1931
Annual report on Gordon Memorial College for 1930 by C.W. Williams, Warden covering staff changes, including the retirement of Udal, buildings and accommodation, statistics and students, class work, Arifs' section, Somali pupils, employment, fees, boarding house, health, games and ex-pupils at the American University of Beirut

1933 Mar 7
Report of a committee appointed by the Governor-General to review the educational policy for the northern Sudan. The committee members were R.K. Winter, H.A. MacMichael and H.E. Fass

1961 May 18
Minutes of a meeting of the trustees and executive committee of the Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund

1947
List of questions posed by Lord Stansgate to Sir Reginald Wingate on the likely course of events in the Sudan, with related correspondence from Lord Stansgate to Wingate, with reply, and from Wingate and C.G. Davies to Udal

1952 Feb 27
Note by Sir Cecil Cumings, Legal Secretary on obstacles in the way of immediate independence for the Sudan, with covering letter to Udal

1954 Sep
“A note on Sudan politics since 1938” confidential note by Udal

1955 Nov
Report on Southern Sudan, by Colin Legum

1959 Feb 13 - 1960 Aug 5
Correspondence between Udal and Selwyn Lloyd concerning affairs in the Sudan, including a draft letter from Udal re Siddiq al-Mahdi (SAD.779/9/22-23)

1919 Jul 31 - 1951 Dec 24
Correspondence from and concerning Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, a personal friend of N.R.U. From 1951 until his death in 1959, N.R.U. acted as personal and political adviser in the U.K. to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman. Letters include Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re his interview with the King in 1919 and N.R.U.'s engagement (SAD.779/10/1), with thanks for N.R.U.'s letter to The Times (1940) in defence of the Mahdi (SAD.779/10/2-4), re his wish to present a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth, with related correspondence between J. Colville and N.R.U. (SAD.779/10/5-27), re his disatisfaction with a broadcast by Lord Stansgate in which he referred to the Mahdi as a 'slave trader' (SAD.779/10/29-30), with N.R.U.'s letters to Lord Stansgate and replies (SAD.779/10/32, 34-39); S.N. Kurkjian to N.R.U. and N.R.U. to Sir James Robertson, with reply, re Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's wish to appoint N.R.U. his personal and political adviser in the U.K. (SAD.779/10/41-42,49-51,53-55); N.R.U. to the P.M. Clement Atlee setting out Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's views on Egyptian involvement in the process of self-government for the Sudan (SAD.779/10/43-48); `Abd Allah Bey Khalil, Sec-Gen Umma Party to the editor of The Sunday Times re the aspirations of the Umma Party, written in response to an article of the previous week (SAD.779/10/60); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re his advice to the leaders of the Umma Party not to take any actions before discussions with the Governor-General (SAD.779/10/63-64); Sir George Schuster urging the introduction of self- determination for the Sudan as soon as possible (SAD.779/10/76); Sir James Robertson re the damage caused to Anglo/Sudanese relations by the statements issued by the Umma Party delegation in Paris, with comments by N.R.U. (SAD.779/10/77-78); Sir James Robertson re British disquiet at the Umma Party's close association with Fenner-Brockway and 'The Congress of Peoples against Imperialism' (SAD.779/10/81-82); N.R.U. to W.F. Casey, editor of The Times, explaining the actions of the Umma Party delegation in Paris and attempting to distance them from the senior party members in the Sudan (SAD.779/10/84- 88)

1952 Jan 5 - Dec 28
Papers concerning Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, consisting chiefly of correspondence from Sir James Robertson criticising Umma Party press releases (SAD.779/11/5-8), re progress with the new constitution (SAD.779/11/12-14,16-17); N.R.U. to the editor of The Times re Sudan's willingness to discuss with Egypt and Britain their future foreign relations, after the granting of self-determination (SAD.779/11/18-20); Robertson re the selection by Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman of an Umma Party team to travel to Cairo for talks and the reaction of Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani and the Ashigga to this news (SAD.779/11/32-34) and re the outcome of the Cairo talks (SAD.779/11/46); Robertson to Prof L.F. Rushbrook Williams at The Times concerning difficulties facing Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman after the Cairo talks (SAD.779/11/47-48); Robertson re the fall of Hilali Pasha in Egypt (SAD.779/11/54); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re his invitation from Sirri Pasha for talks in Cairo (SAD.779/11/56-58); Lord Lloyd to N.R.U. extending an invitation to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman to a royal garden party and audience with the Queen (SAD.779/11/61); Robertson re the latest Egyptian cabinet crisis and his fears for Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's visit to Cairo (SAD.779/11/63-64); Robertson re rumours of a planned coup d'état by Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman, his fears for Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's close ties with Egypt and indications that H.M.G. plan to 'go slow' over the new self-government statute (SAD.779/11/68-70); R.C. Mayall re misrepresentation in The Times of the outcome of the Umma Party talks in Cairo (SAD.779/11/77); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re his decision to send his son Siddiq al-Mahdi with Sayyid `Abd Allah Khalil to London for talks with the P.M. (SAD.779/11/86-87); N.R.U. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph refuting that newspaper's claims of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's ambition to be King of the Sudan (SAD.779/11/96); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re points of agreement and disagreement between the Sudan and Egypt (SAD.779/11/101-102); Robertson re Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's role in delaying the movement towards elections and self-determination in return for Egyptian recognition, the folly of his insistence that all nazirs and heads of courts should resign before standing for Parliament and Robertson's fears for the south (SAD.779/11/108-110,112-113); draft telegram from N.R.U. to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman urging him to resist any curtailment of the Govenor-General's powers safeguarding the south (SAD.779/11/111). Also includes:

1953 Jan 1 - 1954 Dec 1
Papers relating to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi including correspondence from Sir James Robertson to N.R.U. re the closer ties between the Umma Party and Egypt and the apparent withdrawal of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman into the background (SAD.779/12/2); draft letter from N.R.U. to Sayyid 'Abd al-Rahman re his concern at the agreement reached between the Umma Party and other political parties in the Sudan and Egypt which would lead to the removal of all British officials and endanger the Governor-General's powers to safeguard the south (SAD.779/12/4-5); Robertson re reassurances from various sources that recent Umma Party moves should not be construed as anti-British (SAD.779/12/6); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re discussions with the Governor-General on safeguards for the south (SAD.779/12/7-9); Robertson re discussions with Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman over the latter's distrust of Egypt and fears for the effects of Egyptian propaganda in the Sudan (SAD.779/12/15-16); Sir Kinahan Cornwallis re the need to trust Sudanese leaders in their dealings with the south (SAD.779/12/22); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re the conclusion of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement (SAD.779/12/23-24); Sir Kinahan Cornwallis re Najib's dealings with Britain (SAD.779/12/28-29); Robertson re Selwyn Lloyd's visit to Khartoum and accusations by Sayyid Saddiq against the British administration in the south (SAD.779/12/30-31); Siddiq al-Mahdi and Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re Egyptian interference in the Sudanese elections (SAD.779/12/46-48,50-51); L.F. Rushbrook Williams re his belief that Egyptian interference in the Sudan will lead to a 'severe reaction in favour of independence' (SAD.779/12/52-53); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re the death on 1 Mar of independence supporters protesting against the presence of Gen. Najib (SAD.779/12/59-60). Also includes:

1955 Jan 8 - 1957 Dec 23
Papers relating to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi and his family including correspondence from Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re continued Egyptian propaganda in the Sudan, accusations against the Umma Party in Gen. Najib's recently published biography and re the presentation of a sword to Sir Winston Churchill on the occasion of his 80th birthday (SAD.780/2/1,3,5-6); Siddiq al-Mahdi re the agreement of Parliament to the evacuation of foreign troops and re the mutiny in the south (SAD.780/2/12); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re Umma Party support for the government, the southern mutiny, opposition in the British press to the Umma Party and Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani's insistence on holding the middle ground (SAD.780/2/14-18); Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman re irregularities in the elections (SAD.780/2/23-24) and re the defeat of the Azhari government (SAD.780/2/30-31). The remaining letters concern Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's health and payment to N.R.U. for his services as Adviser

1958 Jan 6 - 1963 Mar 3
Papers relating to Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi and his family including numerous letters concerning Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman's health, chiefly from his doctor Pierre W. Duchosal of Geneva and correspondence from Muhammad al-Hasan Diab re dissension between the Umma and Peoples Democratic Parties (SAD.780/3/6-8); Muhammad al-Hasan Diab re the 1958 military coup (SAD.780/3/19); telegram to N.R.U. announcing the death of Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD.780/3/26); letters of condolence from Muhammad al-Hasan Diab, Sir James Robertson, Sir Geoffrey Archer, Dr. Pierre Duchosal, Selwyn Lloyd, Sir Edwin Chapman-Andrews, British Ambassador to the Sudan, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis and Sir Christopher Cox (SAD.780/3/27-42); Muhammad al-Hasan Diab to N.R.U. re support for Sayyid Siddiq and the appointment of a committee to arrange a suitable memorial for Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD.780/3/43-44); correspondence re the presentation to Sayyid Siddiq by N.R.U. of the Mahdi's qu`ran, taken after the bombardment of the Mahdi's tomb in 1898 (SAD.780/3/45-55); and letters enclosing contributions to the memorial fund for Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman (SAD.780/3/56- 61)

