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Papers of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
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Addresses

(*MSS Afr S 209 1/6).

The British Empire and general colonial affairs. Addresses given at the A.G.M. of the Royal Colonial Institute in 1922.

Basutoland and the Basutos

(*MSS Afr S 211 3/1, 3/2).

Basutoland and the Basutos - address read at meeting of the Scottish Geographical Society, 1901 June Various copies, one with corrections. Papers relating to the book.

Basutoland Native Laws and Meetings of the National Pitso.

Biography

(*MSS Afr S 209 1/4).

Account of Langden's early life recorded by his son Reginald in London, January 1924. Records arrival in Natal and the journey from Durban to Pretoria. Became Private Secretary to the Administrator Sir Owen Lanyon. Account of First South African War and the siege of Pretoria.

Account of his life in his own hand "made at the request of my son Reginald in 1912-1913".

autograph letter signed To Reggie on his departure for India in 1919.

Account of his official life made in 1926 covering the years 1878-1907.

United Empire, The Journal the Royal Empire Society vxxv. No.8 August 1934 which contains tributes to the memory of Sir Godfrey,.

Miscellaneous letters and articles.

British Commissioner's Official Diary Swaziland

(*MSS Afr S 164).

Records official engagements, meetings and British administration policy; dispute with Transvaal Republic government re customs concessions; grazing rights given to Boers and the subsequent encroaching of the Transvaal on Swazi territory; fears that the Transvaal will get Swaziland by virtue of occupation to enable them to build a railway line to Delagoa Bay; Swazi-Portuguese Boundary Commission.

Correspondence

(*MSS Afr S 270 2/6).

Correspondence with Theophilus Shepstone and D.J. Esseler re smallpox epidemic in Swaziland; correspondence with C.T. Dawkins re Customs Conference held at Bloemfontein 1896. Lagden representing Basutoland.

Correspondence

(*MSS Afr 210 2/8).

Correspondence with Lord Milner and memorandum on the Modus Vivendi. Correspondence deals with native affairs, the Indian Question, the Portuguese Labour Supply, Swaziland becoming British Protectorate, Squatters Laws, Inter-Colonial South African Native Affairs Commission.

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