to proper people information about sale of cheap materials. - 1900 Dec 11

58 - Gerard Craig Sellar, C.O. to P.L.G. : will see what can be done to obtain the materials for own use - 1900 Dec 19

59 - Brackenbury to Jones : thanks for his letter declining offer of £1,000 for his services re Ehrhardt guns - 1901 Apr 20

60 - P.L.G. : rough pencil notes for undisclosed meeting - [?1900]

61 - Folder, endorsed by P.L.G., for above docs

62 - Frank, Bloemfontein, to Will : long account of his wartime experiences; opinion of the army, strategy, etc.; prospects. Endorsed by P.L.G. `Strictly confidential - for your private information.' - 1901 Feb 11

63 - Daily Telegraph : letter to editor from `Ivanhoe', in defence of Lord Milner. - 1901 Mar 9

64 - Birchenough, Paris, to P.L.G. : will come to next board of B. Ex. A. though there can be little to do until Morgans begins; impressed by Brodrick as Secretary for War; in favour of universal military service; has not realised that `Ivanhoe' was Iwan-Muller; would prefer Milner not to be defended in that journalistic style. - 1901 Mar 10

65 - E.A.S. Gell [a cousin of P.L.G.], Fourteen Streams, South Africa, to Edith Gell - 14 Mar 1901

66 - G. Craig Sellar, C.O., to P.L.G. : has consulted with F.O. on subject of publication of papers by British South Africa Company & they concur with view that such action would hinder agreement with Porgugal on S. African question. [Subject not stated.] - 1901 Jun 26

67 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : glad to hear of his intent to have a talk with Milner; need to improve relations of Company and C.O.; poor treatment by C.O. re Lewanika and Rhodesian Field Force; need to agree with Portugal over E. Coast labour. - 1901 Jul 13

68 - P.L.G. to Jones : has read reports of Southern Rhodesia Leg. Company, disappointed at lack of advances made in past year; unwise for Company to issue detailed report, should combine one with that for 1901-2. - 1901 Aug 24

70 - P.L.G. to Sargant : was asked to recruit teachers by Milner; impressions of South Africa teaching; need for practical training of natives; comments on memorandum enclosed above. - [1901] Aug 26

71 - Sargant to P.L.G. : will write to Mr. Cresswell, has seen Blakiston. - [1901] Sep 3

72 - Mary Hervey, Morpeth Mansions, S.W., to P.L.G. : Bd. of Education should discover the political sympathies of any teachers sent to the refugee camps of South Africa; asks him to cable Milner to this effect. - [1901] Nov 23

73 - Pr. programme of memorial service to C.J. Rhodes held in St. Paul's. [2 copies.] - 1902 Apr 10

74 - R. Chester Master, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : convinced that Jameson is the most popular choice as local rep. of the British South Africa Company; local feeling that few directors are men of business with local knowledge. - 1902 Jun 9

75 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : will try to get Standard Bank to appoint Lomas; disagrees with Suspensionists, has no faith in Sprigg; intends to get into Assembly to protect British South Africa Company & de Beers interests. - 1902 Aug 5

76 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : British South Africa Company is poorly represented in Blue Book on Native Labour; Sekombe & possible armed action against him has been settled; red-water disease still causing heavy losses. - 1902 Aug 8

77 - P.L.G. to Grey : need to clarify Michell's position in South Africa; must solve problem of relationship of Codrington & Coryndon with Milton & Southern Rhodesia - 1902 Sep 26

78 - A. Beit to P.L.G. : sorry he cannot arrange meeting with FitzPatrick; P.L.G.'s idea for a railway from Mafeking to Transvaal is good. - 20 Feb [1900-1902]

79 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : will call on Michell immediately he reaches Cape Town. - 1903 Jan 3

80 - Jones, St. Albans, to P.L.G. : accounts of audience with the King & interview with Gerald Balfour re monopoly created by shipping cos. for South Africa freights. - 1903 Jan 5

81 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : is against any move to establish a committee. of South Africa directors to act for the board. - 1903 Jan 23

82 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : thanks for intro. to Birchenough of the Bd. of Trade; Bd. of Trade should involve itself in South Africa, where German influence is in the ascendant; high cost of living militates against anglicisation of South Africa; met Milton & Chamberlain in Johannesburg. - 1903 Jan 24

83 - Jones, St. Albans, to P.L.G. : thanks for criticisms of his report; met Lord Onslow who is keen on the shipping business. - 1903 Jan 25

84 - Harold Sessions, Gloucester, to P.L.G. : return from South Africa where he has been looking for land; present boom in farm land; problems of animal diseases in South Africa; has been asked to act for a co. to export pedigree livestock, is to go to Spain to obtain donkeys and mules for South Africa; is to marry Maggie Gell; sorry not to have visited Southern Rhodesia - 1903 Mar 9

85 - D. of Abercorn, Barons Court, Ireland, to P.L.G. : grief at loss of son of Prince of Thurn & Taxis; worried at Grey's illness; labour question in South Africa; local news. - 1903 Mar 10

86 - P.L.G. to Jones : need for board to maintain strict control over any legislation initiated in Southern Rhodesia - 1903 Mar 21

87 - Abercorn to P.L.G. : reception of P.L.G.'s letter at last board meeting; Grey proposed that £10,000 should be spent on St. Louis International Exhibition in publicising Rhodesia; £2,000 should suffice. - 1903 Apr 1

88 - C. Annesley Gell, London E.C., to J.R.A. Gell : prospects of various Rhodesian land settlement ventures, esp. Col. Hill's; J.R.A. Gell's prospects, possibilities of his leaving Victoria, Southern Rhodesia [Copy, see also D3287 BSA/5/109.] - 1903 May 16

89 - Birchenough, Macclesfield, to P.L.G. : his trip to South Africa, news of Milner; hopes all is well with B. Ex. A. - 1903 May 31

90 - P.L.G. to Wilson Fox : suggests that Chairman's speech at Gen. Meeting should mention the poor record of German colonies in comparison with Rhodesia in all aspects save exports. - 1903 Jun 3

91 - J. Percy FitzPatrick, Johannesburg, to P.L.G. : is convinced Asiatic labour in South Africa would be a mistake. - 1903 Jun 6

92 - F.E. Knottesford-Fortescue, Zeerut, to P.L.G. : account of his work as sub-inspector of schools, esp. re starting new schools in the veldt; teaching shortage, need for married couples; desires new job, possibly in Northern Rhodesia - 1903 Jun 23

93-94 - P.L.G. to Mr. Mott [also to `Lord Eustace', which name is placed in parentheses] : advice on Rhodesian investments. [2 copies, one to Mr. Mott only & a later draft than the first.] - 1903 Jul 3/4

95 - P.L.G. to Michell : introduces his bro.-in-law Archibald Campbell, Provost of St. Ninian's Perth; success of enlarged Leg. Company in Southern Rhodesia; antagonism of Chamberlain & C.O. - 1903 Aug 7

96 - C.W. Hawkin, Chiswick, to P.L.G. : has read his letter to The Times; Boer atrocities to natives at Mafeking; British conduct of the war. - 1903 Sep 24

97 - [?P.L.G. to British South Africa Company] : offers a loan towards the payment of a dividend to shareholders so as to restore confidence. [This is endorsed British South Africa by P.L.G., but is more probably addressed to a Rhodesian co.]. - 1903 Sep 25

98 - Geo. T. Goldie, London, to P.L.G. : looks forward to meeting him. - 1903 Oct 26

99-100 - Education Committee, S.A.C.S. : reports by Miss Denison on employment facilities for ladies in South Africa & on conditions of life for young female migrants. - 1903 Oct

101 - P.L.G. to Jones : complains at failure, esp. of the peers & South Africa politicians, of the directors to publicly defend the Company's activities; lack of policy on the board; need for enlargement of the board. - 1903 Dec 9

102 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : he & Maguire have considered P.L.G.'s draft on Indian labour; have omitted criticisms of South Africa & of the government; would like to discuss memorandum on Northern Rhodesia mining law. - 1904 Jan 8

103 - [?R. Iwan] Smith, London E.C., to P.L.G. : recommends that Owen Thomas's report be sent out to shareholders. - 1904 Feb 3

104 - Jones to P.L.G. : thanks for criticisms of draft prospectus for [unstated] company; British South Africa Company's guarantee is operative after the railway co.'s is exhausted; would like him to be a trustee with Gifford & Abercorn; must have news soon as Erlanger wishes to place the prospectus before his continental friends. - 1904 Feb 4

105 - P.L.G. to A. Beit : proposals for reorganisation of secretarial & financial management of the Company as a result of Jones's death; comments on members of staff; essential that new men have no interest in subsidiary cos. & do not indulge in stock market activities as did Jones. - 1904 Feb 13

106-107 - W.H. Vivian, London, E.C., to P.L.G. : moves to remove Davis from chairmanship of [?Wankie] board; need for British South Africa Company support; Davis a bad recommendation for shares; Wankie will fall in price. - 1904 Feb 16, 25

108 - Charles S. Parker, Liverpool, to P.L.G. : was at Oxford with P.L.G.; would like advice as to the future of British South Africa shares. [C. Sandbach Parker, b.1864, later a member of Commission Internationale de Ravitaillement.] - 1904 Feb 27

109 - Maguire, Monte Carlo, to P.L.G. : concerned that the Company should enter new pension schemes relating to civil police in Southern Rhodesia; must set limit to expenditure in Southern Rhodesia whilst carrying out policy of retrenchment. - 1904 Mar 15

110 - Geo. T. Goldie, London W., to P.L.G. : should delay talk about Rhodesia till he has mastered the facts; is sure the share market is at the root of the Company's problems. - 1904 Mar 22

111 - W.H. Vivian, London E.C., to P.L.G. : was offended at British South Africa Company's letter [?rejecting suggestion that Davis should be made to retire.] - 1904 Apr 11

112 - J. Wells, Wadham Coll., Oxford, to P.L.G. : has a student most fitted for work in Rhodesia if it could be found. [Joseph Wells, b.1855, fellow & tutor of Wadham.] - 1904 Jun 20

113 - Lord Morpeth, London W., to P.L.G. : pleased to go onto British South Africa Company board if elected; initial doubts about attendance. - 1904 Jul 3

114 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : approves of his letter to The Times; discovery of banket is almost certainly confirmed, would strengthen their hands. - 1904 Aug 31

115-116 - Daily Express : cuttings re the forthcoming British South Africa Company share issue. - 1904 Sep 22, 23

117-121 - S.P. Adams, Hexworthy; J.P. Boddy, York; Jn. Elger, E. Lyss; Percy Powell, Cardiff; `An Old Shareholder'; to British South Africa Company: complaints or comments on new share issue so soon after balance of the old issue had been paid up. - 1904 Sep 22, 23

122 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : impressed by his letter to The Times; Rhodesian delegates are ignorant of the facts of the case; need for retrenchment in Southern Rhodesia; danger of interference by High Commr., though Milner generally friendly. - 1904 Sep 30

123 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : suggests that H. mentions to the Committee now reviewing London Office expenses that Fox should not be permitted to sit on boards of subsidiary cos.; such seats should be delegated to the Managers & the fees paid into British South Africa Company's account. [3 copies.] - 1904 Oct 15

124 - Michell, Kimberley, to P.L.G. : weakness of the Rhodesian delegates' case. - 1904 Nov 7

125 - L. Hirsch & Company: letter from British South Africa Company & reply from Hirsch, re payment of their account for underwriting new share issue. - 1904 Dec 9, 10

126 - P.L.G. : rough notes for memorandum to shareholders re prospects of the Company & reasons for new issue. - [1904]

127 - P.L.G. to Jameson : reminds him of the strategic importance of Great Fish Bay; dangers of Portuguese weakness; has heard of its use by Russian fleet as coaling station; Cape Govt. should recommend its seizure by U.K. - 1905 Jan 31

128 - [---], Oxford, to P.L.G. : asks his help in quashing the unjustified dismissal of Wm. Low from the Printing & Stationery Department, Salisbury. [Last page missing.] - 1905 Feb 9

