Contains among other things: Financial support for an expedition through western Sudan, Liberia and northern Togo. 1909 Grants for a further expedition in 1910 from Nigeria through North Cameroon to the Sahara

380 HOL 1/1. Correspondence between members of the Holt Family, 161 docs., 1861-1915, n.d. 380 HOL 1/2. Copies of letters from Mary Kingsley to John Holt, 1 vol., n.d. 380 HOL 1/3. Newscuttings, 26 vols., 1876-1933, 1961-1963 380 HOL 1/4. Letter Books, 14 vols., 1867-1914 380 HOL 1/5. Directors' Meetings, Produce Prices and Quantities, Investments, Allotments, etc., 7 vols., 1900-1912 380 HOL 1/6. Trade Diaries, 20 vols., 1875-1905 380 HOL 1/7. Notes and Letters on the opening up of trade on the Niger after the revocation of the Royal Niger Co.'s Charter, 1 vol., 1900-1903 380 HOL 1/8. Miscellaneous Account Books, 9 vols., 1867-1926 380 HOL 1/9. Miscellaneous Volumes, 2 vols., 1906-1942 380 HOL 1/10. Photograph Albums, 9 vols., 1901-1931 380 HOL 11. Photographs, c. 1100 items, [1851] -1941, n.d. 380 HOL 1/12. Papers relating to the Lagos Customs Law Case, 2 vols., 1 bundle, 1908-1916 380 HOL 1/13. Papers relating to claims made by John Holt

Plymouth: SS Ernest Woermann (Woermann Line) travelling from Lagos to Plymouth. Embarking at Lagos, Accra, Cape Coast Castle, Sekondi, Monrovia and Swakopmund. Official Number: [No official number listed]. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth.

Picture postcard;nSender;

(Old) Calabar Railway Survey..'. 4 sheets of maps and plans. (5) Map of Southern Nigeria, and parts of Lagos Colony, Northern Nigeria, Cameroon and Dahomey (now Benin), showing rivers, major towns, the Lagos railway, and a proposed new railway line from Calabar to Nsan. Scale: 1 inch to 30 miles [1:1,900,800]. (6) Map of the area between the Cross River and the boundary between Southern Nigeria and Cameroon, showing other rivers, towns and the proposed new railway. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles [1:506,880]. (7) Plan of Calabar (now in Cross River State, Nigeria) showing the proposed line and the planned sites of the station and sidings. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile [1:5,280]. (8) Sheet bearing a plan and horizontal section of the proposed route. Plan to scale, and section to horizontal scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]; section to vertical scale: 1 inch to 200 feet [1:2,400]. Compass indicators to magnetic north to all items. Photoprinted by Miss A West and Partners, Broadway Chambers. Dimensions: (5-6, 8) each 28 cm x 48 cm; (7) 28 cm x 49 cm. Originally accompanying a report by Messrs Baker and Shelford, 7 December 1904.

Contains: Climate of Nigeria Dr. Wengler: "Nigeria. "Organization and legal status."

Manuscripts, diaries, photos, correspondence, documents, printed matter

Enthält u.a.: The Financier and Bullionist, London, May 1909 Nigeria Bitumen Corporation Ltd. Directors’ Report and Accounts, December 1908 Expeditionsberichte

Map of Nigeria'. Map showing the coast west from Lagos to Victoria and north to Kano, with the boundaries of separate Niger territories, administrative districts (named), provinces, towns, rivers, relief, telegraph lines, and approximate route of railway, with notes on boundaries, and the accuracy of the map. Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office from boundary surveys, surveys by officers of the Royal Niger Company, and others. Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1901. The map is overprinted on IDWO 1390.

Contains: Cameroon, Joßtown, Bagida, Accra, Lome, Lagos, Cameroon, North Atlantic

Contains: Cameroon, Luanda, São Tomé, Lagos

Liverpool: SS Zaria (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Lagos and Victoria. Official Number: 118078. List of passengers disembarking at Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Tarquah (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Forcados, Victoria, Bonny, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Dakar. Official Number: 115239. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Tarquah (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Forcados, Bonny, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi and Sierra Leone. Official Number: 115239. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Tarquah (African Royal Mail Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Las Palmas. Official Number: 115293. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Talaba (African Royal Mail Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Monrovia and Sierra Leone. Official Number: 124000. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Sobo (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Matadi, Loanda, Cameroon, Calabar, Lagos, Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi, Axim, Monrovia, Sierra Leone and Grand Canary. Official Number: 110056. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Sekondi (African Steamship Company) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Calabar, Bonny, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Gaboon, Batanga and Axim. Official Number: 106837. List of passengers disembarking at Liverpool and Plymouth.

Liverpool: SS Prahsu (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone, Dakar and Las Palmas. Official Number: 124075. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Nigeria (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Bonny, Fernando Po, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Tenerife. Official Number: 114747. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Nigeria (African Steamship Company) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Batanga, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Axim, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra and Sekondi. Official Number: 114747. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Nigeria (African Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from Loanda to Liverpool. Embarking at Loanda, Boma, Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Axim, Sierra Leone and Las Palmas. Official Number: 114747. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mendi (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Las Palmas. Official Number: 120875. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mendi (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Dakar. Official Number: 120875. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mendi (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Dakar. Official Number: 120875. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mendi (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Axim, Sierra Leone, Dakar and Tenerife. Official Number: 120875. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mendi (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from Calabar to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Victoria, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi and Sierra Leone. Official Number: 120875. List of passengers disembarking at Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Maneo (Booth Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from Calabar to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Lagos and Sierra Leone. Official Number: 124116. List of passengers disembarking at Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Mandingo (Elder Dempster

Liverpool: SS Mandingo (British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Sekondi, Lagos, Sierra Leone, Bonny, Forcados, Yola, Cameroon, Opobo, Calabar, Southern Nigeria and Boma. Official Number: 108762. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth.

Liverpool: SS Mandingo (African Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Fernando Po, Rio Del Rey, Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi, Axim, Sierra Leone, Las Palmas and Grand Canary. Official Number: 123693. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Karina (African Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Forcados, Bonny, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Dakar. Official Number: 120573. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Karina (African Steamship Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi and Dakar. Official Number: 120573. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Falaba (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Forcados, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Las Palmas. Official Number: 124000. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Elmina (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Forcados, Bonny, Lagos, Accra, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Dakar. Official Number: 129183. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.

Liverpool: SS Elmina (Elder Dempster Company Ltd) travelling from West Africa to Liverpool. Embarking at Douala, Calabar, Bonny, Fernando Po, Forcados, Lagos, Lomé, Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi, Sierra Leone and Grand Canary. Official Number: 129183. List of passengers disembarking at Plymouth and Liverpool.