1916 Dec 27 - 1922 Oct 27
Papers relating to M.S. Lush's appointment as Secretary to the Legation in Addis Ababa, his later transfer to a permanent position with the Sudan Political Service, resignation from the Regular Army and Egyptian Army and appointment to the Reserve of Officers, including telegram from Buckingham Palace requesting M.S. Lush's attendance at an investiture ceremony (SAD.873/10/2-3); D. Sandford and W. Thesiger, H.M. Minister in Addis Ababa recommending the job of Secretary to the Legation (SAD.873/10/5-8); letter of appointment with terms of service, from M.J. Wheatley, Private Secretary to the Governor-General (SAD.873/10/9); J.H. Dodds, forwarding a list of requirements for Addis Ababa (SAD.873/10/12-14); letters concerning arrangements for M.S. Lush's passage and shipment of personal effects to Abyssinia; A.W. Liddendale re arrangements for the delivery of a machine gun to the Regent of Abyssinia (SAD.873/10/24). Enclosures :

[1919] Jul 6 - 1922 May 1
Personal correspondence to and from M.S. Lush in Lille and later Abyssinia, chiefly from former army colleagues, friends and family, with some from colleagues at H.M. Legation in Addis Ababa. Most letters contain personal news of experiences since the end of the war and include John C. Jacques re life at Government House, Calcutta (SAD.873/11/30-32,60-61); Miss M. Read re life in Lahore (SAD.873/11/50-53,68-71); A.W. Bentinck re the purchase of ponies in Abyssinia (SAD.873/11/76-77); ‘Gordon' re impressions of post-war France (SAD.873/11/82-84); Alexander Paton re experiences with the N.W. Frontier Force in India (SAD.873/11/86-91); W.G. Walters-Symms re his life with the R.A. in the Punjab (SAD.873/11/106); J. Hugh Dodds, British Chargé d'Affaires, from Djibuti re the arms traffic situation there (SAD.873/11/118- 119); Dr. N.D. Sharp at Addis Ababa with news of Abyssinia, including the reported escape of Lij Yasu (SAD.873/11/122-123); J.H. Dodds from Cairo re his views on Zionism (SAD.873/11/124); M.S. Lush from Addis Ababa to his mother re the summer race meeting (SAD.873/11/131-135); N.D. Sharp re the publication of his articles in the Westminster Gazette on the subject of slavery (SAD.873/11/144)

1920 - 1921
Papers relating to M.S. Lush's military career including brevet of the rank of Bimbashi, 1920 and letter of resignation of commission in the Regular Army, with record of service, 1921

1924- 1935
Summary of articles on Ethiopia in the Near East

1930
Account by M.S. Lush of the coronation of Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa (copied from a letter home)

1932
Report by M.S. Lush entitled “Abyssinia 1932”

1936 Apr 19 - May 1
Copies of cables between Sir Sidney Barton, H.M. Minister in Addis Ababa and Anthony Eden, S/S for Foreign Affairs, concerning the worsening situation in Ethiopia and the Emperor's requests for assistance from Britain

1943 Jan 9
Copy of the New Times and Ethiopia News

1954
Text of broadcast by M.S. Lush for the BBC on “British administration in Ethiopia”, with covering letters

1960- 1975
Press cuttings relating to events in Ethiopia:

1962 Mar 16
Order of service in memory of Her Imperial Majesty Itegue Menen of Ethiopia, held in Westminster Abbey

1965
Information booklet on points of interest viewed from internal air journeys on a state visit to Ethiopia by the Duke of Edinburgh

1966- 1972
Text of lectures given by M.S. Lush in retirement on “The historical development of Ethiopia”

[c. 1967]
Article by Stephen Bell on the British war cemetery at Senafe in Ethiopia, containing graves of British soldiers who died during the expedition to Magdala 1867-1868

1972- 1980
Correspondence relating to M.S. Lush's service in Abyssinia including copy letter to Yseault de Coppet, widow of Meurice de Coppet, the former Minister of France in Addis Ababa (1919- 1922), recalling the happy years they spent there, with replies (SAD.873/14/37-43); M.S. Lush to L.H. Cramer enclosing a note on the Imperial Club Addis Ababa, 1920-1922 (SAD.873/14/44-45); M.S. Lush to the Head of Chancery at the British Embassy, Addis Ababa concerning the service of Philip Constantine Zaphiro and the origins of the eucalyptus trees in Addis Ababa, with reply (SAD.873/14/46-50)

1972 Jul 22
Special report from The Times on Ethiopia

1973 Feb 23
Copy of The Ethiopian Herald including a report on Princess Anne's visit to the country

1974
Summary of British and international press coverage of the Ethiopian coup

1974- 1975
Short accounts by Leslie H. Cramer and M.S. Lush of the history of the Imperial Racing Club, Addis Ababa, with covering letters from Mrs. C. Sandford and Cramer to M.S. Lush