129 - African World : phot. portrait of B. Hawksley. - 1905 Feb 25

130 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : letter from Prof. MacIver re Zimbabwe ruins, his theory of 14th cent. construction; is at present negotiating with South Africa rlwys. over Rhodesian Rlwys.' proposal to cut Beira rates & develop the port; does not want price war with Cape Rlwys. [David Randall-MacIver, archaeologist & anthropologist, 1873-1945 - 1905 Aug 31

131 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : agrees that sound Rhodesian cos. should have their offices at London Wall; poor health of Col. Frank Rhodes; glad he approved of his financial memorandum, now scrutinising financial policy; thinks De Beers agreement should be scrapped. - 1905 Sep 19

132 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : thanks for note re native taxation; effect of increases, need for extension to migrant workers. - 1905 Sep 26

133 - Michell, Wilson Fox : memorandums re finances of British South Africa Company, Fox's criticising Michell's memorandum; means of raising Southern Rhodesia income, cutting back on expenditure & selling rlwys. to new company. - 1905 Sep

134 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : need for natives to assist in increased expenditure on eradication of cattle disease, difficulty of forcing them without racialistic laws; suggests interview with C.O. & Lyttelton to discuss whole issue of native taxes. - 1905 Oct 2

135 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : fall in share prices due to European situation & fear of bank rate at 5%. - 1905 Oct 30

136 - Percy Lindley, London E.C., to British South Africa Company: repeats questions he asked at shareholders' meeting re shortfall on amount paid out in rlwy. debentures, market value of British South Africa Company share holdings; with draft replies by Secretary - 1905 Nov 23

137 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : perturbed after reading his letter; if he cannot agree with the policy of the Company he must resign. - 1905 Dec 4

138 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : his criticisms made from the inside, would never voice them publicly; answers to his points are being avoided by directors; has no intention of resigning. - 1905 Dec 6

139 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : civil service leave in Rhodesian; is surprised at Selborne's objections to withdrawal of rlwy. passes to civil servants. - 1905 Dec 27

140 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : critique of the Company's past policy, esp. re rlwys., mines, power & land development; Michell alone has saved them; need to build up commercial revenue; lack of leadership in the executive; critical of Wise's appointment; has offered to visit Rhodesia himself; terms upon which a commercial manager should be appointed. - 1905 Dec

141 - Oliver Howard, Bautchi [Bauchi], Northern Nigeria, to P.L.G. : recommends Nantes, who worked under him at Bornu, but who has since fallen out with his superior and is applying for work in Rhodesia. [Copy letter by P.L.G.] - 1906 Mar 3

142 - Sir J. Percy FitzPatrick, Johannesburg, to P.L.G. : replies to his suggestion of a petition to the King to enable South Africa to gain independence from interference from Radicals in U.K.; policy of the Transvaal Progressive Assoc.; South Africa should not seem resentful after sacrifices made by U.K. during the war; enclosed press cutting re T.P.A. meeting & T.P.A. manifesto. - 1906 May 10

143 - Wm. Gray, carver, gilder & picture dealer, Halifax, to P.L.G. : holds many Chartered shares; concerned about the future of the Company; seeks advice on investment. - 1906 Oct 30

144 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : sorry he was not at the board meeting; election of Ld. Winchester & appointment of Maguire as Vice-Pres. - 1906 Dec 20

145 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : no deep plan for Maguire's appointment; he felt that it should be made before election of new director, Ld. Winchester, & suggested Maguire to Ld. Gifford as he had thought his name canvassed amongst directors beforehand; everyone, including Maguire, was surprised. - 1906 Dec 24

146 - Maguire, Chatsworth, to P.L.G. : knew nothing of proposal to nominate him Vice-Pres. - 1906 Dec 28

147 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : outline his views on exact nature, constitution & emoluments of the proposed Committee of management which is to take over day-to-day running of Company's affairs. - 1906 Dec 29

148 - P.L.G. to Michell : concerned re Victoria Falls Power Company; need for all decisions of the board to be carefully recorded so as to answer any queries from shareholders; danger of locking up capital, thus forcing another share issue in 1908/9; also concerned at Fox's rôle in the business, even though his profits from the Victoria Falls Concession have been declared. [Endorsed `Not sent'.] - 1906 Dec 29

149 - P.L.G. : draft memorandum of proposal for Committee of Management. - [1906 Dec]

150 - P.L.G. : 1 part of draft letter re Committee of Management. - 1906 Dec

151 - British South Africa Company: printed text of President's speech at general meeting of Company - 1906

152 - Wm. Gray, Halifax, to P.L.G.: seeks further advice on share prices & movements. - 1906

153 - Birchenough, Lynton, to P.L.G. : agrees with his fears over Broken Hill; future action re Davis & the mine; need for creation of freight traffic; land settlement; creation of further central farm. - ?1906

154 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : has seen his memorandum re a new land settlement department; is loath to create new posts, Land Settlement Committee can deal with all points arising out of reports of Gordon & Wise. - 1907 Jan 28

155 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : criticism of Company's excessive concern with minerals; failure of the railways; need to create rlwy. revenue via land settlement; Maguire's lack of interest in this. - 1907 Mar 1

156 - Brodie & Hawksley. correspondence re opinion of F.B. Palmer re legality of retaining Earl Grey as trustee of the £1,250,000 debentures even though he is absent from England. - 1907 Feb-Mar

157 - P.L.G. to Jameson : suggests consideration of problems arising out of double-taxation of colonials' British investment income both in U.K. & their home country. - 1907 Apr 16

158 - Wm. Gray, Halifax, to P.L.G. : seeks further advice on shares. - 1907 Apr 27

159 - P.L.G. to Maguire : his ideas on Hole's place in London Office; need for a second man to oversee general business as Wilson Fox is too heavily involved in outside business; should take advantage of Fox's absence to re-organise the management; need for more adventurous exploitation of Rhodesia; Ackermann should be given greater freedom in the Mines Department; suggests formation of new co. for commercial exploitation of Rhodesia, with Birchenough as chairman & [?Herbert T. Scharrer (name heavily deleted)] as manager. - 1907 Apr 30

160 - British South Africa Company to P.L.G. : notification of his & Milner's appointment as Trustees, with Earl Grey, for the Debenture Holders. - 1907 Apr 30

161 - British South Africa Company: deed of appointment of new trustees of the debenture trust deed. - 1907 May 31

162 - Maguire to P.L.G. : feels that his letter (D3287 BSA/3/159 above) should be circulated. - 1907 May 16

163 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : endorses what he said at the board re appointment of Marshall Hole. - 1907 Jun 20

164 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : critical of purchase of 27,000 shares in unstated subsidiary co. by British South Africa - 1907 Jun 29

165 - P.L.G. : draft memorandum re constitution of Standing Committee or Committee of Management. - 1907 [Jan-Jun]

166 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : is to be sent Selborne's minute re South Africa federation; defects of office routine whereby he does not get sight of all important documents. - 1907 Jul 6

167 - P.L.G. to Michell : procedure for dealing with papers from Salisbury, deficiency of London Office organisation, need for departmentalisation; lack of attention from Fox on these matters. - 1907 Jul 6

168 - Birchenough, R.M.S. `Saxon', to P.L.G. : thanks for advice re his trip to Southern Rhodesia with Winchester as Visiting Director; their problems similar to those met in 1902, 1903, 1904 & by Goldie; financial importance of the railways; political change must wait on financial improvement; Davis must make Broken Hill a success. - 1907 Jul 8

169 - Wilson Fox, R.M.S. `Kenilworth Castle', to P.L.G.: will interest himself in the Civil Service & agriculture & convert Milton over to his way of thinking. - 1907 Jul 17

170 - D.E. Brodie to P.L.G. : Hichens would not be available for post of Commercial Rep. in Southern Rhodesia for 8 months; Hichens heard of offer through Sir Geo. Farrar; discusses Hichens's, Gregory's & Scharrer's qualifications for the post. - 1907 Aug 8

171 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : has written to Tilden Smith; is circulating letter from Just at the C.O. re Lewanika Concession, fears a hard deal from the C.O. - 1907 Aug 16

172 - P.L.G. to Michell : suggestions for agenda of Visiting Directors re new land settlement scheme; proposals for raising rail revenue. - 1907 Aug

173 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : office arrangements; answers P.L.G.'s criticisms re railway capitalisation & debentures. - 1907 Sep 3

174 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : thanks for letter - 1907 Sep 7

175 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : taking steps to publicise Victoria Falls Power Company; Barrow thinks he can make sufficient saving on Beira railway to pay the debenture coupon in default & reduce the deficit; schemes for retrenchment. - 1907 Sep 18

176 - Winchester, Salisbury, to P.L.G. : regrets misunderstanding re his ltrs. to the board; difficulties of Wise's position; red tape in land settlement procedure; his visit to Southern Rhodesia - 1907 Oct 11

177 - Birchenough, Salisbury, to P.L.G. : thought all his ltrs. to London were being circulated; success on political front; land settlement scheme; negotiations re mining royalty; Fox's visits to mines; Hawksley's negotiations with settlers re title to land. - 1907 Oct 12

178 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : action taken by himself & Gifford to stop drop in share prices; Wilson Fox disliked in the City; problems resulting from drop of shares below par. - 1907 Oct 16

179 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : board decision re communications between London & Visiting Directors. - 1907 Oct 24

180 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : sends letter from Birchenough; has moved for an examination of administration of Victoria Falls Power Company; V.F.P. Company spending heavily, thanks to Armstrong & Fox, & may be forced to call on British South Africa Company for help; libellous article in Sketch re Company - 1907 Oct 25

181 - [---], 4 & 6 Copthall Ave., London E.C., to P.L.G. : poor record of British South Africa Company shares, need for action. - [1907] Oct 25

182 - P.L.G. to Michell : concern at communications maintained between London & Visiting Directors; disagrees with Jameson's proposal to deal with mining royalties by legislation; need to curb malice of Sketch & Morning Post; need to reform administration of the Company - [1907] Oct 27

183 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : hopes the board will take iniative now he has come back from Southern Rhodesia; has prepared new memorandum on finance & policy. [Letter incomplete.] - [1907] Nov 16

184 - Winchester, Amport St. Mary's, to P.L.G. : defends their actions when in Southern Rhodesia; his reforms in land settlement & reorganisation of Wise's post. - [1907] Nov 18

185 - Wilson Fox : memorandum as to future finance & policy of the Company together with recommendation for statement to shareholders at next general meeting. - [1907] Nov 23

186 - Wm. Gray, Halifax, to P.L.G. : drop in shares; seeks further advice. - 1907 Nov 25

187 - Michell : memorandum re finance; lack of liquidity; need to raise more capital from debentures. [2 copies.] - 1907 Dec 2

188 - Birchenough, Southampton, to P.L.G. : will produce a statement so as to tackle Neumann; cannot understand Michell's failure to produce that which they needed; agrees that their proposals to South Africa should be in writing. [?Sigismund Neumann (1857-1916, 1st bart. 1912), sole partner in S. Neumann & Company & on board of African Banking Corp.] - 1907 Dec 5

189 - P.L.G. to Michell : regrets having to stand alone in opposition to proposal to fix mineral royalties by ordinance, should be done by civil contract; must do as he did over guarantee for Broken Hill extension. - 1907 Dec 14

190 - P.L.G. : draft memorandum re re-organisation of British South Africa Company & obtaining of further capital. - 1907 Dec

191 - P.L.G. : complaint at unfair tax burden born by British registered cos. [P.2 only of draft letter] - 1907

192 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : gen. critique of policy & leadership of Company; principals underlying concessions made in Southern Rhodesia by Visiting Directors; Maguire's lack of skill in commercial matters; Victoria Falls Power Company too time-consuming. - [?1907]

193 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : profits being made in land sales by Rhodesian Lands Company; cannot understand why British South Africa Company is not doing the same. - [?1907]

