1936-1938
Arabic composition book of O.A. Keyte of the C.M.S. Boys' School, Rodah Island, Cairo

1938-1940
Staff prayer book of O.A. Keyte
Language: Arabic

1939
Arabic dictation book of O.A. Keyte

1948-1949
School menu book of O.A. Gray from Rodah Island?

1950
Letter from R.W. Gray to Kassy Geberezadik informing him that his son has run away from school

1944 Jan 1
Note on the Bishop Bullen Memorial Chapel

1954
Some exercises in English by R.W. Gray for the Nugent School, Loka

1954-1990 [predominantly 1954-1978]
Official papers including correspondence between the Grays, C.M.S. officials and Bishop Oliver Allison concerning evacuation plans, the establishment of Friday as the weekly holiday, and the problems of the Church in the Sudan generally

1955
History notes by O.A. Gray for Form II of the Nugent School

1955-1958
Nugent School dispensary books

1955-1960
Nugent School exam papers for Maths, English and Scripture

1956-1958
O.A. Gray's daily accounts books:

1959-1965
Correspondence of R.W. Gray, mainly with the C.M.S. Education Secretary, Christopher Cook, concerning general C.M.S. matters including teaching Arabic and the provision of Arabic Bibles, furniture and repairs, the 1960 conference, the preservation of the Christian Sunday, the writing of a Prayer Book in Bari, and the expulsion of missionaries

1959
Essay competition entries from pupils at the Nugent School, Loka

1959
Form I Mathematics notes, Nugent School, Loka

1959 May
Letters from the Grays and the Mission Builder concerning the Grays' move from Loka

1954
English syllabus and record of work of the Girls' Central School, Yei

1957-1961
Official papers of the Girls' Central School, Yei, including lists of catechumens, exam results, requisitions for books and materials, test papers, school reports, and class lists

1958-1963
Further official papers of the Girls' Central School, Yei, including staff records, records concerning the transport of pupils, repairs, staff lists, and administrative problems caused by illness

1959
Notes on staff duties and work arrangements for the Girls' Central School, Yei

1959, 1962-1963
Annual reports for the Girls' Central School, Yei:

1960
Official papers of the Girls' Central School, Yei, concerning administrative matters: staff problems, fees, timetables, discipline, finances, holidays, the dispensary, religious instruction and school equipment

1960
Papers concerning Bishop Gwynne College: the Principal's Report and the college newsletter for Sep 1960

1960, 1962-1963
Girls' Central School Yei Class I attendance registers:

1960-1963
Four school diaries:

1960-1963
O.A. Gray's mark books (the Girls' Central School, Yei?)

1961
Further official papers of the Girls' Central School, Yei, concerning administrative matters: diet, school uniform, re-entry visas for missionaries, staff, exam results, Arabic teaching, fees, financial notes, the water supply, transport, student agitation owing to the uncertainty of the future and the reacceptance or dismissal of the ringleaders, government statistics, orders for Arabic books, holiday arrangements, equipment and furniture, and timetables

1961 Jul 14
Minutes of the Scripture Syllabus Committee

1961-1964
Correspondence between the Grays, the C.M.S. Secretary and the Province Education Officer concerning education matters, including leases for mission stations, Friday being made the official weekly holiday, application for re-entry visas, and the Sudanisation of Yei

1962
O.A. Gray's school notebook (the Girls' Central School, Yei?)

1962-1963
Class II registration book (the Girls' Central School, Yei?)

1962-1964
Further official papers of the Girls' Central School, Yei, including government educational statistics, papers concerning building repairs, and records of class work

1962-1964
Three books of receipts:

c1963
Statement to the Africa Committee on the situation in the southern Sudan

n.d.
Books of maths exercises and test papers

1976, 1979
Accounts of the Sudan Church Association

1941-1963
Various loose papers extracted from all of the notebooks: notes on school social work, religious meditations and prayers, notes on games, recipes for school meals, history lessons, exams and tests, health education, class lists, etc.