1975 Mar
Confidential report on the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia

1975 Oct 14
Invitation to the memorial service and presentation of Garter Banner for the late Emperor Haile Selassie I at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, with related press cutting

1976 Jan 30 - Apr 27
Papers relating to the imprisonment of members of the Royal Family in Ethiopia including a confidential memorandum by Pamela Finsaas, correspondence between James Callaghan, Dame Lucy Sutherland, Sir Christopher Cox, Stephen Sandford and M.S. Lush, and copy of Colin Legum's article from The Observer

1976 May 2 - 12
Copy letter from the Countess Di Lupis to Dame Lucy Sutherland concerning her efforts to raise support in Sweden for the imprisoned princesses, with copy letter sent by the present and former principals of Newnham College, Cambridge and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford to Brigadier General Teferi Benti, Chairman of the Provisional Military Government in Addis Ababa appealing for the release of the princesses

1976 Oct 15
Confidential report by H.R. Weber on “Revolutionary Ethiopia” based on impressions from a stay in Addis Ababa, 30 Sep to 12 Oct 1976

1978 Jan 9
Copy of a long and detailed letter from Dick Sandford to M.S. Lush on the situation in Ethiopia, with covering letter from A.G. Munro of the F.C.O. to M.S. Lush

[n.d.]
Article by B. Tsehai on “Anglo-Ethiopian relations 1891-1897: Menelik expands and consolidates his empire and Britain accepts the realities on the Horn of Africa”, based on his unpublished PhD thesis “Anglo-Ethiopian Relations 1934-1942” (University of Bristol, 1980)

[1980]
Report from The Times of 4 Nov 1955 concerning celebrations in Addis Ababa for the Emperor's silver jubilee coronation anniversary

1982 Mar 18
Text of the John Hack Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Befekadu Tsehai at the Africa Centre, London on the history of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society, with note of tribute to John Hack

“Reflections on the future of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society”, a paper by A. Raven Roberts

Ethiopian Tourist Organisation information on Addis Ababa, its history, buildings and tourist attractions

1916 May 28 - 1983 Nov 9
Miscellaneous personal correspondence relating to the Sudan including Alex Boyd from Omdurman to Ruscombe Sandford (brother of Dan Sandford) concerning progress of work on his motor boat and the success against `Ali Dinar at El Fasher (SAD.874/1/1); Marjorie Crawford (wife of Bill Crawford) to Mrs. Lush re the Atbara bridge incident which involved both their husbands (SAD.874/1/2-3); Douglas Newbold and Ned Mayall to Mrs. Lush re prospects for the return of wives to the Sudan (SAD.874/1/4-5); M.S. Lush to the Archbishop of Canterbury recommending Archdeacon Johnston as bishop for the new Diocese of Egypt, with reply (SAD.874/1/6-7); letters from Sudanese servants (SAD.874/1/8-12); O. El Hadari, Sudanese Ambassador in Karachi re the death of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (SAD.874/1/13); Richard Hill with thoughts on C.A. Willis (SAD.874/1/15-16); Philip Ingleson to Mabel Purves and M.S. Lush concerning the sale of a Ford motor car purported to have belonged to the Governor of Northern Province (SAD.874/1/17-18); Brigadier-General J.D. Lunt re his projected book on overseas local military forces maintained by the Crown colonies (SAD.874/1/20-21); John Winder with memories of service in Upper Nile Province (SAD.874/1/23-24)

Humorous verse:

1927 Jan 3
Account by Arnold Heim, a German aviator, of a visit to Abwong in the company of the District Commissioner, P. Coriat, with covering letter from M.S. Lush

1930
Papers relating to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty negotiations of 1930 including copy extract from an unknown book on the negotiations; copy telegram to Sir J. Maffey, Governor-General, from the F.O., setting out the wording of the Sudan article, with reply reiterating the opposition of the Sudan Government to the participation of Egypt in the administration of the Sudan

1930 May 8
Copy telegram from the F.O. to Mr. Hoare, Cairo concerning the breakdown in Anglo-Egyptian Treaty negotiations in London

1931 Mar - Jun and 1939 May
Notes of maximum and minimum temperatures at Dueim, 1931 and Ed Damer, 1939

1932 Aug 12
Photograph of habub over Khartoum, from The Times

1936
Papers relating to the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty negotiations including record of a meeting between Sir Stewart Symes, Governor-General and the Egyptian delegation at Alexandria on 29 Jul 1936, with covering telegram from Miles Lampson, High Commissioner, to the F.O.; press cuttings re the outcome of the negotiations

1936
Articles by Marjery Perham from The Times on the Sudan, entitled “I. From Khartoum to Equatoria” and “II. Planning for native prosperity”