194 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : thanks for advice; will write exactly what he wishes with regard to their trip. - [?1907]

195 - P.L.G. to Michell : need for re-organisation of staff; insufficient manpower at London Office; comparison of British South Africa Company staffing with that of Guardian Assurance Company - [1907]

196 - P.L.G. : draft letter re appointment of Gregory as commercial rep. in Bulawayo; disapproves of the appointment proceeding the analysis of the work he is required to do. [3rd. part of letter only.] - [1907]

197 - P.L.G. : draft letter to [?Maguire] re re-organisation of the Company; need for better management; danger of a shareholders' committee; areas in which investigation would reflect badly on the Company [Last part of letter only.] - [1907]

198 - P.L.G. : fragmentary note re scheme for a tontine debenture. - [1907]

199 - P.L.G. : draft memorandum re duties of a board towards the executive management of a co. with respect to overseeing & creating the proper administration. - [1907]

200 - British South Africa Company: estimate of commercial revenue 1908-9. - 1908 Jan 29

201 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : enclosed press-cutting that Hawksley is to enter full-time employ of British South Africa Company in order to assist in new expansionist policies; does not know who inspired the article; would welcome the move if it meant a real change of heart by Hawksley, hitherto "the embodiment of procrastination". - 1908 Feb 8

202 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : is preparing final draft of new appeal for capital; reception does not seem discouraging. - 1908 Feb 18

203 - Wm. Lucy, Wadebridge; R. Cork, Liverpool; Herbert T. Scharrer, London E.C.; T.E. Ward, Redhill : comments, as shareholders, on proposed new issue & impending general meeting. - 1908 Feb 25, 26

204 - Michell, St. Albans, to P.L.G. : sailing to South Africa, will return in May; success of general meeting of the Company & of Maguire. - 1908 Feb 26

205 - Press cutting re new issue by British South Africa Company - [1908 Feb]

206 - Maguire to P.L.G. : gives some advice to pass on to enquiring shareholder. - 1908 Mar 2

207 - Erlanger to Wilson Fox : proposals for raising money should new share issue not be supported. - 1908 Mar 9

208 - Wm. Grey, Halifax, to P.L.G. : prospects of shares & of new issue. - 1908 Mar 15

209 - Chas. de Pass, London E.C., to British South Africa Company: objects to recent flotation, would like to know of any legal objection to reconstruction. - 1908 Mar 17

210 - Jn. W. & Edith Harvie, Liverpool, to British South Africa Company: objections to new issue; copy letter from J.W.H. to Financial Times re new issue. [2 copies of letter to F.T.] - 1908 Mar 14 - 18

211 - British South Africa Company: statement of P.L.G.'s fees as Debenture Trustee. - 1908 Mar 31

212 - Walter Rowley, Leeds, to British South Africa Company: enquires re success of new issue; need for administration economy. - 1908 Apr 9

213 - R.V. Glover, Liverpool, to British South Africa Company: need for publicity of British South Africa Company activities in order to gain public confidence. - 1908 Apr 10

214 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : not sure whether present arrangements with the debenture holders are entirely satisfactory; need to raise more capital with next two years; possibility of working up sufficient interest in Rhodesia on the stock market to push shares up to par again. - 1908 Apr 16

215 - A.J. Madan, Eastbourne, to P.L.G. : has recently seen Mr. Murray, the publisher, who suggested a complete edition of Livingstone's works; has to return to Africa, wondered if Gell knew anyone suitable to edit them. - 1908 May 2

216 - P.L.G. to Jameson : wonders if anything has been done as result of Stevens's adverse report on the Victoria Falls Hotel management: Charter suffers from lack of concentrated attention of its railway directors; need for much more time to be given to Company business. - 1908 May 11

217 - A.J. Madan, Gloucester, to P.L.G. : thanks for suggestions re Livingstone's works, has mentioned de Laessoe to Mr. Murray. - 1908 May 12

218 - British South Africa Company: report of Committee appointed to enquire into organisation and work of London Office; with marginal notes by P.L.G. re its recommendations. - 1908 May 20

219 - P.L.G. : draft resolutions for the Board to adopt re appointment and functions of a new Executive Director. - 1908 May 23

220-221 - P.L.G. : draft memorandums re Committee's recommendations for re-organisation of London office. - [1908 May, Jun]

222 - Wm. Gray, Halifax, to P.L.G. : would like to know if Chartered shares will be above 20/- in near future. - 1908 Jul 7

223 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : glad he agrees that the Southern Rhodesia Education Ordinance should not overlook present purveyors of education, esp. the Jesuits; interested by his correspondence with Hawksley re Victoria Falls Power Company, obviously touched him on a sore point by accusing him of dilatoriness. - 1908 Aug 6

225 - P.L.G. to Michell : discussion of the failings of Rhodesian railways; mainly due to the amateurishness of the directors; need for concentrated professional attention in the same way as the Australian Broken Hill railway received; in the case of the Rhodesian Broken Hill extension, the problem has remained, unsolved, since 1906. - 1908 Aug 28

226 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : Rhodesia Lands should strain every nerve to get out of grips of the Charter Trust; is sure that Company's action re Wankies was justified. - 1908 Sep 7

227-228 - Hawksley, Crewe, Maguire and Sir F. Hopwood : correspondence re Govt.'s inability to help the British South Africa Company in payments on railway debentures; dangers of crises in the City if the announcement of non-payment of debenture interest has to be made. [Lord Crewe, Colonial Secretary; Sir Francis Hopwood, Under-Secretary of State for Colonies.] - 1908 Aug 28 - Sep 10

229 - Winchester, Amport St. Mary's, to P.L.G. : the Company will be able to pay on the railway debentures; comments on the structure of the London board and on Milton; objects of the new commercial staff in Southern Rhodesia, need to encourage native agriculture, etc., so as to evade problems such as in Natal; diamond agreement with de Beers. - 1908 Sep 12

230 - Maguire to P.L.G. : when a private letter between two directors is handed into the office then he assumes that it should be circulated to the rest of the board; will take letter out of circulation if P.L.G. so wishes. - 1908 Sep 29

231 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : agrees that there is need for greater concentration of energy of the staff; is confident in the possibilities of the new railway extension; enclosed 1tr. from Jameson making offer of new post with the Company if he resigns all his other directorships. - 1908 Oct 3

232 - Winchester to P.L.G. : position of the Victoria Falls Power Company; negotiations with Williams of Tanganyika Concessions re railway debentures and carriage of copper. - 1908 Oct 3

233 - Winchester to P.L.G. : negotiations with Williams over the northern extnesion of the railway. - 1908 Oct 6

234 - Wilson Fox : memorandum, on financial position of the Company - 1908 Oct 6

235 - P.L.G. : short notes re point to be put to the Board re railway debentures. - [1908]

236 - P.L.G. : note re finance. - [1908]

237 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : need to counteract gloomy attitude to Company affairs; defends his policies esp. re railways against criticisms by Michell. [Last part only.] - [?1908]

238 - Birchenough's position as Executive Director : correspondence between Birchenough, Maguire, Hawksley and Gell re offer of another post, in Constantinople, to Birchenough and his subsequent queries as to the permanence of the arrangement effected in the British South Africa Company re-organisation of 1908; comments by Gell on Birchenough's inability to stand up against Fox, and the inadequate hours of attendance put in on British South Africa Company business in relation to time spent on railways, other companies or outside commitments. - 1908 Nov 22 - 1909 Mar 7

239 - Maguire to P.L.G. : recommendations as to renewal of Birchenough's agreement as member of the Executive Committee - 1909 Mar 7

240 - Brodie : memorandum enclosed request by Marshall Hole for access to Company records to compile a history of the Company; recommends acceptance of suggestion so long as all work is scrutinised before publication; disagrees with suggestion that Hole's right of access should be exclusive. - 1909 Mar 16

241 - 5½% Debenture Stock : 1tr. from P.L.G. to Maguire, Brodie to Hawksley and reply, and memorandum by Bolton on P.L.G.'s 1tr. re impending conversion of Debentures into shares in spring of 1910 and consequent dangers to the British South Africa Company - 1909 Aug

242 - O. Beit, Paris, to P.L.G. : thanks for expressions of support on election as vice-president. - 1909 Oct 3

243 - P.L.G. to Jameson : need for greater devotion of time and energies of directors and managers to Company business; need to settle and define the position of manager; failure of Winchester Michell and Birchenough to effect anything definite on this question. - [c.1909]

244 - P.L.G. to Jameson : dangers to the Company of Hawksley's inability to get through the business in time; this was realised by Rhodes himself; need for strong executive head. - [c.1909]

245 - P.L.G. to Wilson Fox : need for great managerial effort so as to avoid the overlooking of any current questions. - 1908 Apr

245-267 - File on position of Wilson Fox and his personal commercial activities. - 1908-1909

246 - P.L.G. to Michell : need to deal with Fox's position; many other directors are in like mind; need that his post should be regulated by a formal agreement; need to ensure that he devotes all his time to Company affairs; the blame for irregularities lies with the board. - [1908 ?Aug]

247 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : enclosed 1tr. from Jameson to Fox, dated Sep 18, suggesting that he devotes his time exclusively to the Company and its subsidiaries and that his employment is regulated by an agreement in return for £6,000 a year; has heard that Fox is in basic agreement. - 1908 Sep 29

248 - Jameson to Fox : 1tr., a copy of which was enclosed by Birchenough above D3287 BSA/3/247. Fox to Maguire : in reply to proposal from Jameson; is not sure that he should accept inasmuch as he has no security of employment if the Company should go into liquidation; this is not impossible, vide failure to pay railway debenture interest; much rather retain outside interests to balance any dangers of loss of income. - 1908 Sep 16, Nov 11

249 - D. of Abercorn to Fox : enclosed opinion on recently revealed interest held by Fox in the Armstrong Commission and the Grant Finance Syndicate whilst still a member of the board of the Victoria Falls Power Company,; [as Fox was liable to gain large profits from these two concerns, he had a liability fully to disclose his interests to the Falls board]. Fox to D. of Abercorn : protests that his involvement with Armstrong and Grant was common knowledge, even to Hawksley; the minutes of the V.F.P.C. must be in error if they do not make this clear. - 1909 Mar 5, 6

250 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : outlines his own knowledge of Fox's involvement in the Armstrong commission; thinks the whole affair indefensible. - 1909 Mar 17

251 - P.L.G. to Maguire : outlines the present position with regard to Fox's unsecured debts of c.£37,000; possible compromise solution whereby the Company continues to employ him but takes over all his debts and forces repayment from him; unwilling personally to continue with Fox, finds him unreliable, with capacity for scheming, etc.; suggests that he might be made to resign on grounds of bad health but as he would still retain his directorships he would have sufficient income; this would avoid scandal and also remove him from British South Africa Company - 1909 Mar 25

252 - Maguire to P.L.G. : thinks that the board is agreed on retaining Fox. - 1909 Mar 30

253 - P.L.G. to Maguire : disagrees with idea of paying Fox £6,000 when his position is being reduced and when the only object of the high salary is to enable him to pay off his debts to the Company - 1909 Apr 1

254 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : sends on 1trs. left at office by P.L.G.; has heard of legal opinion at variance with that obtained by board in March re Fox's case. - 1909 Apr 7

255 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : enclosed opinion of W.H. Upjohn re Fox; does not think it convincing. - 1909 Apr 14

256 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : forwards draft 1tr. for despatch to Fox. - 1909 Apr 15

257-258 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : telegram and 1tr. re salary proposed for Fox and chances of successful negotiation on this basis. - 1909 Apr 20

259-261 - Drafts & copy correspondence between Hawksley, Blundell, Gordon & Company [Fox's solrs.], Fox, Gell & Winchester : settlement of problem, agreement between British South Africa Company and Fox. - 1909 Apr

262 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : arrangements re Fox's repayment of debts. - 1909 Jul 28

263 - P.L.G. to D. of Abercorn : dismayed at Auditors' failure to discover Fox's irregularities before this; they should be reprimanded.