1904 Nov 2 - 1936 Feb 9
Personal correspondence relating to Udal's service in the Sudan and subsequent career after retirement from the Sudan, including testimonials from school and university (SAD.780/4/1-8); Sir Reginald Wingate in praise of the work at Gordon College, 1915 (SAD.780/4/9); letter of thanks from M. Murray on behalf of the Prince of Wales (SAD.780/4/11); K. Cornwallis re the omission of Udal's name from the Hijaz despatch (SAD.780/4/13); letter of thanks from Sir Reginald Wingate for Udal's services as acting A.D.C. (SAD.780/4/14); testimonials from Sudan officials (SAD.780/4/18-23); congratulations on a C.B.E. for Udal (SAD.780/4/24-29); notification from J.G. Matthew of Udal's retirement on medical grounds (SAD.780/4/31-32); farewell letters and telegrams from fellow colleagues and Sudanese friends (SAD.780/4/33-45,48-57); Udal to Sir Wasey Sterry re discussions with Sayyid `Ali al-Mirghani on prospects for a treaty with Egypt, the likely outcome of allowing the return of an Egyptian battalion to the Sudan and the failure of British officials to solicit his views (SAD.780/4/46-47); congratulations on Udal's appointment as Bursar of Clifton College, Bristol (SAD.780/4/58-61); testimonials and farewell letters on leaving Clifton College (SAD.780/4/62-69)

1918 Sep 3
Transcript by H. Keown-Boyd of a letter from his father A.W. Keown-Boyd, Private Secretary to Sir Reginald Wingate, probably to his parents, describing in some detail a visit to Jerusalem in the company of NRU

1924 Nov 30 - Dec 5
Letters from Udal to his parents concerning his experiences during the mutiny of the 11th Sudanese battalion in Khartoum and its aftermath

1927 Mar 2
Warrant authorising Udal to act as Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts for the Sudan

[1930]
Account of celebrations to mark Udal's departure from the Sudan

1940 Feb - 1964 Jan 29
Personal correspondence to Udal chiefly from friends and former associates in the Sudan, including `Ali Bedri re his appointment as Minister of Health in 1948 (SAD.780/6/5-7); Abd al-Rahman Ali Taha re his appointment as Minister of Education in 1948 (SAD.780/6/8-9); Sir Reginald Wingate and Sir James Robertson re Udal's retirement from the secretaryship of the Athenaeum (SAD.780/6/10-12); Udal to Sir Winston Churchill offering him a Hadendowa spear which was captured at Kerreri, from Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, with replies (SAD.780/6/23-26); R.H. Turton re British imports of Sudanese cotton (SAD.780/6/29-30); note of testimonies of Khalafalla Khalid and Mirghani Hamza during the trial of Muhammad Mekki, editor of El Nass newspaper, enclosed in letter from R.H. Turton (SAD.780/6/31-36); Nasr al-Hag `Ali re his appointment as vice-chancellor of Khartoum University (SAD.780/6/44); Muhammad al-Hasan Diab re the progress of public works in the Sudan (SAD.780/6/52-53,65-68); Sir Geoffry Archer re the forthcoming publication of his book The story of the Sudan … (SAD.780/6/62-63); L. Sanderson and Sir Christopher Cox re early Education Department reports (SAD.780/6/69-71)

1929-1930
Texts of farewell speeches made to Udal on the announcement of his retirement and his departure from the Sudan by J.G. Matthew, Secretary for Education and Health, Magzub `Ali Hasseib, `Abd al-Karim Muhammad, al-Tayyib `Abd al-Qadir, representative of the first year students, Ahmad `Uthman al-Qadir, Muhammad al-Hasan Diab, headmaster Omdurman primary school, Shaikh Omer Ishak of the Sudan Schools Club and Muhammad al-Mustafa al-Awad, representing the boys of the Gordon College workshops

1935 May 3
Text of a speech by Sir James Currie to the Oxford Luncheon Club on the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, with covering letter to Udal

1939 Oct 29
Copy of an address by Udal on “The Gordon College, Khartoum”, presented at Winchester College Chapel

[1952]
Address by Udal on the history of the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum

1930 Mar 8
“al-Qasida al-Wataniyah”, a verse in praise of Udal by S. Hillelson, delivered at a party in Udal's honour held at the Omdurman Graduates' Club
Language: Arabic and English

1930
Flyer for W.H. McLean's Regional and town planning in principle and practice (London, 1930)

1964 Mar 19
Order of service for a memorial service for Udal (d. 27 Feb 1964), with copy of Sir Angus Gillan's address

Album of postcards and photographs, chiefly of Khartoum:

1906 - 1915, 1929
Album of photographs covering Udal's early career at Gordon College in Khartoum and journeys to and from home on leave. Contact prints have been made from an original album still in the possession of the Udal family and arranged here in the same order:

1919-1923
Album of photographs covering Udal's service at Gordon College, Khartoum, but including some photographs of Egypt. Contact prints have been made from an original album still in the possession of the Udal family and arranged here in the same order:

1925
Album of photographs covering Udal's life in Khartoum as well as trips to Blue Nile Province and Suakin. Selected contact prints made from an original album still in the possession of the Udal family:

1925-1945
Album of photographs, chiefly from Udal's service at Gordon College. Selected contact prints made from an original album still in the possession of the Udal family:

1910, 1924-1954
Album of photographs covering Udal's life in Khartoum from 1924 - 1926, with one loose photograph from 1910 and several of Udal in retirement from 1951-1954. Contact prints have been made from an original album in the possession of the Udal family and arranged here in the same order:

1926-1927
Album of photographs covering Udal and family in Khartoum and Sinkat, with leave in the U.K. and Palestine. Contact prints of an original album still in the possession of the Udal family and arranged here in the same order:

[c.1920]
L. to R.: E.S. Fiddes, J.N. Richardson, M.W. Parr, A.J.T. Fleming-Sandes and N. Field

[1920-1930]
Bishop Llewellyn Gwynne

[c.1927]
Baron R.K. von Slatin Pasha with M.R.U. on the steps of the Udal's home, Khartoum

1937 Jun
Gen. Sir F.R. Wingate (centre front), with a party of distinguished Sudanese at Regent's Park Zoo. Udal is standing to the left of Wingate, Siddiq al-Mahdi to his right and Lady Wingate on his right. Also included are Muhammad Salah Shangeiti, Abd `Allah Khalil and Dr. Fadl al-Bushra. Udal's son John, aged 11, is standing in front of Lady Wingate. (Photo taken by MRU)

1944
Postcard of a habub over the British fort ( Sudan Times F27), sent to Udal by Gen. Sir Reginald Wingate on the anniversary of the Battle of Omdurman

1961 Mar 17
Udal and M.R.U. with Maj. Gen. Hasen Beshir Nasr at a reception in his honour given by the Military Attaché at the Sudan Embassy (Photo by N. Karakashian)

1961 Dec
Ansari at `Id celebrations, sent with Christmas greetings to Udal from al-Sayyid `Abd Allahi al-Fadl al-Mahdi

1963 Nov 19
Udal and M.R.U. with the Sudan Ambassador and his wife at an Embassy reception

1964 Jan 5
Ansari at `Id celebrations, sent with Christmas greetings to Udal by al-Sayyid `Abd Allahi al-Fadl al-Mahdi

1925
Obituaries for John Symonds Udal, father of Udal, from The Bridport News

1952 Feb 20
Local vernacular press summary, issued by the Public Relations Branch

1952 Jun 10 - Aug 20
Talks in Alexandria between the Sudanese delegation under Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi and the Egyptian P.M., from The Times

1952 Sep 28
Interview with Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi in London, from The Sunday Times

1952 Nov 8
50th anniversary of Gordon Memorial College, from The Times

1953 Jan 29 - Feb 3
The death of General Sir Reginald Wingate, from the Scotsman and The Times

1953 May 7
The death of Sir Robert Archibald, from The Times

1953 Aug 24
Umma Party conference and details of agreement with the Egyptian Government, from The Times

1953 Aug 25 - Nov 12
Sudan elections, from The Times, The Manchester Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Daily Mail

1953 Sep 12
“High-level dispute in Egypt. Moslem brotherhood and junta at odds”, from The Manchester Guardian

1956
Letter to The Times from Mirza Ismail in praise of British rule in the Sudan

1958 Jan 15
Death of Bishop Gwynne, from the Daily Telegraph

1958 Mar 8
“Election campaigning with the Mahdi's family”, from The Times

1959 Jun 5
Obituary for Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, from The Times, with draft letter of response by Udal

Three `agals for securing Arab headdress

1898 Dec 10
Punch no. 2996, v.115, including sketch of Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum

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


Currie, James: “Present day difficulties of a young officer in the tropics”, repr. from The Colonial Services Club magazine (1932)
Currie, James: “The educational experiment in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1930-33”, repr. from Journal of the African Society
Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund: Statement of accounts for year ended 31st December 1959 (Dupl.) [London, 1960]
Hadarat el Sudan, 12 Mar 1930
Hussey, E.R.J., Tropical Africa 1908-1944. Memoirs of a period (London, 1959)
McLean, W.H., Regional and town planning in principle and practice (Dedication to N.R. Udal by the author) (London 1930)
Udal, N.R., Education in the Northern Sudan (Paper presented at the Estratto Dagli Atti Dell' VIII Convegno at Rome, 4-11 Oct 1938) (Rome 1940)
Wingate, F.R., “The story of the Gordon College”, repr. from The story of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route, 1887-1925 vol 4 (Dedication to N.R. Udal by the author)