Correspondence, mainly letters from the Bishop of St. Helena to the Bishop of Cape Town, but also from clergy, officials and inhabitants of St. Helena, the Bishop of London, the Secretary of S.P.C.K. and the. Organising Secretary of the English Church Union.

Correspondents:

W.O.B. Allen.

E. Barraclough.

R.W. Carr.

Bishop M. Creighton(London).

E.H. Dodgson.

P.P. Fogg.

Lord Halifax.

Bishop W.W. Jones.

T.O. Marshall.

Peacock & Goddard.

H.W. Tucker.

F.E. & W.H.E. Welby.

J.W. Williams.

Subjects:

Church property on the island.

Future of the church in Madeira.

Possibility of St-Helena being joined to the chureh in West Africa.

Abolition of the colonial chaplaincy makes the financcs of the Bishop difficult.

The synod of 1886 gives only partial acceptance to the Provincial Constitution and Canons, as many of the representatives are pro-Colenso in attitudc and wish to break with Cape Town.

Bishopric Endowment Ordinance passod 1886 but Sir H. Holland advises the Queen not to ratify it in its present form. The Ordinance is confirmed in 1887, with the Queen's right of appointment reserved.

Resignation of Bishop Welby, 1898, and question of a successor.

Archdeacon Fogg's visitation to St. Helena in 1898 to mediate between Bishop Welby and the Rev. Barraclough. Trial of Barraclough by Bishop Welby for immoral ccnduct is stopped by the Governor but will go beforc the Priyy Council.

Death of Bishop Welby in a carriage accident, 1899.

Professor of Physiology, Oxford

The letters are from Charles Darwin, Lord Derby, T.H. Huxley, Lord Kelvin and Lord Salisbury and refer mainly to the preparation of legislation regarding experiments on living animals.

Correspondence between J.S. Sanderson and Charles Darwin:
DCP-LETT-9939F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 18 April 1875, enclosing the copy of the letter to CD from Lord Derby (E. H. Stanley, 15th earl of Derby; the original of this enclosure is DCP-LETT-9938).
DCP-LETT-9942F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 22 April [1875], enclosing the letter to CD from T. H. Huxley, 21 April 1874 (DCP-LETT-9942), and a letter to CD from Richard Litchfield that has not been found.
Both of the above letters were written by Francis Darwin, CD’s third son, who acted as his father’s secretary.
DCP-LETT-9948F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 24 April [1875]. This letter was written by CD’s wife, Emma. The writing paper is headed with the Darwin family crest and its motto, ‘Cave et aude’.
DCP-LETT-9966F To J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 3 May 1875. This may also have been written by Emma.

The correspondence relating to Charles Darwin has been described by the Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge University Library, UK. The reference codes as used by the Charles Darwin Project has been included above for reference to the items as they will be published on the website of the Darwin Correspondence Project.

An account of a voyage which started from England in 1898 and continued to the Far East. The first entry is dated 14 Feb. 1899 at Durban and contains a short description of the town. The major part of the diary is devoted to an account of her visits to Ceylon, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and covers the period Feb-Oct. 1899.

The authors/persons listed here in alphabetical order relate to various subject matter during the Government of Paul Krüger (often spelled Kruger), President of the Transvaal Republic.