Container List

Sticker on outside says "August 1892" but entries are for May 1892. Expenses and notes, lists of luggage, "to-do" lists. Diary mostly empty. Two sketches: Chinde May 25, 1892; Arab dhow May 16, 1892. 9 May - 26 May 1892

Shipboard life; weather; German Anti-Slavery Committee; extensive negotiations with Portuguese and Wiese for trading concessions; setting up trading areas; other trading companies active in area 13 Nov. 1893 - 16 July 1984

Details of trip mentioned in previous diary: business dealings; trading posts; interactions with natives; local customs; description of landscapes; registration of Wiese's concessions; missionaries; agriculture; setting up new post; vocabulary list 29 Jan. - 27 March 1894

38 sketches by Warton. Typed transcript edited by Warton (with some additions by daughter). Wildlife; food; landscape; Wiese's dealings with natives; Portuguese rule 11 April - 27 April 1893

Shipboard life; concern about keeping correct time via watches brought from England; latitudes and longitudes kept; Durban Club; list of letters written and received; diary mostly empty 12 July - 1 Sept. 1895

Tete, Muchena, surveying for telegraph; finding of iron ore; possibility of gold mines; native uprising at Boroma 1 Sept. -14 Dec. 1895

Apptointed by Rhodes as BSA Co. Commissioner and Magistrate for NCE Co. in N. Zambesia under Forbes; 1st European to cross Cadzebesi (?) River (8 June 1896); Ft. Young; list of routes taken during trip 24 Dec. 1895 - 3 July 1896

Gold; quartz; description of Zulu chief M'Pesene's subjects, country, tribal life; telegraph stations; Loangweni; inter-tribal rivalries; problems with native workers; Wiese; Forbes and discussion of positions relative to BSA Co. and NCE Co. 4 July - 31 Oct. 1896

Handwritten list by E.A. Warton of photos by R.G. Warton, mostly landscapes: 6 8 3/8" x 6.5" (#39-44); 26 5 3/8" x 3.5" (#45-69); handwritten descriptions on inside flap match written list; most undated; 1 10" x 7.75" framed photo of Warton), no date 7 June 1894 - 4 Dec. 1897

NCE Co. blank memo paper; letters to Warton upon return; memo re mining concessions; extracts of letters to Wiese; letters to/from NCE; letter to RCI detailing involvement with NCE 11 Jan. 1894 - 11 Dec. 1919

Letter book for business correspondence with alphabetical index in front; mention of German Anti-Slavery committee (undated); letter re father's death (undated) 16 Sept. 1892 - 10 Sept. 1895

2 letters to sister re situation with M'Pesene (cf. b1, f8), native ceremonies, household plans for return to England; letter to father describing development of new country; 2 letters to Miss Warton re selling shares (from ? Illegible, undated) 17 Sept. 1895 - 31 July 1896

Handwritten list of reports/dates; report of pioneer expedition; articles on NCE; surveyor's report of expedition; various annual meeting reports; undated description by Warton of final trip to region and suggestions to generate revenue 7 Dec. 1896 - 22 Dec. 1923

3 legal documents (power of attorney for Warton; concessions between trading companies); two maps: grant from British S. Africa Co. to North Charterland Exploration Co.; hand- drawn map of telegraph stations from Beira to Inyamuriho 4 - 10 July 1895

Duplicate of map in Box 2, Folder 6 (grant from British South Africa Co. to North Charterland Exploration Co.) Undated

Handwritten extracts from books, read by E.A. Warton, connected with R.G. Warton's diaries Undated

Typewritten report on expedition to area west of Nysassaland: Zulu native customs, religion, history; NCE expeditions into area; geography; mineral deposits; ending slavery; projections for future of NCE in area. After Dec. 25, 1896

Newspaper clippings of Warton and NCE members,and NCE's activities. The African Review, July 27, 1895; reprint from The Truth, Jan. 2, 1929; The Sunday Telegraph, May 17, 1964; undated clipping re trade with Rhodesia; news photo of Warton, 1892., 1892-1964 Broken Series

Newspapers clippings dealing with R.G. Warton and North Charterland Exploration Co.; newspaper photo of R.G. Warton British Central Africa Gazette, July 1, 1896, 2 copies; The Citizen, Jan 30, 1897 two clippings; undated and unidentified clipping. 1896 - ?