264 - P.L.G. : fragment of draft 1tr.; finds Fox's position vis à vis the Company quite indefensible on commercial and moral terms.

265 - P.L.G. : draft proposals for financial settlement of Fox's problems.

266 - P.L.G. : draft memorandum, of the Fox case and its wider implications for the board.

267 - P.L.G. : note of Fox's liabilities.

268 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : arrival of Wallace, who supports Gell's views on rubber; rumours in press that Milton should resign; thinks Milton an admirable man for the post, must not be let leave, far preferable to Jameson's favourite, Hichens; South Africa politics and probability of 3 parties in parliament. 7 Feb 1910 - 1910

269 - Maguire : memorandum re representation of Company in Rhodesia during critical period before review of the Company's position in 1914; suggests that in view of failure to find suitable permanent commercial rep. a rota of resident directors should be created; P. Inskipp should continue as acting commercial rep. - 1911 May 8

270 - Visiting Director : memorandum, by Maguire & 1tr. from Ld. Winchester to Maguire re status and position of Visiting Director whilst in Rhodesia - 2-4 Oct 1911

271 - Maguire to P.L.G. : relationship of the Visiting Directors to the board at home; need to make plain that an individual director's opinion is not that of the whole board. - 1911 Oct 15

272 - Maguire to P.L.G. : agrees with his 1tr. about Fleming; also agrees with his 1tr. about Native Commissioners' Reports. [Robert Fleming (1845-1933), head of Robert Fleming & Company, Merchant Bankers]. - 1911 Dec 21

273 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : sorry that he is ill; prospects for General Meeting; Robert Fleming has declined coming onto the board; they may try Sir A. Henderson, but with doubts of success. [Sir Alexander Henderson, Chairman, R1wy. Cos. Assoc. and Great Central R1wy., member Tariff Commission, 1904.] - 1912 Jan 25

274 - British South Africa Company: report of committee. of the board appointed to enquire into the question of Commercial Branch revenue and expenditure ; analysis of last three years' figures, suggestions for greater exploitation of commercial wealth of Rhodesia, with numerous annotations by P.L.G. - [1912 Feb/Mar]

275 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : news of the Labour Tax Ordinance; glad that the Govt. had decided to revise it so as to avoid dispute, better solution than outside intervention as advocated by Jameson; dismayed by inefficiency of posts and telegraphs and public works department. - 1912 Apr 17

276 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : problems of railway extensions; need to capture through traffic rather than local commerce; possible competition from Delagoa Bay to Beira; danger that any extensions and improvements will be neutralised if Portugal obtains the section from the border to Beira after the lapse of the Anglo-Portuguese rail convention. - 1912 Aug 16

277 - Herbert S. Stoneham & Company, Stock Brokers, London, E.C., to P.L.G. : enclosed weekly report on the stock market, with special refs. to British South Africa Company and S. African shares; a note on shares of the Galician Oil Trust; and report on rubber companies. Aug 23 - 1912

278 - Michell, London; to P.L.G. : - 1912 Sep 18

279 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : glad to hear that he is recovering, as there is a need for him to act on the board as senior director now that the Vice-president [Maguire] has sailed; unwillingness of Jameson to act as senior director due to acute differences within the board; decision to delay the presidency question until Maguire returns; many in favour of offering it to Grey, but Maguire wants it himself, with Birchenough as V.-P.; general news re office affairs. - 1913 Jan 13

280 - Maguire, R.M.S. `Balmoral Castle', to P.L.G. :thanks for suggestions for speech that he will make to accompany the statement of policy he will issue in Salisbury; agrees that the next appointment on the Executive Committee should be of a commercially trained person who should not have to give his time to constitutional questions. - 1913 Jan 15

281 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : agrees with his opinion on railway rates; have had a heated time since he was away, Jameson is not very conciliatory. - 1913 Jan 21

282 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : proposed functions of the Executive Committee in relation to the Co's. administration, and commercial responsibilities; protracted differences over presidency, etc.; impending arrival of four new directors, possible changes of procedure; is sometimes surprised that P.L.G. wishes to be re-elected to the board; praises P.L.G.'s criticisms of Jameson's 1tr. on railway rates. - 1913 Jan 25

283 - P.L.G. : introduction to draft statement of policy by the Company should the Crown take over the administration functions in Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia - Jan 1913

284 - British South Africa Company: report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the working of the Share and Transfer Department (D. of Abercorn and E. Baring): analysis of functions and modus operandi of the Department; satisfied with its working. - 1913 Jul 22

285 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : comments at length on Wilson Fox's land settlement memorandum; is sure that there is no need for more expenditure on settlement; colonisation should now be allowed to take its economic course and any expenditure concentrated on increasing the yield of the land; astonished at the cost of the Land Settlement Department - 1913 Jul 22

286 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : comments on Fox's memorandum. - 1913 Jul 23

287 - Brodie to P.L.G. : will pass on his comments re the Share Department; outlines the system in force for gaining entry into the Company strongroom. - 1913 Aug 9

288 - Jameson to P.L.G. : enclosed draft statement by Winchester, dated Oct 16 and signed by P.L.G., re salary drawn by Fox; Fox seems to be agreeable to new arrangement. - [1913 Oct]

289 - P.L.G. and Ld. Winchester : memorandum re emoluments of directors on Executive Committee for their services on boards of subsidiary Cos.; with a table of emoluments of directors, stating amount earned from British South Africa Company and amount from directorships and trusteeships of subsidiaries. - 1913 Oct 17

290 - 3rd. D. of Abercorn, Newtownstewart, to P.L.G. : enclosed formal application for leave of absence from board; has pressing business with Ulster problem; must not leave too soon as this is first time he has been in Ireland since he succeeded his father [2nd D., d.1913, Pres. of British South Africa Company]. - 1913 Nov 5

291 - Wilson Fox, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : thanks for 1tr.; brief news of the state of the parties; astonished at Maguire's behaviour. - 1913 Nov 26

292 - British South Africa Company, copy minute : Maguire's resignation from vice-presidency should be delayed until his return from his tour of Rhodesia as should the election of a new president. [2 copies.] - 1913 Jan 7

292-337 - File on the election to the presidency. - 1913 Jan-Jul

293 - P.L.G. to Michell : states climate of opinion re election; is unsure that Grey would accept if offered as he is unwilling to be a figurehead and the money would be insufficient; only others canvassed are Jameson and Maguire; outlines Jameson's abilities and outside popularity; a danger of a rupture. [With further draft of one passage.] - 1913 Apr 26

294 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : Erlanger is coming to discuss with him a possible solution to the question; all directors are unwilling to choose either Maguire or Jameson at expense of the other, the choice is between types, not abilities; most seem in favour of Jameson, none support Jameson's idea of an outsider. - 1913 May 3

295 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : has discussed matter with Maguire and Jameson; outlines their views of each other; danger of losing either; suggests that election is deferred for three months to watch the development of the Executive Committee and that if agreement cannot be reached then, chat election should be put off until 1914 when the Company's position will be reviewed by the Government. - 1913 May 13

296 - P.L.G. to Hawksley : need for election as soon as possible; differences between the two men will dwindle in practise; certainly anything would be better than an outsider. [2 copies.] - 1913 May 15

297 - Hawksley, Malvern, to P.L.G. : has seen Jameson and will see Maguire about temporary delay of election; would like a copy of P.L.G. 's 1tr. to Michell re presidency. - 1913 May 18

298 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : unaware of the tension described by Gell; is disinterested in the affair but had assumed that Maguire would be chosen as Jameson's health is not very good. - 1913 May 20

299 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : enclosed correspondence which P.L.G. should send on to Col. Baring; Maguire has said that he will support an outsider other than Grey; can Gell think of a suitable person? - 1913 May 24

300 - E. Baring to P.L.G. : thanks for correspondence, has heard of the difficulties, but has not heard anything of importance since Maguire's return from Africa. - [1913] May 25

301 - [Ld. Winchester] to P.L.G. : suggests a private meeting of directors to decide the presidency; outlines agenda; has heard that Beit's conversation with Julia [?Maguire] has born fruit and that Maguire will accept an outsider. [First two pages only.] - [1913] May 27

302 - D. of Abercorn, Fittleworth, to P.L.G. : agrees to proposed meeting of directors. - [1913] May 28

303 - P.L.G. to O. Beit : sorry that he will have to stay at home on account of sickness; outlines probable points of discussion at meeting. - [1913] May 29

304 - O. Beit, Welwyn, to P.L.G. : detailed answer to Gell's 1tr.; against election of outsider strong or weak; if choice is between Jameson and Maguire then each should promise to stay on for one year if the other is elected; thinks Maguire's business abilities have been underrated; the only other possibilities are Erlanger, who is so new as to be considered an outsider, and Winchester, whom he [B.] prefers, but whom Maguire looks at in the same light as he does Jameson. - [1913] Jun 1

305 - P.L.G. : note of points for discussion at meeting. - [1913 Jun 1]

306 - Michell, Cape Town, to Hawksley : [copy 1tr. produced at meeting of Jun 2]; is in favour of Maguire as president. - 1913 Apr 21

307 - Dougall Orme Malcolm to P.L.G. : enclosed only copy of his minutes of meeting re presidency; is sure that Maguire should be persuaded not to resign unless the board under Jameson did something of which he disapproves. - 1913 Jun 2

308 - P.L.G. to Maguire : outlines decision of directors to ask Jameson to accept nomination, hopes that he will not be moved to resign. [3 copies.] - 1913 Jun 3

309 - O. Beit, Welwyn, to P.L.G. : thinks his 1tr. of the 3rd a good one, hopes for its success though he doubts it due to the influence of Mrs. Maguire, Jameson "justly incensed" by steps taken by "Mrs. Milner". - 1913 Jun 7

310 - Maguire, Taplow, to P.L.G. : will reply to his 1tr. of 3rd. as soon as he can. - 1913 Jun 8

311 - Maguire, Taplow, to P.L.G. : regrets that an outsider was not chosen; is bound to oppose Jameson's nomination, disagrees with J.`s policy of accelerated growth in the hope of reaping the reward in the future; thinks that there should be financial consolidation of the Company and the railways before any steps are taken; if he was to stay on the board after J.`s election, he would have to have assurances on the direction of future financial and railway policy. - 1913 Jun 9

312 - Minutes of meeting of directors [taken by Malcolm] called to consider Maguire's answer to Gell's 1tr. of 3rd. - [1913] Jun 11

313 - P.L.G. to Jameson : sends copies of his 1tr. to Maguire of 3rd and Maguire's reply; directors have agreed that assurances asked for can be given, if Jameson agrees; hopes that they can now proceed to nominate him for election; surprised by Maguire's moderate attitude. - [1913] Jun 11

314 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : does not want copy of Gell's 1tr. to Maguire if he does not want to give it to him. - [1913] Jun 11

315 - Hawksley to Jameson : hears that the directors are discussing the presidency in private; he has "shot his bolt" and is glad to be out of it as there is some "hitting below the belt"; does not mind who is elected as long as J. or Milner does not leave; J. should be content with having effectively excluded Milner and should now refuse nomination, as was his original intention; would not be in best interests of the Company that he should be president; an outsider should and could be found. - [1913] Jun 11

316 - Minutes of meeting of directors [taken by Malcolm] called to consider further negotiations with Jameson, in particular his reaction to Maguire's demand for assurances, and his request to consider the points made by Hawksley in his 1tr. of Jun 11. - [1913] Jun 12

317-318 - P.L.G. to Maguire : reply to his 1tr. of the 9th giving directors' views on the assurances requested by Milner [Draft and 4 copies.] - [1913] Jun 13

319 - Jameson to P.L.G. : thanks for all the trouble he has taken over the election, will leave himself in the hands of the directors. - [1913 Jun] 13

320 - P.L.G. to Winchester : Jameson had asked him, after Hawksley's attack on him [see above, Jun 11] to suggest to the directors that he [Winchester] should be nominated. - 1913 Jun 15