[c. 1938]
Letter to Mr. Ferguson from El Haj Muhammad Ahmad, Book-keeper Kitiab, requesting a transfer to another station after an assault on his wife

1939 Jun 17
Memorandum from M.S. Lush, Governor Northern Province, to the Civil Secretary suggesting the substitution of the title “The Province of the Nile” for Northern Province

1939
Account by M.S. Lush of his return trip to the Sudan on the first convoy to leave Britain after the outbreak of war, with letter of 10 Sep 1939 to his mother describing life on board ship

1940 Sep 8
Form of prayer preached at the Church of St Philip the Deacon, Atbara

1940 Nov - Dec
Cuttings from a number of newspapers including the Evening Standard, and the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post on operations against the Italians in Kassala and Somaliland

1940 Nov 7
“Who holds Khartoum holds one of the keys to Egypt”, by J. Wentworth Day from the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post

1941 Oct 25
Memorandum from A.B.B. Howell, Controller Sudan Government London Office, concerning exit permits for wives and families of Sudan Government officials to proceed to the Sudan

1942 Jun
Lecture by G.W. Titherington entitled “The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”, with letters to Maj. and Mrs. Titherington from Ellen and Alf Falke-Johnson concerning Christmas at Merowe, Dec 1944 - Jan 1945

1943
Photograph of a portrait of Bishop Gwynne in clerical robes, with programme for the celebrations on his 80th birthday

1947
Inventory and statement of receipts and payments for furniture and household effects of M.S. Lush

[post 1950]
Note of H.A. MacMichael's views on Gordon, the Church Saloon and the inscription on Douglas Newbold's memorial tablet in Khartoum Cathedral

1960 May 14
Programme for the unveiling of the Gordon statue at Gordon Boys' School

1966- 1967
Lecture by M.S. Lush to V.S.O. recruits on life in the Sudan

1973 Dec 6 - 1988 Nov 7
Personal correspondence relating to the Sudan including between M.S. Lush and L.E. Forbes re a visit to the Sudan Archive, with notes on papers consulted there (SAD.874/5/1,3-7); J.F.E.Bloss re his photographic collection (SAD.874/5/9); P.P. Howell re progress with his history of the Sudan Political Service (SAD.874/5/16-19); John Barclay Jacobs, enclosing a photograph of British servicemen at HQ Central Madagascar, May 1943 (SAD.874/5/32-33); Teddy Thompson, M.S. Lush and John Clayton re the career of St George Charles Henry, former Adjutant General of the Egyptian Army (SAD.874/5/39-43); L.E. Forbes re Sudanese newspapers, with reply (SAD.874/5/48-49); Hugh Malet re reminiscences of General Gordon (SAD.874/5/55)

1975 Oct 10
Part copy of speech by Martin Parr in praise of Sir Angus Gillan
(For a complete copy, see SAD.1053/6/77-79.)

1976 May 19
Obituary of Mohammed Aboudi, former sufragi to Sir Miles Lampson in Cairo and later for the Stirling brothers

1978 Oct 31 - 1990 Feb 9
Correspondence relating to the S.D.F. including letters from the Imperial War Museum and the Oxford Development Records Project concerning their programme to tape reminiscences of officers and N.C.O.s who served with the British forces in Africa and news from P.A.R. Lindsay of contacts with Sudanese

1981
Replies by M.S. Lush to a questionnaire from Dr. Francis Deng covering relations between British and Sudanese, with related letters to M.S. Lush from Amir El Sawi, Sudanese Ambassador to Britain and Francis Deng, Sudanese Ambassador to Canada, and copy replies. The answers were later incorporated in Bonds of silk:the human factor in the British administration of the Sudan by F.M. Deng and M.W. Daly (Michigan State University, 1989)

1984
Articles by Isabel Winder, with covering letter to M.S. Lush:

1986 Mar 20 - Apr 17
Papers relating to the Sudan Forest Project and SOS Sahel International, in particular correspondence concerning a proposed afforestation scheme in Nile Province, sponsored by the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

1986 Mar 24
Sudan Defence Force Dinner Club special newsletter concerning the decision of Brig. Bobby Popham to resign as President and the publication of Tales vol II

[c. 1986]
Copy press report on “Sudan's war of secession”

1987 Jan 4
Circular letter from “Pervaneh”, a British girl teaching in the Sudan, to her sponsors re her life and work at El Hosh Higher Secondary School for Girls in Gezira Province

1988 May 12
Paper delivered by L.E. Forbes at the SOAS Workshop on Photographs in African History, entitled “African photographic resources in the Sudan Archive of the University of Durham”

1988
Draft obituary by M.S. Lush of C.E. Fouracres, formerly of the Sudan Political Service (died 9 Aug 1988)

n.d.
Postcard showing a bird's eye view of the Suez Canal, World War I

1934 Nov 10 - 1938 Jul 22
Correspondence relating to M.S. Lush's service as Sudan Agent in Cairo, including J.A. Gillan informing M.S. Lush of his appointment (SAD.874/8/3); M.S. Lush to J.A. de C. Hamilton, his predecessor as Sudan Agent, re arrangements for housing in Cairo (SAD.874/8/4) and to Gillan, accepting the appointment (SAD.874/8/5); G.S. Symes, Governor-General re the progress of treaty negotiations in London (SAD.874/8/7) and in appreciation of M.S. Lush's role in Cairo (SAD.874/8/8); Andrew Holden and the committee of the Anglo-American Hospital in Cairo re M.S. Lush's resignation as chairman (SAD.874/8/9-11); farewell telegram from Lampson, the British Ambassador, to M.S. Lush (SAD.874/8/12) with letter of thanks in reply (SAD.874/8/13)

1935 Apr - 1936 Aug
Loose leaf appointments diary

[c. 1936 - 1937]
Hospitality book recording social engagements in Cairo. Accounts with shops in Cairo are listed at the back of the book, while lists of cinemas and French lessons were added in 1948

1938 Apr
Press reports on the opening and consecration of All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo:

[c. 1946]
Obituary of Arthur F. Yencken, former Head of Chancery, H.M. Embassy Cairo, 1936

1947- 1955
Papers relating to the El Alamein service held on the anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in October each year:

1954 Oct 24
Order of ceremony for the unveiling of the Alamein memorial by Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

1957- 1988
Papers relating to the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Cairo including a copy of a cutting from The Times of 7 Mar 1957 concerning the unveiling of the Eighth Army memorial (SAD.874/10/30); cutting from The Times concerning plans to demolish the cathedral and erect a new cathedral in another part of the city (SAD.874/10/31); letters concerning the future of the ‘Montgomery' window after its removal from the old cathedral (SAD.874/10/32-33); and invitation to M.S. Lush to the consecration of the new cathedral, with copy reply and account of the ceremony, 1988 (SAD.874/10/34- 37)

Plan of All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo and subsidiary buildings

1978 Jul
Correspondence relating to the future of the Eighth Army memorial window which was removed from Cairo Cathedral before demolition of the building. As its future in the new cathedral was uncertain, M.S. Lush investigated the possibility of moving the window to a permanent site in the U.K.

1943 Mar 9 - Sep 12
Personal correspondence including M.S. Lush to Douglas Newbold, Civil Secretary Khartoum, re his work as Chief Civil Affairs Officer, B.M.A., the establishment of provincial government, food shortages, the Italian colonisation scheme and the role of the S.D.F. (SAD.874/11/1-5); A.R. Ferrier re the disposal of M.S. Lush's goods left in Khartoum (SAD.874/11/6); and Ian Carr to Mrs. Lush re the need for M.S. Lush to have a complete rest after the strain of his work in Tripolitania (SAD.874/11/8-9)

1984 Feb 4
Account by Ian Carr (P.A. to M.S. Lush in Tripolitania 1943-1944) of a visit to Tripoli by King George VI in 1943

[n.d.]
Article on Jeremy Bentham's (1748-1832) constitution for Tripoli, 1823

1946 Sep 10
Article entitled “Taxation of the profits of the oil industry: the principle of depletion”

1951 Jul
Text of lecture on “The ABC of the petroleum industry”

1951 Oct
Notes on the history and organisation of the Royal Dutch Shell Group

1952 Feb 22
Note on the principle of 50/50 sharing of profits from the oil industry

1952 Mar 17 - 1954 Oct 21
Press cuttings relating to Libya:

1952 Sep 1
Note on the depletion allowance for income tax purposes

1952
Translation of the Libyan national anthem by M.S. Lush

1953 Mar 13
Memorandum of comment on foreign exchange with relation to the oil industry

1954 Dec 31
Memorandum by the Mining Department on the boundary between Tripolitania and the Fezzan

[c. 1954]
Paper by J.B. Kay entitled “Some considerations governing the winning of oil”

1955 Mar 29
Memorandum of agreement between the federal and provincial governments concerning the Petroleum Law of 1955

1955 May 16
Letter from M.S. Lush to his son Julian setting out the constitutional problem facing the Libyan Government and the oil companies operating in Libya

1955 Sep 22 - Oct 5
Letter of greetings from Saddigh Muntasser, Libyan Ambassador to the U.S.A., to M.S. Lush, with reply

1955 Oct 26 - Dec 30
Correspondence between M.S. Lush and staff of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company concerning the end of his contract in Libya, arrangements for the handover to his successor and his appointment to Pakistan

[c. 1955]
Inventory of household goods in Anglo-Saxon house, property of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and M.S. Lush

1956 Mar 19
Notes on Libyan conditions for expatriate employees

1956 Apr 8, 1959 Feb 1
Letters home to family from M.S. Lush, giving his first impressions of Karachi on his arrival as Managing Director and describing in some detail for his wife the house which he plans to let (SAD.875/1/1-4) and, nearing the end of his service, concerning the visit of Prince Philip to Pakistan, visitors expected in the next few weeks and plans for the return journey to the U.K. (SAD.875/1/8)

1956 May 17 - 1958 Sep 30
Semi-official papers relating to M.S. Lush's service as Managing Director, Pakistan Shell Oil Co. Ltd., consisting mainly of correspondence concerning payment and insurance, arrangements for the journey out to Pakistan and the shipment of personal and household effects, the purchase of a beach hut and boat, presentation of a challenge cup to the local horseshow, arrangements for Shell directors to entertain the Prime Minister of Pakistan in London in 1957, leave dates, appointment of new staff, support for the employment of Cecil Greatorex, restrictions on entertainment, handover to M.S. Lush's successor H.G. Llewellyn, arrangements for the return trip to the U.K. at the end of his service and monthly expense accounts

1957 Nov 15
Address of welcome to M.S. Lush fom the members of the Working Committee of the Employees' Association of Pakistan Shell Oil Co. Ltd., Chittagong

[1958?] Jun 2
List of those attending for cocktails to say “au revoir” before going on leave

1958- 1959
Telegrams to M.S. Lush from family members

1958- 1959
Press cuttings, Pakistan:

1959 Feb 10
Invitation to M.S. Lush and his wife to attend a dinner on the occasion of the visit by the Duke of Edinburgh, with musical programme and menu

1959 May 1 - 2
Press releases and cuttings from Dawn, Times of Karachi and Morning News concerning M.S. Lush's resignation as Managing Director of Pakistan Shell Oil Co., and his replacement by Mr. H.G. Llewellyn

1959 May 2
Farewell address to Mr. amd Mrs. Lush by members of the Shell Recreation Club

1959 May 2
Printed copy of farewell address to M.S. Lush by O.F. Moore Bocarro for the staff of Pakistan Shell Oil Co. Ltd.

[c. 1959]
Printed list of telephone numbers for the management of Pakistan Shell Oil Co. Ltd., Karachi

[n.d.]
Strike leaflet issued by the Pakistan Petroleum Workers Federation

1980
Text of interview between M.S. Lush and Dr. Douglas Johnson on behalf of the Oxford Dvelopment Records Project and the Imperial War Museum, with related correspondence. The interview covers M.S. Lush's family background and education, war service and subsequent career in Abyssinia and the Sudan

Obituaries (drafts and published) and other related papers such as letters of sympathy, orders of service, etc., for friends and former colleagues, many of whom had served with M.S. Lush in the Middle East and N. Africa:

Extract from the First World War memoirs of Capt. Lawrence Gameson, particularly relating to his friendship with M.S. Lush in Lille, France before his appointment to Addis Ababa

Memoirs of Charles Edward Francis Turner's service as Staff Captain (Q) at HQ British Troops in Egypt, 1935-1940 consisting chiefly of edited copies of letters home from Turner and his wife to his mother during 1935-1936 when he lived with his family in Cairo, and from Turner to his wife in Britain during war service in Cairo. Interspersed with the letters are reports, photographs and newspaper cuttings (mostly photocopies - see below).
Part 1: From Turner and his wife in Cairo, 4 Apr to 1 Aug describing his work, their social life and progress of the children. From Turner on board SS Zamalek describing visits to Baalbek, Antioch, Haifa, Acre, Cyprus, etc., 15-22 Aug 1935. From Turner and his wife in Cairo, 7 Sep 1935-25 Jan 1936
Part 2: Copy extracts from letters home from Turner in Cairo describing in some detail his work as Lt. Col. in charge of ‘Q' movements on Gen. Wavell's staff at GHQ Middle East, 5 May-28 Dec 1940 and of trips to Sudan, Palestine and Transjordan.
Enclosures:

1978 Nov
Memoirs of Gabs Kfouri, written in response to a request by M.S. Lush The memoirs cover Kfouri's education in England and his life in the Sudan where his father took over the Dairy, and comprise a series of anecdotes rather than a chronological account. Among the persons and subjects covered are his education at Malvern (SAD.875/7/3-7); memories of G.B. Crole (SAD.875/7/5-6); his return to the Sudan in 1924 (SAD.875/7/7-10); his first job in Khartoum (SAD.875/7/10- 11); his father as life president of the Syrian community (SAD.875/7/11); memories of Samuel Bey Atiyah, including the visit of Sudanese shaykhs to Britain for the victory celebrations in 1919 (SAD.875/7/11-23); Edward Atiyah (SAD.875/7/23-30); Michael Atiyah (SAD.875/7/31-32); the role of donkeys as a form of transport (SAD.875/7/32-41); native police (SAD.875/7/42); local newspapers (SAD.875/7/42-44); Sudanese opinions of District Commissioners, including T.F.G. Carless, G.F. Foley and T. Maclagan (SAD.875/7/46-50); the judicial system and the use of witch doctors (SAD.875/7/50-52); Jack Driberg and Douglas Newbold (SAD.875/7/52-56); H.A. MacMichael (SAD.875/7/58); anecdotes illustrating the Sudanese sense of humour (SAD.875/7/63-64); Fowles, Superintendent of Prisons and tales of prisoners and their crimes (SAD.875/7/65-74); Italian deserters (SAD.875/7/74-76); participation on Lady Symes' committee to organise a charity ball (SAD.875/7/77-79); the death of his wife (SAD.875/7/80); Bishop Gwynne (SAD.875/7/81-83); takeover of the dairy by Kfouri's father (SAD.875/7/84-87); waiving of tolls on Blue Nile bridge (SAD.875/7/87- 91); battles with the Department of Economics and Trade (SAD.875/7/91-94); Sudan Light and Power Co. (SAD.875/7/94); incidents of attempted corruption (SAD.875/7/95-96); Kfouri's father (SAD.875/7/97-99); George N. Morhig (SAD.875/7/99-100); Contomichalos (SAD.875/7/100-101); the telephone (SAD.875/7/101-104); motor transport (SAD.875/7/106-108); Douglas Newbold (SAD.875/7/110- 111); Prideaux, dentist (SAD.875/7/111-114); G.W. Grabham (SAD.875/7/114-116); Fay Vair, wife of Jock Vair (SAD.875/7/116-117); Hugh Boustead (SAD.875/7/121-122); Kfouri appointed meat supplier to British troops (SAD.875/7/124-129); Sudan during World War II (SAD.875/7/129-137); visits to England during the war (SAD.875/7/138-144); visit of Nasser to Khartoum (SAD.875/7/145); Sayyid Muhammad Khalifah al-Sharif and `Abd Allah Khalil, later P.M. of the Sudan (SAD.875/7/147- 150); strike at the dairy (SAD.875/7/152-155); memories of government officials, particularly Jack Hynd (SAD.875/7/157-158); Merryweather of the Atbara ginning factory (SAD.875/7/162-163). Attached:

[c. 1980]
Series of short memoirs of life in the Sudan by Marjorie Crawford, wife of Bill Crawford (Sudan Political Service 1922-1944), covering the creation of a garden at Makwar with the help of Lady Stokes (1927), Wad Medani (1927-1932), Southern Darfur (1933-1936) and Northern Province (1936-1944), with covering letter to M.S. Lush

1919
Contact prints of postcards of Aden:

1920
Contact prints of original photographs of Abyssinia:

1920- 1922
Album of photographs covering M.S. Lush's service as Secretary to H.M. Legation, Addis Ababa and a visit to Egypt in 1922. Contact prints from an original album still in the possession of the Lush family, reproduced in the same order and with original captions:

1924- 1930
Album of photographs covering M.S. Lush's service as A.D.C. Kassala Province (1922- 1926), A.D.C. Khartoum and Asst. Civil Secretary (1927-1929) and Private Secretary to the Governor-General (1929-1930). Contact prints from an original album still in the possession of the Lush family, reproduced in the same order and with original captions:

1929 Dec
Photographs of Sir J. E. Maffey, Governor-General, with Sir Percy Loraine, High Commissioner for Egypt, on an official visit to Khartoum (contact prints):

1929
Large group photograph of the Civil Secretariat, Khartoum. Front row, left to right: G.E.R. Sandars, C.E.J. Walkley, G.R.F. Bredin, J.D. Craig, H.A. MacMichael, R.K. Winter, M.S. Lush, A.R.C. Bolton and C.A.E. Lea. Standing behind Winter, C.S.M. Shea

1930 Jan 17
Large photograph of levée and garden party in the palace gardens on King's Day. At left-hand table, Sir John Maffey and Sayyid `Ali Mirghani (both with backs to camera), Bishop Gwynne and Sir Harold MacMichael

1930
Aerial view of Khartoum with Blue Nile bridge in the foreground and the White Nile bridge under construction in the distance; S.G.R.& S. dockyard on the right and the Palace in the distance (contact print)

1930 Mar 21
Photograph of the visit of the Governor-General Sir John Maffey to Korosko, en route Cairo- Khartoum (contact print)

