1927 - 1928
Butana notebooks kept by Lea while Assistant District Commissioner Khashm el Girba; a day-by-day record of orders received, work done, itineraries, transcripts of telegrams and conversations. Originals handwritten in pencil. For typescript copies see SAD.645/8/46-131 under 2. Personal Correspondence.

1935 Dec 1 - 1936 Jan 23
Carbon copies of official correspondence sent by Lea while Assistant District Commissioner, Tokar

1936 Feb 9 - 1937 Jan 10
Carbon copies of official correspondence sent by Lea while Assistant District Commissioner, Tokar. Letters at SAD.645/6/66-72 relate to activities connected with the outbreak of war with Italy.

1926 Dec 8 - 1927 Apr 3
Earliest extant copy (typescript) of letters from Lea to his parents, written in the form of a journal and covering his journey to the Sudan, a short period at Kassala and his first months as ADC Khashm el Girba. (For later copy see below)

1982 Jan
“Letters to my parents, 1926-7” and “Three Butana notebooks”: typescript copies of SAD.645/2-645/4 and SAD.645/7 above, with an introduction by Lea describing his background and Sudan experience, explanatory note to the letters and notebooks, and glossary of terms used

1931 Mar 8 - May 27
Journal of Lea giving a daily account of his life at Soderi, Northern Kordofan, covering the period from the journey to Soderi to take over from Hector Maclean Watt to the last stage of the journey to Omdurman to go on leave. (Part manuscript and part typescript. For typescript transcript, see below, SAD.676/8.)

1931 Sep 26 - 1932 Oct 10
Journal of Lea covering his service at Soderi, Northern Kordofan. For the period 10 Oct-31 Dec 1932 see duplicate book at SAD.677/2 below. Top copies lost. For typescript transcript see SAD.676/8 below.

1933 Jan 12 - Jun 4
Trek journal covering a tour of Soderi by Douglas Newbold, Governor of Kordofan (12-25 Jan 1933); a trek from Bara to the White Nile border (20 Feb-6 Mar 1933); and part of a trek from Soderi to Mellit in Darfur with Shaykh Sir `Ali al-Tum. For 20-22 Mar and 3-18 Jun see duplicate book at SAD.677/3 below. For typescript transcript see SAD.676/8/1-170 below.

1931 Mar 7 - 1933 Jun 14
Typescript transcript of Lea's journals SAD.645/9 and SAD.647/7-647/8 above, with explanatory note and glossary

1931 Mar 7 - 1944 Jun 18
Carbon copies of Lea's journals SAD.645/9 and SAD.647/7-SAD.647/8 above, including copies of correspondence. SAD.677/3/1-80 includes copies of correspondence written in 1944 in Gedaref District.

1935 Oct 31 - Dec 2
Journal covering Lea's service in Tokar, and including the following photographs:

1935 Oct 31 - Dec 2
Typescript copy of Lea's Tokar journal SAD.677/4/1-92 above, with introduction and further comments and explanations added in 1981

1935 Nov 9 - Dec 1
Lea's journal written during service at Tokar, including copies of correspondence, route reports and sketch maps

1939 Nov 3 - 28
Trek journal describing a journey by A.C. Beaton, R. Salmon and Lea in the Karora hills to recruit local scouts and plan the establishment and provision of bases in anticipation of an Italian attack. Includes route reports and sketches.

1939
Xerox copies of sketches of views in the Karora hills included in trek journal SAD.677/7/1-124 above. Many are painted in water colours. The original of SAD.677/8/8 is missing from the trek journal.

[ca. 1937 - 1938]
Album of photographs illustrating Tokar sand clearance, presented to Lea by K.B. El Koussa, contractor

[n.d.]
Glossary of vernacular topographical terms used on maps in the Middle East
Language: Arabic, English

[ca. early 1950s]
Typescript copy of “A grammar of the Tigri language” by A.C. Beaton, later published as A.C. Beaton and A. Paul, A grammar and vocabulary of the Tigre language: (as spoken by the Beni Amer), Khartoum (1954)
Language: Tigré

1926
The sub-ma'mur's handbook, Khartoum, with signatures of various owners