321 - O. Beit, to P.L.G. : enclosed [not found] 1tr. from Jameson. - 1913 Jun 16

322 - Maguire to P.L.G. : arrangements for election of president, date of meeting: will resign as vice-president as from date of meeting to elect president. - 1913 Jun 16

323 - Malcolm to P.L.G. : enclosed [not found] copies of P.L.G.'s 1tr. to Maguire; hopes that Milner will not force election to a division. - 1913 Jun 16

324 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : have agreed to circulate Gell's memorandum re railway debenture interest; measures to be taken if they have to default on payment of October interest; hopes that Wankies, under new management, will soon begin to flourish again. - 1908 Aug 20

324 - P.L.G. to Maguire : acknowledgement of his 1tr., discussion had best wait for a formal board meeting. - 1913 Jun 18

325 - P.L.G. to Wilson Fox : regrets Maguire's decision to resign as V.-P. but hopes that he can be re-elected soon; arrangements for circulation of papers. - 1913 Jun 18

326 - Ld. Winchester to P.L.G. : enclosed copy formal notification of his intention to propose Jameson; congratulates P.L.G. on way he has handled affair. - 1913 Jun 18

327 - Malcolm to P.L.G. : enclosed Itr. from Winchester re Cell's Itr. to Maguire, is fearful that even this will not mollify him; arrangements for distribution of documents to direction re the presidency negotiations. - 1913 Jun 19

328 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : does not think it wise to cable Michell re the presidency, he has left the decision in their hands and the full facts could not be set out in cable hopes Maguire will not continue to be ungracious, it can only recoil on himself in the end. - 1913 Jun 19

329 - Hawksley to P.L.G. : cannot understand why the board wishes to elect Jameson after his repeated statements that he does not want the job nor why Jameson allows his name to be put forward; the only answer is to elect an outsider. - 1913 Jun 20

330 - Jameson to P.L.G. : thanks for Itr., agrees with him. - 1913 Jun 21

331-332 - British South Africa Company: draft & copy of address given by Ld. Winchester in moving election of Jameson to presidency at board meeting. [Draft written by P.L.G. and Winchester.] - 1913 Jun 23

333 - P.L.G. : memorandum of the personal responsibility of Jameson for the Jameson Raid; note of Ld. Grey's account of the plan to station a force of police on the border in case of disorder in Johannesburg, note of Frank Johnson's account of the numbers and composition of that force and note that Jameson's personal responsibility was only for the ultimate decision to enter the Rand when he learnt that Boers were preparing to block his road. - 1913 Jun 22

334 - Ld. Winchester to P.L.G. : would have liked a copy of Maguire's statement to the board of his grounds of opposition to Jameson; as he recalls, it was based on Jameson's role in the Raid which ill fitted him to negotiate with the Colonial Office in future years; Jameson has told him (W.) that in fact both Maguire and Hawksley were just as privy to the Raid as was himself and that he remembers its discussion at a meeting of Rhodes, Jameson, Maguire & Hawksley; is astonished, if this is true, at the opposition put up by both Maguire and Hawksley, "at the same time one knows the limit to which either --- are to be trusted". - [1913] Jun 24

335 - Brodie to P.L.G. : impressed by the role that P.L.G. has played. - [1913] Jun 29

336 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : enclosed part of 1tr. on Jun 30 which he wrote before he received Gell's last; is sure that the Company must continue without great rift. - [1913] Jul 1

337 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : too late now to throw the Raid in Jameson's teeth; Hawksley has written on two occasions re the affair, but he has not replied. - [1913] Jul 16

338 - Wilson Fox, Salisbury, to P.L.G. : doubts if there is enough land in London for the Company to sell with profit; is convinced that if the Company can retain the administration for another ten years its position will be impregnable. - 1914 Jan 6

339 - Winchester to P.L.G. : discussions with Erlanger, Baring & Malcolm re Land Settlement Ordinance; dangerous effect of labour disputes in South Africa on the Victoria Falls Power Company - [1914] Jan 7

340 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : Christmas wishes; comments on the poor commercial results of the Tobacco Company of Rhodesian & South Africa; [W.G.] Mason of Lobatsi has turned up without a job due to cessation of cattle purchasing, hard treatment of him by the Chartered Company, has taken him into the Rhodes Trust. - 1914 Dec 11

341 - Ld. Gladstone, 2 London Wall Bldgs., E.C., to P.L.G. : asks him to join Gen. Committee of the South African Ambulance, now accepted by the French and allocated a hotel at Cannes. - 1915 Feb 8

342 - Ld. Gladstone, 2 London Wall Bldgs., E.C., to P.L.G. : thanks for letter and cheque; "for many years I have been delightfully free from politics". - 1915 Feb 10

343 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : sure that the Commercial officials are overpaid, they should be paid by results; account of the disaffection of Boer members of the South Africa Defence Force. - 1915 Mar 2

344 - British South Africa Company: comparative statement of London Office expenditure, yrs. ending Mar 31 1911-1916 - 1916 Mar

345-348 - British South Africa Company: report of 20th ordinary general meeting of the Company, endorsed by P.L.G. with note that it contained queries of propriety of continuing to have Beit and Erlanger on the board during the war and filed with 3 cuttings from Daily Mail of ltrs. to the Ed. re Erlanger. - 1916 Apr 6

349 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : comments on reactions of shareholders when he was last in London; glad that economies are at last taking force; fears the consequences of arming the Matabele for the pursuance of the war. - 1916 May 19

350 - [P.L.G.] : memorandum disagreeing with Wilson Fox's claim that he is entitled to fees paid him for sitting on the Wankie Board on grounds that it was agreed that members of the Executive Committee should hand over their fees from subsidiary cos. in return for higher salaries from the British South Africa Company - 1916 Nov 17

351 - Letter: Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : comments on affairs of Gwelo Creamery; agrees that if Privy Council decision goes against the Company they should give up the administration; poor state of affairs at the cement factory in Rhodesia; comments on Tanganyika Concessions' balance sheets. - 28 Nov 1916

352 - Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Bart., Rounton Grange, Northallerton, to P.L.G. : thanks for news of subscription from British South Africa Company and for list of names. - 1917 Nov 4

353 - E.J. Harding, Colonial Office, to P.L.G. : thanks for pamphlet. [Edward John Harding, secretary to Dominions Royal Commission, 1912-17.] - 1917 Nov 6

354 - Order for memorial service to L.S. Jameson at St. Margaret's Westminster. - 1917 Dec 5

355 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : has put the Advisory Council for Northern Rhodesia on agenda; will write to Wallace advising him to go slow; delay in Privy Council hearing. 28 Dec 1917 - 1917

356-360 - P.L.G. : notes and memorandum on future policy of the Company with ltrs. & papers from Fox, Jameson, Chaplin, Malcolm and Erlanger, 1917-18. - 1918 Jan

361 - Wilson Fox : memorandum and review of the Company's political and commercial policy with tables of capital and interest payments, and of revenue and exp. of railways. [2 copies] - 1918 Feb 25

362 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : has read the report of the commission of enquiry into Southern Rhodesia railways, it is favourable to the cos.; concern at aggressiveness of the Dutch settlers in Southern Rhodesia; is worried by the grabbing of the jobs of men at the front by aliens. - 1918 May 1

363-365 - Press-cuttings of comments on general meeting of British South Africa Company - 1918 Jul

366 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : - 1918 Aug 6

367 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : Malcolm decided not to go to Southern Rhodesia even though the board had decided to send him; personal opinion is that he is not going now that Birchenough has secured him exemption from military service. - 1918 Aug 11

368 - Wilson Fox, Ventnor, to P.L.G. : does not think it worth while to worry about Malcolm's actions over the judgement and Order-in-Council - 1918 Aug 19

369 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : came up from Cape Town in saloon used to bring down the Chaplins; eccentricity of Lady Chaplin; visit of General and Mrs. Thompson to Rhodesian; libellous nature of the Bulawayo Chronicle's editorials. [?Maj.-Gen. Chas. Wm. Thompson, S. African military comd., 1914-16, and Sierra Leone from 1917.] - 1918 Sep 25

370-371 - Jas. R. Briggs, Harpenden, to British South Africa Company: offering to buy some of the debentures that are sent in for payment; with reply from Chiefly Acctant. - 1918 Sep 18, 27

372 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : Elected Members out of favour with electorate, but whole country united in wish to terminate Company's rule; enclosed copy cable to this effect. - 1918 Oct 3

373 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : prospects of imminent election campaign. - 1918 Oct 7

374 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : prospects of public meeting to be given by Elected Members; surprised that the Company allowed the Advisory Company of Northern Rhodesia such powers; hostility of South Africa press. - 1918 Oct 10

375 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : is convinced of wisdom of getting Southern Rhodesia into the Union. - 1918 Oct 13

376 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G. : influenza epidemic in Southern Rhodesia; enclosed press report of public meeting of Elected Members, comments on this. - 1918 Oct 18

377 - British South Africa Company: note of attendances at board meetings by directors, attendances by Executive members & of nos. of docs. signed by Executive members. - 1918 Oct 30

378 - O. Beit to P.L.G. : Fox & Malcolm would insist on discussing the `Air Scheme', he resisted it strongly. - 1918 Oct 31

379 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : is sure that his and Fox's commitments to public bodies do not interfere with the smooth running of the Company office. - 1918 Nov 1

380 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : degree of Unionist support for Botha lessened by his native proposals; Bolshevism on the Rand; Privy Council decision; Olive & Inskipp not good enough to manage their commercial interests if these are to expand. - 1918 Nov 26

381 - Wilson Fox, Birmingham, to P.L.G. : will be elected to Parlt. unopposed; fierceness of people's views on the German question. - 1918 Nov 28

382 - A.P. Millar to P.L.G. : reports on board meeting, enclosed comparative general expenditure and revenue a/cs., 1917 & 1918. - 1918 Nov 28

383 - H.H. Hitchcock to P.L.G. : enclosed further ltrs. from Michell; - 1918 Nov 29

384 - Malcolm to P.L.G. : urges that some action should be taken re the vacancy of office of president, need for a speedy election; is in favour of choosing Selborne. - 1917 Dec 13

384-408 - File on the election of a president, after the death of Jameson, 1917-8. - 1917-1918

385 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : he and Birchenough think that they should resist any attempt to rush the matter, time is needed to allow for unanimity to slowly appear; they regard "our very junior colleague's" espousal of Selbourne's cause as "indecent and outrageous"; Birchenough has agreed to speak to Maguire before he leaves for Rhodesia; Abercorn has come out against Selborne. - 1917 Dec 15

386 - Maguire to P.L.G. : thanks for letter re presidency; any suggestions are premature. - 1917 Dec 18

387 - Birchenough, Roy. Commission on Paper, to P.L.G. : has spoken to Maguire, gives account of his views, he is against an outsider; need for some decision to be made, either to postpone or to elect. - 1917 Dec 26

388 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : need to decide on a president, is going to take a more active part in this than he had hitherto planned; although in favour of Selborne, sees that it would not be successful, nor would another outsider; Maguire is the most senior and would take the chair if the board was unanimous; is now sounding other directors' feelings; if Maguire not acceptable, then Birchenough is the best man. [With transcript copy.] - 1918 Jan 3

389 - Winchester to P.L.G. : Selborne should not be considered as he may at some stage resume his place in the Govt. Beit supports the choice of Milner, but he [W.] thinks that he would be difficult to get and would not be the best man for discussions with South Africa nor is he popular with the Labour Party in the H. of C.; is against Maguire because of his actions in 1913 and since, and because of his unwillingness to make any change in policy; gathers that P.L.G. is unwilling to accept and that his health would not stand it; is thus in favour of Birchenough, finds that Erlanger, Fox & Maguire either support or would accept him though Malcolm would have Maguire in preference, Abercorn, Michell and Beit would probable support B.; Malcolm has asked if he (W.) would support the election of Selborne as ordinary director, he wants him to support him against Birchenough. - [1918] Jan 3

390 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : agrees with the criticism that a full-time member of the Executive should give all of his time, but any examples of this happening are due to exigencies of the war; feels sure that any president must also be a member of the Executive - [1918] Jan 8

391 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : clear that there is now substantial support for Birchenough; however, is not prepared to extract these votes, thus thinks that a sort of Papal election should be held until one person obtains a 3/4ths majority. - 1918 Jan 9

392 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : outlines his views as to the need for speed in obtaining a president. - 1918 Jan 11

393 - Wilson Fox, Aldeburgh, to P.L.G. : discusses Erlanger's proposal for an election with alternative votes; is now in favour of Birchenough; Jameson's opinion of B. was quite high though Malcolm intentionally depreciated him; Milner is now trying to get Selborne onto the board and Baring onto the Executive; Maguire refuses to go out to Rhodesia without his wife. - 1918 Jan 12

394 - P.L.G. : draft notes of address to directors re discussions and memorandums from directors as to future policy of the Company which were offered as result of his call for discussions so that policy could be laid down before a president was chosen; his views as to general qualities the president should have. - 1918 Jan

395 - Erlanger, Paris, to P.L.G. : thinks that the arrangement of P.L.G. acting as provisional chairman is the best one. - 1918 Mar 1

396 - Winchester to P.L.G. : is still in favour of Birchenough although he sympathises with nervousness that B. may only give small part of his time to the Company; proposes arrangement which would ensure that he was more assiduous. - [1918] Mar 4

397 - Winchester : notes of questions put to Birchenough in letter re his willingness and ability to assume full responsibilities as president.