1949 Apr 4
Letter from the director of Education to Parry concerning scouting activities

1962-1963
Papers concerning R.W. Gray's scouting activities: correspondence with the Boy Scouts World Bureau and the Boy Scouts Association International Secretary concerning training for Scout leaders on a UNESCO travel grant

1954-1965
Circular letters from the Grays with news of the progress of mission education against the background of Sudanisation

1960-1986
Circular letters from the C.M.S. missionaries of the Sudan

1966-1983
Nuba Mountains Prayer Fellowship newsletters

1955-1980 [predominantly 1955-1980]
Letters to the Grays from British friends and colleagues, including John Parry and Bishop Oliver Allison, concerning personal news, C.M.S. education matters including the need to find new jobs owing to Sudanisation, and the condition of the southern Sudan

1957-1972
Letters to the Grays from Sudanese pupils and teachers with personal news, especially relating to the Civil War

1958-1961
Letters from the Grays to R.W. Gray's mother and sister with personal news and news of school life, C.M.S. colleagues and friends, the changes occuring because of Sudanisation, recurrent difficulties in obtaining re-entry visas, and their move from Loka to Yei

1962
Letters from the Grays to R.W. Gray's sister during leave in England, and from the Sudan containing personal and some school news

1937
R.W. Gray's religious notebook: prayers, meditations, etc.

1948-1956
R.W. Gray's notebooks containing religious material, passages in Bari(?), Scouting notes, etc.

1954-1962
Financial statements and accounts of the Grays: invoices, credit notes, etc.

1953
List of personal property belonging to the Grays when they left Egypt

1953-1954
Account of the Grays' journey to the Sudan

1955
R.W. Gray's scout diary

1955, 1956
O.A. Gray's diaries:

1978
Diary of a trip made by the Grays to Kenya and the Sudan

1953-1962 [predominantly 1960-1962]
Miscellaneous loose notes from the diaries: Bible readings, prayers, class lists, baptism and confirmation lists, diary pages and other miscellaneous notes, including undated pages of a diary kept at Rodah Island C.M.S. Boys' School Cairo, and a report on conditions in Egypt regarding health (860/23/1-5)

1957-1960
Articles on health and medicine in the Sudan collected by O.A. Gray for a lecture on the subject

1932
Scenes of Uganda:

1938
The Grays and friends in Cyprus

[c1938-1952]
Individual photographs of the Grays' colleagues and friends in Egypt (mostly no captions)

[c1938-1952]
Group photographs of colleagues and friends in Egypt (mostly no captions)

[c1938-1952]
Groups of Egyptian children playing sport, on school trips, and engaged in other activities

[c1938-1952]
Egyptian children climbing pyramids and visits to other archaeological sites in the desert

[c1938-1952]
Group photographs of Egyptian children

[c1938-1952]
Photographs of teaching in Egypt

[c1938-1952]
Egyptian buildings:

[c1938-1952]
Scenery of Egypt

1952
Arab Refugee Camp, Gaza: games and food distribution

[c1954-1959]
Photographs of the Nugent School, Loka:

[c1954-1959]
Photographs of the Village Teacher Training Centre, Yei:

[c1960-1964]
Photographs of the Girls' Central School, Yei:

1960
Photographs from the Girls' Central School Yei mounted on a board

[c1954-1964]
Miscellaneous photographs from the southern Sudan

[n.d.]
Miscellaneous holiday photographs unconnected with the Sudan

[c1976]
C.M.S. photo pack on the Sudan:

1946
Photographs of the Rodah Island Boys' School in Cairo, including the school (840/4/1), teaching (840/4/2-3,6-7,10-20,24-31), games and scouting activities (840/4/4-5,8-9, 21-23), and the teaching staff (840/4/32-33)

[n.d.]
Various negatives for which no positives have been made: miscellaneous scenes of schoolchildren, and of the Grays with friends and colleagues

1950
North-Eastern Sudan
scale:   1mm to 2km
Size: 46 x 61 cm

1951
Southern Sudan
scale:   1mm to 2km
Size: 67 x 45 cm

1953
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, showing the administrative districts
scale:   4cm to 160km
Size: 50 x 58 cm

1950-1991
Various notes, ephemera, appeal leaflets etc., including:

A 25-piastre note
Digitised material for 25-piastre note - SAD.861/13/42

Thumb harp (Lekembe)
Size: 126 x 186mm

Decorated cane tray
Size: 160 x 165mm

Cane model of baby's bonnet
Size: 120 x 100mm

Small cane bowl
Size: 140 x 130mm

Small cane bowl
Size: 170 x 120mm

Small cane bowl
Size: 155 x 140mm

Sisal netting
Size: 820mm

Small open cane bag
Size: 150 x 90mm

Two grass prayer mats
Size: 270 x 220mm

Grass bag with straps
Size: 300 x 250mm

Grass bag with straps
Size: 210 x 170mm

Grass bookmark
Size: 190 x 55mm

Two Scout badges
Size: 50 x 60mm

Badge of the Girls' Central School, Yei
Size: 55 x 55mm

Handmade belt
Size: 1490 x 60mm

Purse
Size: 140 x 180mm

Purse
Size: 330 x 245mm

Satchel for books
Size: 640 x 415mm

Teapot, made in southern Sudan
Size: 135 x 180mm

Gourd drinking bowl
Size: 145 x 130mm

Grass shopping basket
Size: 440 x 310mm

Large embroidered tablecloth, black with gold stitching
Size: 1500 x 1500mm

1955-1979
Cuttings concerning a violent crime in which O.A. Gray cared for the wounded, education in the southern Sudan, the expulsion of missionaries in 1964, the Civil War, the protest at General Abbud's visit to Britain, the fall of Abbud, and the Queen's visit to the Sudan

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


Books for Africa (Christian Literature Council, London 1962)
Brown, Rev. D., Morning prayer, collects, the Holy Communion (in colloquial Arabic) (Juba)
Carden, John, Lest we grow hard (London, 1962)
Church Missionary Society: Changing Africa and facts that make us think)
Church Missionary Society: The Church Missionary Society. A manual outlining its history, organization and commitments (London, 1961)
Church Missionary Society: C.M.S. at work in the Sudan (London)
Church Missionary Society: C.M.S. Nugent School Magazine 1952, Loka (Juba, 1952)
Church Missionary Society: In Brief 76/36, 78/32 (C.M.S. Information Service, 1976, 1978)
Church Missionary Society: Sharing with the Sudan (London)
Church Missionary Society: The southern Sudan then and now. Adventures of Faith series no.12 (London)
Elder, E.E.: Arabic grammar inductive method (American University at Cairo, 1937)
Equatoria Daily News Bulletin Press issue nos.1002- 1004, 1284-1286, 1430 (Juba, 1962-63)
1001 facts about the Sudan as on 1-1-52 (Public Relations Office, Khartoum, 1952)
Future v.9 no.1; v.10 no.2; v.9 nos.3-4; v.10 no.4; v.11 no.1 (Juba, 1958-60)
Kapliwatzky, Jochanan: Arabic language and grammar part 3 (Jerusalem, 1953)
Kuku and the boy, first Arabic reader
Light. A Christian magazine for the Sudan v.1 no.6; Nov 1958; v.5 no.6; (Dec-Jan 1959)
Message. News of the Arabic Literature Mission no.298 (1969)
News bulletin of the Near East Christian Council, (Feb 1957, Apr 1958, Summer 1958, Advent 1959)
News bulletin, 25 Sep 1956 (Khartoum)
Overseas Calling nos.7, 9 (London 1964, 1965)
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London series A containing papers of a mathematical or physical character v.188 (London, 1896)
Pictorial education v.32 nos.9-12; v.33 nos.1-3,5-9 (1958-59)
Price, Ena: Those who say YES (London, 1965)
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Todinet na kagalak [catechism in Bari] (Cairo, 1940)
Southern Sudan mail bag nos.13,17; v.2 nos.1,3,4,7 (1950-53, 1955)
Spiro, Socrates, An English-Arabic vocabulary of the modern and colloquial Arabic of Egypt (Cairo and London, 1897)
Sterling, R., A grammar of the Arabic language (London, 1904)
Stuart, Mary, Land of promise. A story of the church in Uganda (London, 1958)
Sudan Almanac 1959 (Khartoum, 1959)
Sudan weekly news 16 Oct 1954)
The Sudan Diocesan Review v.6-7 nos.17-18; v.8 nos.22-23; v.9 no.24; v.11 nos.30-32; v.12 nos.33,35; v.13 no.38; v.15-24 nos.42-57, 59-60, 63, 65-69 (1953-73)
Sudan Church Review v.24-28 nos. 71-72, 74-79 (1974-79)
Sudan Church Review Centenary issue v.30 no.3 (1990)
Sudan Church Association: Focus on Sudan)
Sudan Church Association: Notes and comments 1975-80, 1991)
Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the disturbances in the southern Sudan during August 1955 (Khartoum, 1956)
Sudan, Ministry of Education, Southern Provinces: Future v.9 no.1, Apr 1958 (Juba)
Thatcher, G.W., Arabic grammar of the written language (third edition: Heidelberg, 1927)
Thatcher, G.W., Key to the Arabic grammar of the written language (fifth edition: London, 1955)
Wittenbach, H.A., Missionaries are our business C.M.S. popular report no.2 (London, 1963)
Yes, Church Missionary Society magazine (Feb-Mar 1992)