1946 Jun 26 - 1958 Nov 3
Official papers relating to Gibbons' employment with the Sudan Plantations Syndicate and the Sudan Gezira Board, chiefly comprising correspondence between Gibbons and his employers on terms of service, changes in duties including supervision of the North West Extension in 1950, chairmanship of the committee to plan the future management of the Managil Scheme in 1953 and employment as an agricultural adviser from 1954, Sudanisation of posts, pension arrangements and post service benefits. Also included are A. Gaitskell's notes on a meeting of British staff in 1947 to discuss future staffing and gratuities on termination of contract (SAD.889/4/5-14); terms of service for British staff employed on fixed long term contract by the Board (SAD.889/4/25-27) and Gibbons' contract of service, 1954 (SAD.889/4/36-40)

1921 - 1950
Testimonials for Gibbons

1957 Mar 27 - 1958 Sep 16
Letters home from Gibbons to his wife Alison in England; mostly personal news of family and friends, social engagements, gardening, church services and arrivals and departures, with some discussion of work in the Gezira, staff changes and preparations for his final departure from the Sudan

1951 Dec 15 - 1959 Aug 24
Personal correspondence of Gibbons and Mrs. Gibbons, consisting chiefly of letters of farewell on Gibbons' final departure from the Sudan, from friends and former colleagues with news of their families and careers after leaving the Gezira, from Sudanese staff of the Sudan Gezira Board concerning developments in the Gezira and the country at large, and letters of condolence on Gibbons' death

1959
Obituaries and official letters of condolence on the death of Gibbons

1964 - 1981
Papers relating to the Sudan Gezira reunions organised by Mrs. Gibbons, comprising invitations, menus, letters of thanks and appreciation, and accounts

1981 Jul 24 - 1998 May 6
Personal letters to Mrs. Gibbons on Sudan matters including K.D.D. Henderson concerning the possibility of writing a history of the Gezira scheme, and Rev. T. Biles concerning the Sudan - Salisbury link

1936 - 1958
Papers relating to financial matters, chiefly official letters concerning payments of income tax and remittance of salary, bank statements, notes of payments to servants and statement of amounts due to Gibbons on termination of service in 1958

1955 - 1958
Receipts for goods purchased in the Sudan and for subscriptions to club and church

[ca. 1958]
Draft memoir by Gibbons of his service in the Gezira, arranged in chapters, possibly as a synopsis for a longer account

1957, 1999
Obituaries for Bishop Llewellyn Gwynne, former Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan, 1920-1945 (d. 1957) and S.R. Simpson, formerly of the Sudan Political Service 1926-1953 (d. 1999)

1931 - ca.1985
Press cuttings concerning the Bagnold expedition to the Libyan Desert (1931); the success of the Legislative Assembly (1950); the unveiling of the Sudan memorial in Westminster Abbey, with invitation (1960); Jebel Aulia displaced persons camp; stamp collecting to raise funds for the Sudan Church Association (1977); the life and death of Flight Lt Derek Ripley, formerly of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate (ca. 1985)

[ca.1950s]
Photographs of British men and women in the Sudan:

[ca.1950s]
Photographs of houses and gardens occupied by Gibbons in Blue Nile Province:

[ca. 1950s]
Photographs of Sudanese people:

[ca. 1950s]
General views:

[ca. 1950s]
Photographs of Khartoum:

[ca. 1964-1982]
Colour photograph of guests in the garden of Mrs. Gibbons' house during a Gezira reunion (held 1964-1982)

1925 - 1930
Programmes for race meetings at Wad Medani Polo Club

1930
Order of service for the laying of the foundation stone of Wad Medani church

1937
Blue Nile Province driver's licence issued to Mrs. Gibbons

1955
Record of maximum and minimum temperatures and amounts of rainfall in Blue Nile Province

[ca.1980]
Sudan Church Association map of the province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan