Guide to Daily Correspondence of the Coast, Rift Valley, Central, and Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives Microfilm
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Syracuse University SURFACE Kenya National Archives Guides Library Digitized Collections 1984 Guide to daily correspondence of the Coast, Rift Valley, Central, and Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives microfilm Robert G. Gregory Syracuse University Richard E. Lewis Syracuse University Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/archiveguidekenya Part of the African Studies Commons Recommended Citation Gregory, Robert G. and Lewis, Richard E., "Guide to daily correspondence of the Coast, Rift Valley, Central, and Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives microfilm" (1984). Kenya National Archives Guides. 8. https://surface.syr.edu/archiveguidekenya/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Library Digitized Collections at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kenya National Archives Guides by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Microfilm 4752 111111.111132911 02626671 8 MEPJA A Guide INC£)( to Daily Correspondence 1n~ of the ..:S 9 Coast, Rift Valley, Central;o.~ and Northeastern Provinces: KENYA NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM Robert G. Gregory and Richard E. Lewis Eastern Africa Occasional Bibliography No. 28 Foreign and Comparative Studies Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University 1984 Copyright 1984 by MAXWELL SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, U.S.A. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gregory, Robert G. A guide to daily correspondence of the Coast, Rift Valley, Central, and Northeastern Provinces. (Eastern Africa occasional bibliography; no. 28) 1. Kenya National Archives--Microform catalogs. 2. Kenya--Politics and government--Sources--Bibliography- Microform catalogs. 3. Kenya--History--Sources--Bibliogra phy--Microform catalogs. 4. Bird Library--Microform catalogs. 5. Documents on microfilm--Catalogs. I. Lewis, Richard E., 1936- II. Kenya National Archives. III. Title. IV. Series: Occasional bibliography (Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Program of Eastern African Studies) ; no. 28. Z716S.A42S9 no. 28 016.967 5 [016.9676'2] 84-8092 [CD2364] ISBN 0-915984-64-4 /~ 3.:)Jh Si yt-o.22 CONTENTS Introduct1on .. • • • •"•• • .. • • .. .. • .. .. • • .. .. •• •• 1 Coa at Pravince R1ft Valley Province .. • • .. .. .. .. • "• • • ••• ;II • • •• • 91 Central Province .. ., .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 134 Northeastern Province .. " . .. .. ., . .. .. .. .. " 163 Indexes: Coast Province 185 Ritt Valley Province 194 Central Province 200 Northeastern Province 205 INTRODUCTION The daily correspondence of the provincial and district officers of the East Africa Protectorate and Kenya Colony were microfilmed during the 1960s as part of a cooperative project between the Kenya National Archives and Syracuse University. Syracuse, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, helped to collect the documents from the prOVincial and district offices and then to organize and microfilm them. The documents and the microfilm negatives were retained by the Archives, while Syracuse received a positive copy. Subsequently another positive copy was obtained by the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) of the Center for Research Libraries. This guide was prepared at Syracuse University during 1982-84 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is an index to the following collections of daily correspondence: Coast Province, 2nd series, 1894-1965: 150 reels Central Province, 1888-1964: 71 reels (1-40, 61-91) Rift Valley Province, 1894-1959: 61 reels Northeastern Province, 1909-63: 46 reels The daily correspondence of these four provinces appears now to have been photographed in its entirety. Whereas all the correspondence for the Central, Rift Valley, and Northeastern Provinces is described 1n this gUide, only the second series of the documents for the Coast Province is included. The first series of 220 reels was microfilmed earlier and at the time was thought to include all the extant documents. Later another collection of the Coast records was discovered, and it. has been designated the second series. A guide to the first series was compiled earlier at Syracuse University: Soff, Harvey. A ~ !2 ~ ~ Province Microfilm Collection ~ ~ ~ National Archiyes: ~ Seyidie (~) PrOVinces, Correspondence .&Wi Reports, 1891-1962. Syracuse: Syracuse University Program of Eastern African Studies, 1971. The daily correspondence of the provincial and district officers is the most elementary and detailed record of the colonial administration. It consists of letters, telegrams, circulars, reports, memoranda, and copies of legislation that were circulated among the colonial officials or ii were sent to them by Europeans, Indians, and Africans outside the administration. These records were filed in manila folders, each with a categorical title, and kept in the filing cabinets in the provincial and district office. From these records the provincial and district officers compiled their annual and Quarterly reports, handing over reports, intelligence reports, and political record books. These more formal reports were also