398 - Birchenough to Winchester : gives account of his outside responsibilities; would give all these up if elected. - 1918 Mar 6

399 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : re meeting of board to settle presidency; most are now agreed to let the matter stand over to the end of the war and to elect P.L.G. as chairman pro tem., he [E.] is in favour of his being temporary president, but the others prefer that he should be chairman. - 1918 Mar 26

400 - Winchester, Woodhall Spa, to P.L.G. : objects to idea of calling board meeting for before Beit's departure, it could stand over till he returned; thinks his proposal better than Erlanger's. - [1918] Mar 31

401 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : everyone seems to agree with his proposal re P.L.G. as chairman. - [1918] Apr 4

402 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : enclosed resolution passed at board electing him to chairmanship of board until a president is elected. - [1918] Apr 11

403 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : agrees it would be a mistake to go outside for a president; thinks the present arrangement a good one; finds it an advantage that P.L.G. has not been to Rhodesia, many troubles due to personal visits by directors. - 1918 Apr 24

404 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : wants him to know of his esteem for his conduct of affairs; is sure that they would have chosen him as president has it not been for his state of health and for the fact that his not having been to Rhodesia might excite adverse criticism. - 1918 Jun 3

405 - P.L.G. : draft letter suggesting that his informal position as chairman in interim should be regularised and that he should be nominated Vice-President; proposals as to his outside responsibilities & the need for the Company to compensate him for any directorships that he may have to resign in consequence of his new position. - [1918 ?Feb]

406 - P.L.G. to Erlanger : draft letter re his acceptance of post of chairman; arrangement does not preclude Birchenough's election as president after the war. - [1918 ?Feb]

407-408 - P.L.G. : drafts of parts of 2 ltrs. re presidency.

409 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : Malcolm's meeting with Fiddes; thinks a commission to enquire into the debt of the Govt. to the Company would be very good; it must be established on proper lines; a decision would help in negotiations with South Africa; agrees that Churchill at the C.O. would be calamitous, thinks it likely however; is concerned about Milner, Lloyd George is jealous of his standing with the French. [Sir George Vandalear Fiddes, Perm. Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1916-21; imperial secretary & acctnt. to Ld. Milner, 1897-1901.] - 1919 Jan 8

410 - Erlanger to P.L.G. : recent formation of the Inter-Allied Corp., an organisation with the object of forming cartels for the distribution of industrial goods to countries which have suffered during the war; Wintour obtained as managing director, Milner wanted as Chairman, but unable to accept due to his cabinet post; Chairmanship now offered to Birchenough; effect on his role in the British South Africa Company if he accepts it; suggests that he fore- goes his salary, but remains an hon. member of the Executive Committee; suggests that Malcolm should have an increase in salary on account of greater workload. [Ulick Fitzgerald Wintour, director of contracts, War Off., 1914-17, Secretary to Min. of Food 1917-18, controller of H.M.S.O., 1918-19.] - 1919 Jan 10

411 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : Erlanger has obtained for him the offer of the Chairmanship of Inter-Allied Trading & Banking Corp., would like to acdept and remain as an unpaid member of the Executive Committee - 1919 Jan 10

412 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : chances of a favourable settlement now that there is a new govt.; effect of Erlanger's disclosures of talks with Smuts; is sure that Birchenough's new post will not cause any problems. - 1919 Jan 10

413 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : sorry to hear of conflict [over election of P. Inskipp to the board and Executive Committee?]; feels that he is a better manager than director and the Executive Committee could be abolished. - 1919 Mar 28

414 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : election of Inskipp to board and Executive Committee; appointed Millar as Secretary instead of Acting Secretary, he is very good though not a true replacement for Brodie. - 1919 Apr 10

415 - Michell, London, to P.L.G. : discusses Cave Commn.; Aborigines Prot. Soc. a consciously dishonest body; Milner's reply re Mineral Rights shows lack of certainty of the Govt. re Rhodesia's future; being overcharged in Queen Anne's Mansions, thus returning to South Africa - 1919 Aug 27

416 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : general news on his arrival back at the office; possibilities of the Cave Commission. - 1919 Sep 8

417 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : Govt.'s attitude to the Company, is sure that they will be robbed; Smuts will be probably weaker in new session; recent demonstration by Hertzog; dangers of too great competition between the National and Standard Banks. - 1919 Dec 8

418 - [? -- ] : memorandum re general feelings of shareholders re the Company and effect on them of Govt. actions; need to capitalise on possible resentment over delay of Cave Commission, etc., by concerted newspaper and public relations campaign. - [1919]

419 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : Cave Commission; New Year honours for Beit, Birchenough and Middleton. - 1920 Jan 6

420 - O. Beit to P.L.G. : thanks for congratulations on New Year's Honour. - 1920 Jan 10

421 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : glad his health is improving; account of Cave Commission hearings. - 1920 Jan 22

422 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : if they give up the administration their archives should be in good order, suggests that they employ an archivist; continued concern at bank competition which is leading to financing of unsound and dishonest ventures. - 1920 Jan 29

423 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : account of the demands of the Southern Rhodesia railway unions; danger that the whites will price themselves out of the labour market, already happening in mining and building; must consider applying to South Africa Rlwys. for personnel to break the strike. - 1920 Feb 19

424 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : - 1920 Apr 28

425 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. - 1920 May 4

426 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : - 1920 May 10

427 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : condemnation of the Company's Sinoia oranges by the Cape inspector; need for a commercial manager; Chaplin's proposal to increase income tax a disservice to intending settlers; dangers of a slump. - 1920 May 13

428 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : effect of South Africa elections on Rhodesian politics; unscrupulousness of new members of the Leg. Company; disagrees with suggestion that Chaplin, as administrator, should be allowed a hand in railway administration; closing down of some lowgrade mines on the Rand. - 1920 May 18

429 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : injustices meted out to the Company; official censorship of the Lovedale rebellion and of reports of the trials; cost of the German territories to the U.K.; unhappy at commercial prospects. - 1920 Jun 23

430 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : rejection of Rhodesian citrus products by Cape officials; new Land Bank loan from the Govt. in South Africa; J.G. McDonald thinks that Resp. Govt. would not win if voted on now; Coghlan's character; arrest of local communist agitators. [(Sir) James Gordon McDonald (1867-1942), pioneer and gold miner in Southern Rhodesia from 1890, a Beit Railway Trustee, and in favour of union with South Africa.] - 1920 Jul 6

431 - O. Beit to P.L.G. : is to meet Milner to discuss relations of Govt. and Company - 1920 Jun 27

432 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : high cost of living; labour problems; Smuts' political situation; new measures on the lines of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank; reason for South Africa inflation is the over-issue of bank notes. - 1920 Jul 29

433 - Michell, Rondebosch; to P.L.G. : visit to Bulawayo; condition of citrus fruit; delay of the Govt. in settling with the Company; Smuts' loss of a division, opinion that he must work at getting Rhodesia into the Union so as to strengthen his side. - 1920 Aug 19

434 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : recommends Keigwin's book on native industrial development; unsure of the wisdom of the Advisory Company in Northern Rhodesia; delay of the Govt. in settling with the Company - 1920 Aug 20

435 - Jas. J. Shaw, Kirkcaldy, to P.L.G. : offering his services [dupl. letter]; account of past experience in drapery, etc., trade. - 1920 Sep 4

436 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : Nationalists gaining ground in country districts; elimination of Englishmen from high government posts by Smuts; recent railure to force a strike in Bulawayo shows the power of the moderates in trade unions when united; danger of blood being spilt with labour as it is. - 1920 Sep 17

437 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : proposes to nominate P.L.G. for Presidency at next board meeting so that he will be able to address share-holders as president in name as well as fact; has unanimous support of the board. - 1920 Oct 17

438 - Winchester, Paris, to P.L.G. : unlikely that the Govt. will wish to take over the administration of Rhodesia; need therefore to shift the onus onto someone else, the Union would be the best; possible establishment of a committee to work out terms for going into the Union; co-ordination of propaganda with Chaplin. - 1920 Oct 18

439 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G. : congratulations on presidency. - 1920 Oct 22

440 - Milner, Colonial Office, to P.L.G. : congratulations. - 1920 Oct 22

441 - P. Inskipp, Sevenoaks, to P.L.G. : congratulations. - 1920 Oct 24

442 - Winchester, Paris, to P.L.G. : congratulations on the presidency; comments on Milner's meeting with Drummond Chaplin. - [1920] Oct 24

443 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : congratulations on presidency; Nationalists are already recruiting support in Melsetter, etc., in case Rhodesia goes into the Union; precarious position of Smuts; dangerous attitude of the natives, encouraged by Soviet agitators; lack of British armed presence in South Africa is unwise; large number of undesirables and foreigners let into South Africa - 1920 Oct 27

444 - Sir Leicester P. Beaufort, Wynberg, to P.L.G. : congratulations; comments on the texture of his life, now retired, in Livingstone. [Sir Leicester P. Beaufort (1853-1925), Chief Justice, Northern Rhodesia, 1901-18, barrister Inner Temple, 1879, Governor of Labuan, 1895-9.] - 1920 Oct 30

445 - C.H. Tredgold, Salisbury, to P.L.G. : congratulations; has finished recent circuit, poor quality of accommodation and railway travel. - 1920 Oct 31

446 - Rhodesian Trading Company, Salisbury : congratulations. - 1920 Nov 1

447-450 - Press-cuttings re election to presidency. - 1920 Oct

451 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : appalled at Govt. actions over debt to Company; large numbers of undesirable aliens in Rhodesia; prospects for South Africa elections. - 1920 Dec 31

452 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : defends his desire to go onto another board so as to insure himself against any dangers of being jobless should the British South Africa Company not continue; assures him that sufficient time is devoted to British South Africa Company affairs. [Last page only.] - [?1920]

453-455 - P.L.G. : drafts of speech to shareholders at general meeting. - [1920]

456 - Michell, Cape Town to P.L.G. : discussion of the Govt.'s attitude re debts. - 1921 Jan 25

457 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : account of attempt to raise loan from bank for Mark Harris Company; Smuts' victory at polls; suggested lines of action against the Govt. over the Cave Award. - 1921 Feb 16

458 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : foolishness of the Company in not insisting on a rep. on the Cave Commission; future action against the Govt.; appointment of Chaplin as Administrator in Northern Rhodesia; Mark Harris Company; South Africa politics, adoption of Reitz as member for Pt. Elizabeth. - 1921 Mar 2