1930 Mar 21 - 29
Photographs of Mrs. Lush in the Palace gardens and M.S. Lush on a garden bench (contact prints)

1930 Jan - Feb
Photographs of Sir John Maffey on tour to Dongola and Wadi Halfa, with M.S. Lush as Private Secretary to the Governor-General (contact prints):

1930
Portrait photograph of Sir John Maffey in dress uniform

1930 - 1931 and [n.d.]
Contact prints from original photographs of Kassala Province:

1930- 1932
Contact prints from original photographs of Egypt:

1930- 1933
Album of photographs covering M.S. Lush's service as Deputy Governor, White Nile Province (1930-1935), with visits to Aden in 1932, Abyssinia in 1930 and 1932 and Upper Nile Province 1932-1934. Contact prints from an original album still in the possession of the Lush family, arranged in the same order and with original captions:

1930- 1934
Contact prints from original photographs of Upper Nile Province:

1930- 1939
Contact prints from original photographs of Khartoum:

1930- 1939
Contact prints from original photographs of Northern Province, chiefly from M.S. Lush's service as Governor, 1938-1941:

1930- 1940
Prints from original photographs of Northern Province, chiefly from M.S. Lush's service as Governor, 1938-1941:

[n.d. c. 1930]
Photograph of All Saints' Cathedral Church, Khartoum

1931- 1937
Contact prints from original photographs of White Nile Province, chiefly from M.S. Lush's service as Deputy Governor:

1932
Large aerial view of Malakal, Upper Nile Province, with the Nile in the foreground and including the Deputy Governor's house

1936 Jun 21
Photograph of the Nile embankment on the road to Maadi, with boys bathing and sailing boats on the river

1938 Apr
Photographs of the consecration of All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo:

[n.d. 1938 or 1951]
Views of All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo:

[c. 1938]
Photographs of a visit by Bishop Ilarion of Babylon, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, to Cairo:

1943 Jan 26 - Apr 27
Photographs of Tripoli, mostly of the celebrations for the Jewish Festival of Deliverance. An account of the festivities, copied from a Jewish publication, is enclosed:

1943 May
Group of British servicemen at HQ Central Madagascar, enclosed in letter from John Barclay Jacobs to M.S. Lush

1943 Jul 2
Photograph of “The Lady of Carian” by Clifford Saber

1951 Mar 4
Photographs of the unveiling of the Eighth Army memorial window in All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo by F.M. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein:

1953- 1955
Album of photographs taken by Miss E. Bennett during her service at the English School, Addis Ababa. Contact prints from an original album still in the possession of the Lush family, and reproduced in the same order, with original captions:

1954 Nov - Dec
Photographs of the Petroleum Commission, Tripoli, in session. Members identified include C.J. Pyke, Pitt, Hardacre, Andrews, Anis Qasim, Hogenhuis, Lager, M.S. Lush, A.M. Skeet, Logan, Prince, Savill, Temple, Scott and Henshaw

1958- 1959
Photographs from M.S. Lush's service in Pakistan:

[c. 1976]
Sir Angus Gillan, former Civil Secretary, Sudan Government, taken in old age

[n.d.]
Prints from original photographs of Kordofan:

1936
Map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan with the boundary of Northern Province highlighted
Sudan Survey Department, 1930, revised at the W.O., 1936
scale:   1 in to 200 miles
Size: 8 x 10 ins

Imperial Airways map, Southampton-Alexandria, with flight diary

[1930?]
Framed watercolour by G.W. Titherington of a tukl in front of a jabal

[n.d.]
Pen and wash drawing of Rev. Canon B.J. Harper, O.B.E. by E.G. Sarsfield- Hall

[n.d.]
Watercolour of Camel Corps bugler (?)

1939
Imperial Airways timetables for journeys England, Egypt, Iraq, India, Hong Kong, Malaya, Australia, and for England, Egypt, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, West Africa, East Africa and South Africa, with press cutting on “Empire air mail plan held up”

1940
Copy of a remark by Reader Ballard, late H.M. Minister at Jiddah, on conversations with Ibn Sa`ud

1957
Anglican Diocese of Egypt and Libya, Egypt Church Association annual report and accounts for 1956...[and]...1957

1951
Anglican Diocese of Egypt and Libya, Diocesan Review Egypt, 31 no. 4 (Apr 1951), “Eighth Army window edition” (photocopy)

1916
Khartoum Racing Club, Third winter meeting 1915-1916: Friday, February 4th 1916 (Khartoum, 1916). Contains annotations

[n.d.]
Pakistan Shell Oil Company, Pakistan Shell Oil company's search for petroleum (Karachi)

1952; 1959
Sunday Ghibli, 221, 609 (Tripoli, 9 Mar 1952, 6 Sep 1959) No. 221 contains an article on M.S. Lush's return to Tripoli; no. 609 contains an article on his retirement from Pakistan

