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The 1904-1915 East Africa Protectorate papers and letters of Kenneth and Claudia Dundas (the Hon. Kenneth Robert Dundas (1882-1915) and his wife, the Hon. Anne Claudia Dundas (née Whalley Foot) (1880-1943)).18.04.1904 Document from the Foreign Office appointing KRD as Assistant Collector, East Africa Protectorate, and instructing him to proceed abroad without delay, his salary of £250 per annum to begin from the day of embarkation.08.12.1909 the couple's original marriage certificate witnessed by Lord Melville (occupation Peer of the Realm).Full calf-leather bound copy of ‘Notes on the Tribes Inhabiting the Baringo District, East Africa Protectorate’ by the Hon. K.R. Dundas (The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 40 (Jan. - Jun., 1910), pp. 49-72 (27 pages and 15 photographic plates on 3 further pages.). The cover gilt-tooled with the title and initials CWD (Claudia Whalley Dundas). 78-word handwritten dedication from the author to his wife (CWD), ‘To the most perfect lady... her own true boy.’ dated 08.04.1911. Together with a letter sent to the author (at Machakos) from the Cambridge University anthropologist, Sir James George Frazer, dated 3.07.1911; thanking him for, and complimenting him on, the same paper, which Sir Arthur Hollis had forwarded him: ‘I made full use of it, with due acknowledgements, in my "Totemism and Exogamy" ... grateful thanks again for allowing me to use the paper.’ Also thanking and complimenting him on his latest paper, 'The Wawanga and Other Tribes of the Elgon District’.28.04.1912 Baptism card signed by Rev. Francis Buttanshaw, St Andrews, Cotterstock, and an envelope containing locks of CKMD’s hair in envelope marked ‘My little son’s hair, cut off at Kismayu, Jubaland - Oct 28 1912.’ 19.07.12 letter to KRD from Sir Percy Girouard (at 42 Great Cumberland Place), who had resigned two days before as Governor of the British East Africa Protectorate following his dispute over the displacement of the Maasai with the Colonial Secretary, Lord Milner.23.10.1912 Short typed letter to KRD from the Secretariat at Nairobi re non-collection of fines at Machakos (torn into pieces).05.12.1913 Army & Navy Ltd. (London branch) note regarding the binding of 'Tribes of the Elgin District, British East Africa’.13.12.13 Letter to KRD from the former captain of the SS Tuna, A.W. Blair, at Aden. KRD’s cask of crockery is now on its way by ship. The Club billiard table is still impounded due to incomplete customs forms. Future provision of cigarettes will be made by other skippers of the line.19.12.1913 letter to KRD from W.M. Crowdy at Keringet, Molo. Acknowledges KRD’s help. News from the Governor; news of: the settler, Edward Powys-Cobb; the newly appointed DC, Samuel F. Deck; and the newly formed Labour Commission.20.12.1913 Local Circular from Douglas Reid, the Asst. DC at Kismayu, re shortage of water tins and rationing of 2 tins per day to the Residency and 1 tin for the households of the DC, ADC, SP, MO, the Engineer and the Hospital.24.08.1913 a spirited letter to KRD from his 70-year-old father, the former career diplomat, the 6th Viscount Melville, staying at the Spa Hotel, Strathpeffer, with his second wife: ‘We have met here ... a most delightful Parsee family, Sir Somebody Jehangir from Bombay .. One of the daughters was so pretty, and so wonderfully well read in all English literature, as well as French. Ruskin, Montague, Milton, Gibbon were all alike to her, books no English girl ever looks at, and she was great fun too.’ Together with a transcript of a newspaper article headlined ‘THE SCOTTISH ROMANCE - Viscount to Have Shop Girl For His Third Wife’ reporting the marriage of the 78-year-old peer to a 40-year-old Edinburgh shop assistant of ‘strikingly handsome appearance’. Also a copy memorandum in the hand of Viscount Melville re the correspondence between him and the Keeper of the Privy Purse concerning his son's death at Gallipoli in August 1915.Diary of Mrs Dundas: Jan 30 to Feb 24 1913.Nine letters from Mrs Dundas at Kismayu to KRD on tour - 14.01.1913, 27.12.1913,29.12.1913, 01.01.1914, 03.01.1914, 06.01.1914, 07.01.1914, 08.01.1914 and 20.01.1914.08.04.1914 Report of the District Commissioner at Kismayu (KRD) on his 340-mile journey from Meru to Kismayu by camel train (each of the 10 pages with East Africa Protectorate stamp).A leather wallet containing a small photograph of the DC in mufti with his wife outside their bungalow, clipped photo of the DC in summer uniform, a circa 1913 postcard photograph of Mrs Dundas and her infant son, Claud, in camp or the garden and 5 of KRD’s calling cards.17.09.14 Pencil sketch of a building in the Port of Kismayo with the Union Jack (in colour) flying above in the background, presumably from a ship's mast. Indistinctly signed, dated lower left 17.9.14. (13.5cm x 20.25cm). Glazed gilt frame.10.01.1915 letter to KRD (now in the process of joining up in England) from Bilal G. Khamis, the Arabic Writer at the District Commissioner’s Office at Kismayo – wartime news of the staff there.12.08.915 Letter of condolence from Winston Churchill's private secretary, Edward Marsh. On Duchy of Lancaster Office notepaper '... his friendship was one of the best things I owed to my [1907?] journey in Africa...'30.08.1915 Typed (contemporary copy) letter from Hugh Moreton Frewen in Gallipoli to the Governor BEAP, Sir Henry Belfied. Details of the former DC’s death: ‘Your Excellency, Knowing the high regard in which the late Lieut. the Hon’ble K.R. Dundas, R.N.V.R. was held, and the many friends he possessed throughout the BEAP, I think you may be glad to learn a few particular events which led to his untimely loss ... he tried to tear himself free from the grip they [two medical officers] were maintaining upon the severed artery that he might no longer detain them ... and thus help me to discharge my last duty to a friend. Sd. H. Moreton Frewen R.N.V.R. (late Private Secretary to Sir Percy Girouard and Asst. Resident, N. Nigeria.).’05.11.1915 Letter from Government House, British East Africa to Mrs Dundas. Enclosed a detailed hand-sketched plan of the location of her husband’s grave made by Capt. Charrington, who was, in peacetime, a planter in BEA. (His body was exhumed and reburied at Lala Baba Cemetery in 1921.)08.07.1919 A Potters Arts Guild (Compton, Guilford) plan in pencil of KRD's stone wall memorial at St. Andrews, Cotterstock, and a photograph of the memorial.