459 - Francis Newbolt, Athenaeum, to P.L.G. : husband of his third daughter, a railway man, wants a post with British South Africa Company [Francis George Newbolt, barrister and author, at Balliol College, Oxon.] - 1921 Mar 8

460 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : new South Africa cabinet; possible visit of Smuts or Smartt to Rhodesia, as suggested by P.L.G.; Cave award sounds larger than he expected; is going to Bulawayo to discuss enlargement of the Land Bank; glad at pension granted to Col. Murray's widow. - 1921 Mar 10

461 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : Newton feels that Churchill's Committee to enquire into future govt. of Rhodesian is a ploy to give official help to Coghlan's becoming the first Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia; shortness of money in South Africa; economic position in South Africa; rise in cost of passages to England. - 1921 Mar 17

462 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : has to go away for his health. - 1921 Mar 19

463 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : Raleigh Grey's opinion of Coghlan; difficulties of South Africa Rlwys. owing to rise in cost of labour; dangers of native unrest; arrival of many aliens from Eastern Europe, undoubtedly Bolshevist infiltrators; accusations of irregularity in Govt. loan to Land Bank. - 1921 Mar 22

464 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : his views of the Cave award; will not press for his suggestion of a meeting with shareholders in order to concert action against the Govt. if other directors think it unwise. - 1921 Mar 24

465 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : defends the Southern Rhodesia Land Bank's profitability; thinks that it should not refuse applications for loans if only slightly above upper limit and obviously bona fide. - 1921 Mar 29

466 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : his opinion on the wisdom of entering arbitration with the Govt. without nominating one of the arbitrators; success of the Southern Rhodesia Land Bank; comments on Chaplin's draft ordinance for deporting of convicted criminals; aliens in South Africa & Rhodesia. - 1921 Apr 26

467 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : enclosed [not found] manifesto of Rhodesian Union Assoc.; comments on results of ranches in Rhodesian & high loss of livestock from carnivora; return of Sir Francis Newton to Rhodesia. - [25 May] 1921

468 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : commercial prospects; success of tobacco enterprise; native riots in South Africa; impending labour trouble; Smuts' departure for England in middle of a session. - 1921 Jun 1

469 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : the Company should not involve itself in the forthcoming Rhodesian delegation to London but wait until asked to give its views. [First page only.] - 1921 Jul 9

470 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : must raise the Wise question at the Board; Malcolm convinced that they are antagonistic to Wise. - 1921 Jul 4

471 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : prospects and comments on plebiscite on Union; glad that other directors are realising the lack of success of the commercial sector of the Company - 1921 Jul 14

472 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : sorry to note that Maguire refused to take the chair at board meeting when P.L.G. was absent; need for directors to close their ranks. - 1921 Jul 21

473 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : legal position of those who are now claiming farms in payment for their part in the pioneer column of 1896; Govt. must wish to be quit of the Company; native unrest financed by Russia via America; presence of educated negro agitators teaching Wilson's doctrine of self-determination; enclosed letter from Admiral W.E. Goodenough in praise of Rhodesia. - 1921 Jul 27

474 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : comments on Advisory Company in Northern Rhodesia and Leg. Company in Southern Rhodesia - 1921 Aug 5

475 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : Inskipp should resign his directorship if he takes up official position as Commercial Manager; blunder of the C.O. in adopting and publishing the Buxton Report re Northern Rhodesia, it will render negotiations with Smuts more difficult. - 1921 Aug 18

476 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : agreed to defer decision of extending Land Bank to ordinary banking operations; lack of supervision of commercial ventures; result of case re claim for farms by pioneers - 1921 Aug 24

477 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G. : general news from London Office including suit against the Company for land ostensibly promised by Rhodes to volunteers in the 1896 rebellion campaign; Northern Rhodesia reference to the Privy Company; Company's liability to pay municipal rates in Southern Rhodesia, etc.; enclosed copy letter to Malcolm summarising aspects of the claim for land made by Hale Helps. - 1921 Aug 26

478 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : account of meeting with Churchill and the Rhodesian delegation, discussion of draft Letters Patent, proposals for protecting the Company's rights over railways and land. - [Aug 1921]

479 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : impending arrival of Rhodesian delegation to discuss Union with Smuts; Smuts' probable policy; has heard that Churchill is not specially in favour of Coghlan. - 1921 Sep 2

480 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : thanks for information; thinks that "our friend" [unstated, possibly Maguire] has made it impossible to attain the post that he covets. - 1921 Sep 6

481 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : account of Smuts' talks with delegates from Rhodesian; is sure that this is best time to do a deal with South Africa - 1921 Sep 7

482 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : enclosed general news letter to Birchenough esp. re Smuts' meeting with Coghlan and removal of railway cos. to Rhodesia, enclosed memorandum on this subject; visit of Rhodesian delegates. - 1921 Sep 9

483 - Wilson Fox to P.L.G. : had a good holiday in Norway; is impressed by work of Marshall Hole, hopes the Company might make him a loan of £200 for payment of income tax; news of other directors. - 1921 Sep 9

484 - F.B. Philip, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : writing on behalf of Michell who is ill; will have to be operated on, which will be very dangerous but there is still hope. - 1921 Oct 18

485 - P.L.G. to O. Beit; enclosed ltrs. from P. Inskipp, Salisbury, to Birchenough and P.L.G. re management of the Mazoe farms by Wise; Malcolm's excessive confidence in the present officers of the Land Settlement Department, and his possible appointment as Commercial Manager in Rhodesia. - 1921 Oct 21

486 - O. Beit to P.L.G. : thanks for ltrs., enlarges on his impressions of Wise during his last visit to Rhodesia. - 1921 Oct 25

487 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : just left nursing home; had thought of resigning all directorships, but hopes he will not have to; no longer needs entertainment allowance. - 1921 Nov 9

488 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : has talked over with Malcolm what should be done now that Fox is so ill; will go to South Africa for talks with Smuts if wanted but thinks he should stay in London to handle any problems with the C.O.; is not happy at prospect of Malcolm going with only Beit to control him; chance that Maguire may go for railway purposes and would be there as an unofficial member of the delegation. - 1921 Nov 20

489 - British South Africa Company, report to shareholders : draft paragraphs re political situation and the balance sheet. - 1921 Nov

490 - Malcolm, Elsfield Manor Oxford, to P.L.G. : staying with John Buchan; account of last board meeting; agreed that Birchenough should stay in London during directors' visit to South Africa; have agreed to put Hadley on Willoughby's board if Winchester does not object; sees force in P.L.G.'s observations as to need of the board for an energetic M.P. member, suggests that Ormsby-Gore would be a good candidate, can show correspondence which illustrates his support for the Company [William George Arthur Ormsby Gore (1885-1964) later 4th Baron Harlech; colonial secretary, 1936-38.] - 1921 Dec 3

491 - British South Africa Company: memorandum for directors enclosed balance sheet for 1917/18 and draft balance for 1919/20. - 1921 Dec 2

492 - Birchenough to P.I.G. : sorry he is ill; agrees with proposal to keep Michell on the board but to cut his entertainment allowance. - 1921 Dec 5

493 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : policy to be adopted re cost of railways to South Africa if union is decided upon; Coghlan party's reaction to suggestion that Rhodesian should assume some of the debt if given Resp. Govt.; Sir Abe Bailey's demand for seizure of Delagoa Bay for the Union. - 1921 Dec 7

494 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : discussion of railway matters with the C.O.; helpfulness of Maguire; need to move railway management to Rhodesia. - 1921 Dec 16

495 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G. : general news from London Office including progress of talks at the C.O. with Rhodesian delegates re railways; prospects of a referendum on Resp. Govt., etc. - 1921 Dec 20

496 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G. : general London Office news, including railway and mineral rights guarantees in draft Letters Patent; possibilities of Union; reduction of wages by mine-owners in Southern Rhodesia; etc. - 1921 Dec 28

497 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G. : criticises draft Letters Patent; intention of Coghlan is to rob the Company; poor state of Union finances and of Union banks. - 1921 Dec 29

498 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : publication of the draft Letters Patent; move of railway management to Rhodesia; conditions of service for Inskipp as general manager; possibility of inclusion of Maguire in official delegation of directors to Smuts; their bargaining position with South Africa made weaker by draft Letters Patent. - 1921 Dec 30

499 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G. : general news from London Office including interview re Union given by Sir F. Newton; problems caused to N. Charterland Exploration Company due to lack of Native Reserves policy in Northern Rhodesia; liability of incoming Govt. to pay Company for buildings and plant, etc. - 1922 Jan 5

500 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : discussions at the board re move of railway management to Rhodesia; inclusion of Maguire in delegation to Smuts. - 1922 Jan 6

501 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: London Office news including strong feeling in Southern Rhodesia in favour of leaving the Company in power; economic position of the Union inclines people towards Resp. Govt.; future ownership of Govt. Hse., Bulawayo; etc. - 1922 Jan 12

502 - Birchenough, Bournemouth, to P.L.G.: illness of his wife; preparation of Petition of Right; suggestion that the Company might amalgamate with Rhodesian Goldfields. - 1922 Jan 17

503 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: London Office news including Northern Rhodesia reference to the Privy Company; difficulties encountered in finding assistant schoolmasters of right calibre, enclosed copies of adverts. in case he knows of any men; need to settle Native Reserves question, etc. - 1922 Jan 27

504 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: has written to sooth Michell about move of railway management to Rhodesia; general news. - 1922 Feb 7

505 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: preparation of figures for talks with Smuts; drafting of Petition of Right; to see counsel re Northern Rhodesia reference to Privy Council; has heard that Robert Williams has obtained capital to build Lobito Bay line. - 1922 Feb 8

506 - Birchenough, Beaconsfield, to P.L.G.: went to C.O. with Maguire, very successful talks; C.O. agreed to limit claim for Extraordinary War Expenditure to £¼m. if Southern Rhodesia opts for Union. - [?early 1922]

507 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: London Office news including composition of delegation to meet Smuts; disarray of Resp. Govt. party; consolidation of Liebig's ranch; obtaining schoolmasters; etc. - 1922 Feb 9

508 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: news of South Africa politics; Stellenbosch Fruit Show. - 1922 Feb 9

509 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: comments on Maguire's proposals for restructuring the railway boards; labour situation in South Africa; rise of party in Southern Rhodesia in favour of leaving the Company in control. - 1922 Feb 22

510 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: labour troubles in the mines at the Rand; giving hospitality to Mrs. Greaves and her daughters. - 1922 Mar 7

511 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: arrival of directors to see Smuts; labour troubles on the Rand; dangers of international trade unions; has agreed not to advance further money through the Land Bank. - 1922 Mar 17

512 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: account of the talks with Smuts; has been talking with Inskipp re his commercial department. - 1922 Apr 6

513 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: London Office news, including political prospects in Southern Rhodesia; news from Inskipp of commercial matters; enclosed article in The National Review by Iver MacIver on Rhodesia. - 1922 Apr 11

514 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: Coghlan not interested by Smuts' offer, but voters may be. - 1922 Apr 23

515 - Michell, Port Elizabeth, to P.L.G.: non-progress of Union negotiations; enclosed photo. of Mrs. Tawse-Jollie. - 1922 May 14

516 - Birchenough, Oxford, to P.L.G.: account of dealings with Malcolm & cables exchanged: is afraid that Malcolm is being hustled by Smuts; alternative proposals for suggestion to Smuts, esp. re railways. - 1922 Jun 4

517 - Birchenough, Oxford, to P.L.G.: further cables from Malcolm; has cabled Maguire in Madeira re proposal to leave railways out of the reckoning for the time being; must wait for Maguire's return before coming to decision; arrangements for board meeting. - [6 Jun 1922]

518 - Birchenough, Oxford, to P.L.G. : coming to London; need to extricate themselves from complex negotiations and to return to a plain, straight deal with Smuts. - 1922 Jun 6

519 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: new National Bank in South Africa, discredit of the old; proposed peerage of Sir J.B. Robinson; would like to see a history of the Company written soon; paramouncy of German trade in South Africa - 1922 Jun 7