13 Sep 1946

The Egyptian Gazette, including article on the retirement of Bishop Gwynne

2 May 1959
Dawn [Karachi newspaper], including an article on M.S. Lush

Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue


Addistu Ethiopia v 1 no 5 (Asmara, 23 Jul 1955)
Ali Nur al-Din al-`Unayzi, Libiya al-Yawm [Libya Today] (Tripoli, 1956)
Aneiza, A.N., Libya today: its widening horizons, based upon an address by Dr. A.N. Aneizi, then Minister of Finance of U.K. of Libya before the Council of Islamic Affairs in New York, 27 Jul 1954 (Tripoli, revised Mar 1956)
Anglo-Ethiopian Parliamentary Group, Britain and Ethiopia (London)
The Anglo-Ethiopian Society, Proceedings (1981)
Beard, G.F., A history of the English School, Cairo (1916- 1956)
British Bulletin v 3, no 10 (Karachi, 14 Feb 1959)
British Military Administration, Tripolitania, Handbook on Tripolitania (Libya, Apr 1947)
British Society for International Understanding, The British Survey, 195 (London, Jun 1965): “The Sudan”
Campaigns of the conquest of Italian East Africa (HMSO, 1942)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, The war dead of the Commonwealth. The register of the names of those who fell in the 1939-1945 war and are buried in cemeteries in Ethiopia, the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas, the Somali Republic and Sudan (Maidenhead, 1974)
The conquest of North Africa (London, n.d.)
Daly, M.W., British administration and the Northern Sudan, 1917-1924. The Governor-Generalship of Sir Lee Stack in the Sudan (Istanbul, 1980)
EDU Advocate, 1, no 4 (Oct/Nov 1976)
The Egyptian Army (1883-1925) and Sudan Defence Force Dinner Club, Roll of members 1946
Ethiopian News, v 7 no 3 (Mar 1973)
Handbook to Tripolitania and the coast road to Cyrenaica (Tripoli, 1954)
J.H., Báráká (Herts, n.d.)
Kirk-Greene, A.H.M.: The Sudan Political Service: a preliminary profile
Lush, Maurice, A Life of Service. The memoirs of Maurice Lush, 1896-1990, edited by A.J.M. Lush (1992)
Muhammad Murabet, Tripolitana: the country and its people (United States Information Service, Tripoli)
Newbold, D.: The human side of culture (being the inaugural address delivered to the Sudan Cultural Centre) (1940)
Notes on Tripolitania [1943]
Pakistan Shell Oil Company, Pakistan Shell Oil Company's search for petroleum
Pankhurst, Richard, “A Cypriot icon in 19th century Gondar (Ethiopia)”, repr from Aksum-Thyateira, a festschrift for Archbishop Methodios of Thyateira and Great Britain
Pankhurst, Richard, “Decolonization of Ethiopia, 1940- 1955”, Horn of Africa (Oct-Dec 1978)
Setting up a world speed record, memento album celebrating the establishment of a new world air speed record near Tripoli, 1953
Stevenson, R.C., “Old Khartoum, 1821-1885”, Sudan Notes and Records, 47 (1966)
Sudan, Rahad irrigation project (Dec 1977)
Sudan almanac, 1939 (HMSO, 1939)
The Sudan British Directory 1940 [Khartoum, 1940]
The Sudan Diocesan Review, v 1 no 1 - v 6 no 15 (1949- 53) (bound copy)
Sudan Forest Project Newsletter, 1-3 (1986- 87)
Sudan Political Service 1899-1929 (Khartoum, 1930)
Sudan Studies, 2 & 4
Sudan British Pensioners' Association, Annual report 1989/90
Sudan Church Association, Notes and comments (Spring 1981, Autumn 1985)
Sudan Defence Force Dinner Club, Report and newsletter (1978/79, 1986)
Sudan Government, Quarterly list of the Sudan Government (1 Jan 1933, 1 Oct 1936, 1 Jan 1937, 1 Apr and 1 Oct 1939, 1 Jan 1940)
Sudan Government, Sudan Government list 15th September, 1952
Sudan Government British Pensioners' Association, List of members, (1963, 1970, Jan 1978, Apr 1983, Mar 1988, Mar 1990)
Sudanow, 25 (Nov-Dec 1976)
The Tripolitania Gazette, extraordinary issue (27 Sep 1952, containing the Organic Law of Tripolitania), 17 (1954)
The official Gazette of the United Kingdom of Libya, extraordinary no 7 (Oct 1951, containing the constitution of Libya), v 3 nos 7 and 10, v 4, nos 4 and 7, v 5, no 4 (3 copies in English, 1 in Arabic)
United Kingdom of Libya, Law no.30 of 1955 establishing the National Bank of Libya
Vademecum per il soldato Italiano in Egitto (Rome, 1940)