Malawi. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 34.0000. Latitude: -13.5000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Dates:
1885-1886 and undated.
Album of photographs of Nyasa Field Force., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7548/F/26
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Dates:
Undated.
Album of photographs of Overtoun Memorial Church., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7548/F/32
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Dates:
Undated.
Correspondence and papers of Tom Price.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9761
Scope and Contents
Concerns the languages and peoples of Malawi.
Dates:
1938-1988.
Journal of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13411
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1880-1881, of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi. James Sutherland was recruited as an agriculturalist for the Free Church of Scotland mission in Nyasaland, now Malawi, during its early years. His journal describes his journey up the Zambesi and the Shire, and includes comment on the landscape and its suitability for cultivation. Sutherland arrives at the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in February 1881, where he stays for a few weeks before...
Dates:
1880-1885.
Journal of the Blantyre Mission, Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9218
Scope and Contents
Kept mainly by the Reverend David Clement Scott.
Dates:
1884-1896.
Minutes, with some associated administrative papers, relating to the Church of Scotland Blantyre Mission, Malawi; and works concerning the history of the mission.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9069/1-8
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1892-1947, circa 1980 and undated.
Notebook of Thomas D Thomson containing notes on tribal and clan statistics in Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10933
Dates:
circa 1934-1960.
Papers, 1936-1958, of William Oliver Petrie, missionary doctor and superintendent of hospitals, Malawi.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13582
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1936-1958, of William Oliver Petrie, missionary doctor and superintendent of hospitals, Malawi.William Oliver Petrie (1913-1998) was born at East Manse, Loanhead, Midlothian, the son of Rev. James Petrie and Mrs Cecilia Petrie. Rev. Petrie was the minister of the United Free Church at Loanhead. William was educated at Loanhead Primary School and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1936, and worked for a time at...
Dates:
1936-1958
Papers of Angus Calder.
File
Identifier: Acc.10468
Scope and Contents
Papers concern the detention of Malawian poet, Jack Mapanje.
Dates:
1987-1991.
Papers of Elizabeth Mantell, medical missionary and midwife in Malawi, including letters to her parents, her diaries, and draft reports; also included are diaries of Ruth Mantell, Elizabeth's sister, relating to her visits to Malawi.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14298/1-24
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of surviving letters of Elizabeth Mantell to her parents, her diaries covering both periods she spent nursing in Malawi, copies of her mission partner reports collected by her sister, Ruth, and a few ephemeral items.
The letters and diaries are detailed and discuss general life and the family, but also describe Elizabeth’s work in the hospitals. Ruth visited her sister in Malawi on a number of occasions, and her diaries from those visits are included.
Dates:
1962-1996.
Photocopies of letters of Andrew Bell, working in Malawi, to his family in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.10535
Dates:
1887-1890.
Photograph albums of visits by Lady Tweedsmuir as Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Chile, 1972; Malawi, 1972; Cameroon, January 1973; and Nigeria December 1973., 1972-1973.
File
Identifier: Acc.11884/349
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
1972-1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
/
Other correspondence and papers of Lady and Lord Tweedsmuir.
/
General and political correspondence and papers; series 2.
Photographic plates of Central Africa, mostly unidentified, but including two plates of Blantyre, Nyasaland., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10472/3
Scope and Contents
Two plates identified as: Interior of St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre. View of Blantyre from Mandela.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
/
Photographic plates and prints, with scripts for talks relating to photographs.
/
Photographic plates of Central Africa, including Kenya and Nyasaland.
Photographic slides of Elizabeth Mantell, missionary in Malawi.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13435
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth worked as a Church of Scotland missionary nurse in Mlanje Mission, Malawi 1966-1971, then as a sister tutor in Ekwendeni Mission, Malawi 1983-1996. Elizabeth used this set of annotated slides to illustrate talks on her work in Malawi which she gave when home on furlough. Subjects covered include schools, nurses, the church and visits to Zomba. `Grace sufficient` by Rev. David J. Randall, published in 2009, tells the story of Elizabeth`s life.
Dates:
1966-1971
Photographs and correspondence concerning presentation of communion cups to congregations in Zoa, Malawi., 1974-1975.
File
Identifier: Acc.10472/9
Dates:
1974-1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
/
Photographic plates and prints, with scripts for talks relating to photographs.
/
Photographic prints of Pakistan, India, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.
Photographs of David Steel during a visit to Malawi, including some photographs showing Steel with Bakili Muluzi, President of Malawi., [1994-1999].
File
Identifier: Acc.13477/255
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates:
[1994-1999].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Correspondence, papers, cuttings and photographs of David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, mostly relating to his political career.
/
Photographs from the life and career of David Steel.
/
Photographs of oversea visits by David Steel.
Script for 'In northern Malawi'., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/113
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
/
Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
/
Scripts, mostly to accompany film strips and slide sets.
Script for 'Village co-operatives in Malawi'., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10472/135
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
/
Film strips and slide sets, with accompanying audio tapes and scripts.
/
Scripts, mostly to accompany film strips and slide sets.
Slides of Malawi; M11 to M25., [1950-1971].
File
Identifier: Acc.10472/173
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Some numbers within each record may be missing.
Dates:
[1950-1971].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Photographic plates, prints, slides and film strips, with related scripts, correspondence and catalogues of the Church of Scotland Department of World Mission and Unity, concerning missionary activities, mostly in Africa.
/
Slides of various parts of Africa, with photocopies of catalogues.
Typescript of Richard Paterson`s memoir of life at Blantyre Mission, Malawi.
File
Identifier: Acc.9785
Scope and Contents
Includes:
six letters, 1929-1933 and undated, of the Reverend Dr Alexander Hetherwick to Patterson
letter, 1948, of J G Katchigie also to Patterson.
Dates:
1929-1988 and undated.