520 - Winchester, [Schinzach les Bains], to P.L.G.: will reply to his 1tr. at length; glad Maguire was so forthcoming, he never is when he is present. [Only one half page, but written before that of Jun 24.] - [1922 Jun]

521 - Winchester, Schinzach les Bains, to P.L.G.: comments on and discusses Gell's estimate of the future of the Company after the referendum. - 1922 Jun 24

522 - Millar to P.L.G.: Northern Rhodesia expenditure; levying of income tax in Bechuanaland; Gell's signature to minutes. - 1922 Aug 15

523 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: C.O. has been considering the effect of the Petition of Right on the land clauses of the draft Letters Patent; Resp. Govt., even if voted for, cannot be introduced until 1924; success of Smuts' visit to Rhodesia; financial arrangements made by Malcolm to pay for pro-Union propaganda in Southern Rhodesia, agreed to find more money, which has been sent to Birkenruth who is controlling the funds. - 1922 Aug 16

524 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: has had an operation on his eyes; general news from London Office, including Northern Rhodesia expenditure; fiscal policies of the Govt. in Bechuanaland; Coryndon's move from Uganda to Kenya, etc. [Page 3 is missing.] - 1922 Aug 16

525 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including political situation in Southern Rhodesia, low calibre of the supporters of Union; action of the Southern Rhodesia Auditor-General in forwarding papers re use of administrative surplus for commercial purposes to the Resident Commissioner; article by Malcolm in Round Table re a common Imperial policy, etc. - 1922 Aug 24

526 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: holiday plans; Inskipp's illness; office arrangements. - [1922 Sep]

527 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: plans for holiday in Italy; office arrangements; agrees that the pro-Union party is feeble and will be out manoeuvred by Coghlan. - [Sep 1922]

528 - British South Africa Company to P.L.G.: notification of credit of fees as president. - 1922 Oct 28

529 - British South Africa Company to P.L.G.: notification of special leave of absence from board. - 1923 Jan 4

530 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: sad to hear of resignation from the presidency; has been ill; hopes of Resp. Govt. soon in Southern Rhodesia; rain has at last fallen in South Africa, will make Assembly more friendly to Smuts. - 1923 Jan 18

531 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including Birchenough's illness; conversation with Francis Newton; exchange of land with Liebig; problems with the tanning factory. - 1923 Jan 19

532 - British South Africa Company to P.L.G.: statement of fees as president for quarter ending Jan 29. - 1923 Jan 29

533 - P. Inskipp, Bulawayo, to P.L.G.: news of his impending resignation was not too great a surprise; is on his way to Johannesburg to give advice to the Meat Exchange which is once more in extremis; saw Michell, who is making a good recovery. - 1923 Feb 1

534 - Winchester to P.L.G.: hopes that he does not feel that he has been pushing too hard but is necessary to get Maguire elected before he will act; Milner has insisted that it should be minuted that he has not been a member of the Executive Committee for the last ten years; news of Resp. Govt. - 1923 Feb 7

535 - Secretary, British South Africa Company, to P.L.G.: formal notification of acceptance of his resignation and of election of Maguire as president. - 1923 Feb 8

536 - G.C. Candler, British South Africa Company, to P.L.G.: adding his personal note to the general regret of the British South Africa Company staff at his resignation. - 1923 Feb 9

537 - Arthur Brodrick, Eaton Square, to Edith Gell : sorry at P.L.G.'s resignation. [Arthur Grenville Brodrick was 3rd son of 8th Visc. Midleton and brother of Edith Gell.] - 1923 Feb 9

538 - A.P. Millar to P.L.G.: expresses regret of the staff at his resignation. - 1923 Feb 9

539 - Mabel Birchenough to P.L.G.: Birchenough grateful for sympathy during his ill health; grateful too for P.L.G.'s work in handing over of job to Maguire as well as for his (Gell's) wish to nominate himself (B.). - [1923] Feb 10

540 - Malcolm to P.L.G.: thanks for condolences on death of his father; regret at his resignation; unanimity in electing Maguire; Milner is most likely to be persona grata with new Rhodesian govt.; caution is needed now rather than dash. - [1923] Feb 10

541-544 - British South Africa Company: administration minutes re resignation of P.L.G. and election of Maguire & copy 1tr. from P.L.G. in thanks for expressions of regret, etc. - 1923 Feb 8-13

545 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: account of his illness; news of negotiations with C.O.; comments on quality of Maguire's work; visit from Milner. - 1923 Feb 24

546 - Maguire to P.L.G.: shareholders' meeting was a great success; much resentment felt at treatment received from the govt. - 1923 Mar 3

547 - British South Africa Company to P.L.G.: enclosed cheque for fees as Trustee for the First Mortgage Debenture. - 1923 Mar 29

548 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: delay of the Govt. in settling anything; problems of South Africa banking situation; South Africa political news. - 1923 Apr 13

549 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: criticism of Moore and his running of the Tobacco Company; criticism of the C.O. - 1923 Jul 5

550 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including Land Bank affairs; future of the Land Settlement Department staff in Southern Rhodesia, etc. - 1923 Aug 15

551 - Michell, Cape Town, to P.L.G.: prospects for the Company now it has lost its administration responsibilities. - 1923 Aug 23

552 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including re-organisation of records in the Cape Town office; future of the Land Bank. [First 2 pages only.] - 1923 Aug 31

553 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including representation of Rhodesia at next year's Empire Exhibition; sale of Nyasaland estates; preparation of material for press comment at end of Company's administration of Southern Rhodesia, etc.; enclosed cutting re Balliol College chapel. - 1923 Sep 14

554 - Michell, Bulawayo, to P.L.G.: Inskipp too extravagant for commercial ventures. - 1923 Sep 1

555 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: copper developments in Northern Rhodesia, will compensate for loss of traffic on Congo rlwy. to Lobito Bay line. [Last part only.] - [late 1923]

556 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general office news, including Birchenough's health; shareholders' meeting; Inskipp's new responsibilities in the Leg. Assembly, etc. - 1924 Aug 1

557 - Geo. W. Reynolds, King William St., E.C.4. to P.L.G.: comments unfavourably on the Rhodesian Bill for a mandatory deposit of £10,000 for insurance cos. wishing to undertake fire and accident business; wishes that the British South Africa Company would use its influence against this measure. - 1924 Aug 20

558 - Marshall Hole to P.L.G.: general London Office news, including appointment of Newton as High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia; enclosed memorandum re report of Commission enquiring into cost of administration in Southern Rhodesia - 1924 Aug 29

559 - Birchenough, Keston, Kent, to P.L.G.: news of their health and life; Inskipp arriving home soon, points to consider; impressed by Rhodesian Civil Service report. - 1924 Sep 3

560-561 - Birchenough to Mrs. Gell: enclosed a 1tr. to P.L.G. written on behalf of the board sounding him as to his attitude to resignation; shareholders are calling for changes in board's composition, etc. - 1924 Nov 9

562 - Birchenough to Mrs. Gell: agrees that his last letter should not be shown to P.L.G.: till he is well enough to cope with it. - 1924 Nov 19

563 - Birchenough to Mrs. Gell: hopes P.L.G. is improving; problem of the board is pressing, if they do not elect someone of their own choice before shareholders' meeting then an outsider may be forced on them. - 1924 Dec 30

564 - P.L.G. to Birchenough: is willing to resign to make way for a greater commercial element; would like to know whom the board are proposing before he makes his final decision. - [1925 Jan]

565 - Birchenough to P.L.G.: thanks for 1tr. - 1925 Jan 2

566 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : Maguire's illness; have chosen the new directors, Arthur Villiers, Sir Drummond Chaplin & Sir William Nicholls. [Arthur George Villiers, 2nd son of 7th Earl of Jersey, director of Baring Brothers & Company Sir William Edgar Nicholls, Manager & Chairman of Spiller & Company, director of Barclays Bank Ltd., Barclays (Dominion, Colonial & Overseas) Bank Ltd. and British Oak Insurance Company] - 1925 Jan 15

567 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : news of Maguire's illness; will have to hold annual meeting without Maguire, he (B.) will chair it, as allowing Malcolm to do this would only add to his troubles; arrangements for announcing of P.L.G.'s resignation. - 1925 Jan 23

568 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : draft report to shareholders; Maguire 's illness. - 1925 Feb 10

569 - Malcolm to P.L.G. : regret at resignation. - 1925 Feb 12

570 - D. of Abercorn to P.L.G. : regret at his resignation from the board; Maguire is still very ill; glad that Chaplin is joining them. - 1925 Feb 13

571 - P.L.G. to Birchenough : deep regret at severing contact with Company after 26 years. - 1925 Feb

572 - Birchenough to P.L.G. : will read his letter to the shareholders; news of office and of Maguire. - 1925 Feb 20

573 - Mabel Birchenough, London S.W., to Mrs. Gell : long account of the shareholders' meeting; fears of meeting Ld. Winchester after his shameless conduct; the 'family luncheon' after the meeting has now been dropped; news of women's emigration, Mrs. Fox's chairmanship of the Committee. - [1925] Feb 24

574 - O. Beit to P.L.G. : regret at resignation; success of general meeting. - [1925] Feb 24

575 - Hole to P.L.G. : success of the general meeting; impressions of the new members of the board. - [1925] Feb 25

576 - Birchenough, Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland, to P.L.G. : Milner's death; kindness of his colleagues when he accepted presidency of British South Africa Company [on Maguire's death]; disappointment of Malcolm at not succeeding Maguire and at not being put on any of the Railway Boards. - [1925] Jun 28

577 - Michell, Rondebosch, to Mrs. Gell : answers for his wife re getting some Van Der Hum for P.L.G.; suggests that they should go to Madeira. - [1925] Sep 3

578 - Michell, Rondebosch, to P.L.G. : shipping strike engineered by Bolshevists; should send all communists to remote island; wishes to have a photograph of P.L.G. - [1925] Sep 6

579 - Marshall Hole to Mrs. Gell : sorry at P.L.G.'s continued illness; short tenure of office by Mr. Villiers, value of Sir Wm. Nicholls to the board, election of new directors; news of Birchenough and of Michell; has recently visited Canada. - 1925 Nov 10

580 - P.L.G. to Jameson; does not think that the British South Africa Company should sell its Victoria Falls Power Company shares in France at 17s.; is sure that it is not necessary to take such a loss.

581 - Jameson to P.L.G. : have had discussions with Walsh re organisation of ranching in Southern Rhodesia; ready to make appointments of managers, etc.

582 - Winchester to P.L.G. : agrees that the Company should sell its shares; however it does not have a good reputation for financial acumen in this field. [2nd page only.]

583 - P.L.G. to Maguire : has heard from Sir Walter Lawrence; if he were to be offered a place on the board, thinks he might accept; very capable man. [Sir Walter Roger Lawrence, 1st Bt., educ. at Balliol, I.C.S. 1877-1909 when he resigned from Council of India, saw service at Home, India, America and Middle East in Great War.]

584 - British South Africa Company: rules and regulations to be observed by staff at the London Office.

585-596 - Misc. fragments of letters, memorandums, press-cuttings, etc., re British South Africa Company, including undated letter from P.L.G. to [Sir Arthur?] Godley re land tenure in India and Egypt.

4 - British South Africa Company: general papers relating to Southern Rhodesia

5 - Land Settlement.

6 - Mines and Mining

7 - Native affairs and native labour

8 - North Eastern Rhodesia

9 - North Western Rhodesia

10 - Northern Rhodesia

11 - Railways

12 - The Zambesi and de Laessoe

13 - Charter Trust & Agency

14 - Royal Charter, Orders-in-Council, ordinances and proclamations

15 - Fragments

BXA - BRITISH EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALASIA, LTD. - 1900-1910

MIL - Correspondence mostly between P.L. Gell and Alfred Milner (cr. Viscount Milner)

RTC - Rhodesian Trading Company Ltd

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