not intended for publication, but for use by the higher administration. They const!tute a useful supplement to the daily correspondence for any province or district. They have been indexed for all Kenya by Syracuse University in a single volume known as the "green guide": Gregory, Robert G., Robert M. Maxon, and Leon P. Spencer. J ~ ,.kg ~ ~ National Archiyes: !g ~ Microfilms ~ ~ Proyinoial ~ Distrigt .AnD.wll Reports, ~ ~, .Gd Handing Oyer-Reports; Miscellaneous Correspondence; .and Intelligence Reports. Syracuse: Syracuse University Program of Eastern African Studies, 1968. In the present guide to the daily correspondence there is an apparent discrepancy. The seventy-one reels for Central Province are numbered not 1-71, but 1-40 and 61-91. The gap should not be interpreted as evidence of missing reels. It appears to have been the result of an error in numbering. In this guide the files of correspondence appear as tollows: Number of reel on which tile appears Title of file Inclusive dates of file contents REEL 303 MIL 32 DEFENCE REGULATIONS. PROTECTED 1942-43 2/1010 AND CLOSED AREAS. EVACUATION OF L365 PP. CIVILIANS. LFile numbers assigned by Total pages 1n the colonial government the file iii lfhe microfilm reels of the daily correspondence may be viewed in the Syracuse University Library or borrowed through interlibrary loan from CAMP, Center for Research Libraries, 5721 S. Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637. At the request of the Kenya government, both Syracuse University and CAMP conform to the practice of the Kenya National Archives by denying access to any unpublished documents written within the last thirty years. These microfilms are cataloged at Syracuse University as follows: Coast Province Film 4750 Central Province Film 4751 Rift Valley Province Film 4752 Northeastern Province Film 4753 COAST PROVINCE REEL 221 ST 1/1 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1927-34 2/1 EUROPEAN. 346 pp. ST 1/1/1 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1927-34 2/2 HR. B.L. LOW. 45 pp. ST 1/1/2 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1927-29 2/3 HR. R. P. PLATT. 15 pp. ST 1/1/3 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1927-33 2/4 HR. E.D. EMLEY. 57 pp. ST 1/1/4 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1923-29 2/5 HR. D. MCKAY. 43 pp. ST 1/1/6 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1926-33 2/6 MR. G.M. CASTLE-SMITH. 73 pp. ST 1/1/7 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1926-32 1/7 MR. H.R. MONTGOMERY. 189 pp. ST 1/1/8 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1926-29 1/8 MR. B.G. OLDFIELD. 82 pp. ST 1/1/9 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1925-41 1/9 HR. S.R. HARRISON-LOWDER. 129 pp. (Continued on Reel 222) REEL 222 1/9 MR. S.R. HARRISON-LOWDER. 79 pp. (Continued from Reel 221) ST 1/1/10 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1921-29 2/10 CAPTAIN W.R. KIDD. 53 pp. ST 1/1/11 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1919-32 2/11 MR. W.S. MARCHANT. 119 pp. ST 1/1/13 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1928 2/12 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL O.F. WATKINS. 4 pp. ST 1/1/14 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1926-28 2/13 MR. G.B. THOMPSON. 16 pp. ST 1/1/16 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929 2/14 MR. H.E. LAMBERT. 10 pp. ST 1/1/17 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929 2/15 HR. E.R. SHACKLETON. 4 PP. ST 1/1/19 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1925-31 2/16 MR. H.E.L. BRAILSFORD. 110 pp. ST 1/1/21 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929-30 2/17 MR. A.J. STEVENSON. 24 pp. ST 1/1/22 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929-31 2/18 CAPTAIN H.G. GREGORY-SMITH. 29 pp. ST 1/1/23 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929-30 PAGE 2 2/19 HR. J.L.B.L. LLEWELLIN. 13 pp. ST 1/1/211 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929-45 2/20 H. J. H. CLIVE. 75 pp. ST 1/1/25 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1929-33 2/21 E.J. WADDINGTON. 24 pp. ST 1/1/26 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-33 2/22 HR. C.T. DAVENPORT. 28 pp. ST 1/1/21 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-36 2/23 HR. R. PEDRAZA. 63 pp. ST 1/1/28 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-~5 2/24 HR. C.B. NORMAN. 18 pp. ST 1/1/29 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-32 2/25 J.W. CUSACK. 54 pp. ST 1/1/30 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-40 2/26 CAPTAIN C.E. USHER. 23 pp. REEL 223 ST 1/1/31 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-33 2/27 MR J.F.G. TROUGHTON. 37 pp. ST 1/1/32 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-31 2/28 MR. R.T. LAMBERT. 15 pp. ST 1/1/34 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1931-32 2/29 HR. V.G. COLE. 46 pp. ST 1/1/35 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1930-33 2/30 HR. LL. A. FIELD JONES. 67 pp. ST 1/1/38 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1931-35 2/31 MR. J. H. FLYNN. 50 pp. ST 1/1/40 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1931-44 2/32 MR. R.D.F. RYLAND. 7 pp. ST 1/1/41 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1923-38 2/33 CAPTAIN E.G. ST.C. TISDALL. 16 pp. ST 1/1/42 ADMINISTRATION. APPOINTMENTS. 1932 2/34 M.