An Arts and Crafts brass-bound oak planter,of square form, with a shelf, raised on square supports on turned feet, the supports with carved tops, 35cm square98.5cm highCondition report: The bottom of the planter tray with split. One of the carved tops appearing reattached. Some patination to the brass.
FOUR BOXES AND LOOSE CERAMIC ORNAMENTS AND COLLECTORS PLATES, to include clown on a swing hanging planter, approximately thirty four collectors plates, themes to include fairy tales, teddy bears, horses, steam trains, flowers, WWII, wildlife, etc, two boxes of animal ornaments to include Poole dolphins, Hornsea Fauna vase, Tony Wood cat cream jug, etc, figurines to include a group of card players, trinket boxes, crested ware, decorative eggs, etc (sd) 4 boxes and loose)
FORTY EIGHT PIECES OF ROYAL ALBERT 'OLD COUNTRY ROSES' TEA AND GIFTWARES, comprising tea pot, coffee pot in the Classic shape, 23cm vase, 18.5cm vase (second), lidded jar, planter height 11.5cm, heart shaped 'With Love' trinket dish, moulded flower ornament (small chips to petals), pepper pot, height 4.5cm (second), cream jug, two sugar bowls, dessert bowl, eight teacups (four seconds), ten saucers (seven seconds), twelve side plates (one second), five tea plates (three seconds) (condition: good, as stated)
A GROUP OF AYNSLEY, ROYAL CROWN DERBY AND ROYAL ALBERT GIFT AND TEAWARES, to include four pieces of Aynsley 'Pembroke', two vases, tallest 13.5cm, and two pin trays, ten pieces of Aynsley 'Cottage Garden' to include a tea cup and saucer, small planter, etc, Royal Albert 'Old Country Roses' Millenium Celebration trinket pot and covered jar, Royal Crown Derby 'Royal Antoinette' tea plate and 'Derby Posies' rectangular dish length 23cm, width 17cm, depth 5cm (Condition:- the square Aynsley Pembroke pin dish has some tiny chips to the corners, otherwise pieces appear in good condition) (Qty)
FOUR PIECES OF LATE VICTORIAN ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN, all hand painted on an ivory ground, comprising a bulbous vase, painted with blackberries and brambles, printed green mark, height 16cm, a mug decorated with floral sprays, printed puce mark, height 7.5cm, cracked near the top rim and crazed, a miniature circular planter on tripod base, impressed and green printed marks, height 6cm, small area of repainting to the gilt rim and a spherical twin handled bud vase, painted with floral sprays and on three ball feet, green printed marks, some wear to the gilding (3)
A COLLECTION OF AYNSLEY COTTAGE GARDEN GIFTWARE AND SIMILAR, including a cake knife, fork, letter opener, tortoise trinket box, owl trinket box, small planter, tea cup and saucer, pig trinket box, two ginger jars and cover, four plates, pin dishes, etc (34) (condition: tallest jar and cover has a glued repair to finial, oval trinket box and cover has a glued repair to the base, swan floral ornament is a second and has losses to flowers, small jar and cover with the main lot number has a large glued repair to the jar, nibbles to posy ornament)
A GROUP OF CERAMICS, METALWARES AND PICTURES comprising twenty one pieces of Willow pattern tea/dinnerwares by makers including Booths, Ridgway and Alfred Meakin, three Royal Doulton 'Madras' tea plates, a copper helmet shaped coal scuttle and planter, pictures to include George Buckle 'Across Lake Garda' framed watercolour, frame size 71cm x 59cm, a signed limited edition print of partridges and two watercolours of Leicester, a set of kitchen scales with weights (quantity) (Condition:- some chips to ceramics, coal scuttle has significant dent to base, generally dust, tarnish etc)
DECORATIVE CERAMICS, to include a Bretby jardinière, height approximately 32cm, a Greek dish dedicated to Alexander The Great, registration mark verso (chip to rim), Devonware Fieldings jardinière with polychrome decoration, Bretby vase and planter, Charlotte Rhead for Crown Ducal vase, signed to base, Capodimonte sculptures with some damage, Royal Doulton Lord Nelson character jug D6336, miniature Doulton and Sandland character jugs, collectors plates, etc (Qty + loose)
THREE BOXES AND LOOSE CERAMICS, GLASSWARES, ETC, to include an Aynsley Portlandware clock, novelty salt and pepper pots in the forms of pigs and cats, modern ceramic vases, candle holders, planter and bread bin, late 20th Century glass lampshade, china mugs, ten Johnson Brothers 'Eternal Beau' tea plates , angel and other figurines, etc (sd) (three boxes and loose)

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