Catalogue of the papers of Mervyn J. Wheatley

Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: WHEATLEY, Mervyn J.
Dates of creation: 1907-1961
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: material relating to service in the Sudan
Language: English

WHEATLEY, Mervyn J.

(1880 - 1974)


	1907	Seconded from the Egyptian Army to the Sudan Government
	1907-1911	Dep. Asst. Civil Secretary
	1911-1913	Kordofan
	1913-1916	Asst. Civil Secretary
	1916	Acting Civil Secretary
	1917-1920	Private Secretary to the Governor-General
	1921-1928	Governor, Bahr al-Ghazal
	1928	Retired

Arrangement

1. Official Papers

2. Personal Papers

3. Trek Journals

4. Articles

5. Miscellanea

6. Photographic Material

7. Newspaper Cuttings

8. Printed Material

Catalogue

1. Official Papers

SAD.702/11/1-17

1907-1928
Orders and decorations:

SAD.702/11/1

1907 Nov 14
Appointment as Major
Language: Ottoman Turkish

SAD.702/11/2-3

1913
Appointment as Junior Colonel (dated 23 Rabi I 1331)
Language: Ottoman Turkish

SAD.702/11/4-5

1917
Order of Nile, 3rd class (dated 7 Jumada I, 1335)
Language: Arabic

SAD.702/11/6-7

1917 Aug 25
Confirmation of above

SAD.702/11/8

1919 Jan 1
Grant of the dignity of an officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire

SAD.702/11/9-10

1921
Promotion to Mir Alay (colonel) dated 23 Jumada II, 1331
Language: Arabic

SAD.702/11/11-13

1922, 1924
Letters re the grant of the Order of the Nahda 3rd class

SAD.702/11/14-15

1925 Jan 19
Appointment as Mir Alay in the Sudan Defence Force
Language: English and Arabic

SAD.702/11/16-17

1928 May 24
Notification of appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire

SAD.702/11/18-25

1912 Jul 28 - 1921 Jan 30
Army Orders and War Office Gazettes including references to Wheatley's appointments, promotions and decorations

SAD.702/12/1-46

1924-1928
Correspondence received by Wheatley while Governor Bahr al-Ghazal, with some draft replies. Includes:-

SAD.702/12/1-6; 702/12/9-31

1924 May 14 - 1926 May 5
Re Lee Stack's proposal to appoint Wheatley Commissioner General of the Southern Sudan, with comments by George Schuster, Financial Secretary, C.E. Lyall, Civil Secretary and Sir Geoffrey Archer, the new Governor-General

SAD.702/12/7-8

1924 Oct 18
H.A. MacMichael, Asst. Civil Secretary re the White Flag mutiny

SAD.702/12/32-33

1926 Jan 16 - Feb 23
George Schuster re southern development, with Wheatley's reply

SAD.702/12/24-29

1925 Mar
Memorandum outlining administrative changes proposed by the new Governor-General, Sir Geoffrey Archer

2. Personal Papers

SAD.703/1/1-47

1929-1951
Correspondence received by Wheatley after his retirement from Sudan service, including:-

SAD.703/1/3-5

1945 May 1
Ahmad `Uthman al-Qadi re the birth of the Umma Party

SAD.703/1/13-15; 703/1/27

1949 Jan 4 - Jul 19
R.C. Mayall and J.W. Robertson re Sudanese students studying in Britain

SAD.703/1/29-44

1949 Jul 27 - 1950 Jun 21
Wheatley and W.N. Allan re the development of Equatoria Province

SAD.703/2/1-10

1930 Sep 26 - Dec 24
Letters to Wheatley from Sir R. Wingate, J. Maffey and M.G. Richards re Odette Keun's Story of Fergie Bey

SAD.703/2/11-13

1956-1961
Miscellaneous letters

3. Trek Journals

SAD.703/3/1-65

1911 Oct 31 - 1912 Jun 13
Trek journal covering the period of service in Kordofan and consisting mainly of details of cases heard, numbers of cattle inspected and position and condition of wells. Also includes an account of a patrol against and the eventual death of a faqi who had been inciting the Nuba (703/3/42-49).

SAD.703/4/1-44

1912 Aug 30 - 1913 Mar 12
Trek journal covering the period of service in Kordofan, content similar to journal above (703/3)

4. Articles

SAD.703/5/1-3

[n.d.]
Article on “Missionaries and education in Pagan Africa”, author unknown

5. Miscellanea

SAD.703/5/4

New year's card from Lord and Lady Lloyd

SAD.703/5/5-17

Lists (by district) of Sudanese in the United Kingdom for further education

6. Photographic Material

(a) Bahr al-Ghazal, c. 1921-28

SAD.701/11/1-35; 701/12/1-27; 701/13/1-12

1920's
British personnel, houses and gardens, mostly unidentified but of Wheatley and his wife and also the following:-

SAD.701/11/6-10,20

A.J. Gillan and Mrs. Gillan

SAD.701/11/12

Wheatley and Mrs. Wheatley visiting Mboro, 1927

SAD.701/11/25-26

Harry Kidd in football team

SAD.701/11/28

Sir Robert Archibald

SAD.701/11/29-30

Lord Allenby, Sir Lee Stack and Wheatley outside Wau mudiriyyah 31 Jan 1924

SAD.701/12/4-5

Missionary father

SAD.701/12/13-15

Playing polo

SAD.701/12/17-18

Funeral at the Catholic mission, Mboro

SAD.701/12/19-27

Patrol 101, 1925, including field hospital

SAD.701/13/2-3

Mess building, Wau

SAD.701/13/4-9

Governor's house, Wau

SAD.701/14/1-34; 701/15/1-32

Sudanese, including the following:

SAD.701/14/1

Shilluk man

SAD.701/14/2

Equatorial Corps (?) bandsman

SAD.701/14/3

Ndogo tribe at Mboro

SAD.701/14/10

Chief Ting at Adok

SAD.701/14/11

Chief Twil of the Nuer

SAD.701/14/12-19

Nuer men and women

SAD.701/14/20

Group of headmen and chiefs at Jorr

SAD.701/14/28,31

Dinka girls and boys at Kajok

SAD.701/15/20-22

Road building at Adok, Nov 1926

SAD.701/15/23-31

Dinka gathering

SAD.701/16/1-4; 701/17/1-29

Schools and missions, including the following:

SAD.701/16/1

Mons. Antonio Stoppani

SAD.701/16/2-3

Distribution of prizes at the end of the school year, Wau

SAD.701/16/4-5

Stack Memorial School, Wau, 1927

SAD.701/16/6

Father Ribero at Bandere, 1927

SAD.701/16/7-10

Missionary Fathers, neophytes and catechumens, Wau

SAD.701/16/11-16

Missionary Sisters and their pupils, Wau

SAD.701/16/17

Father Bartolo Fabris, Wau, 1927

SAD.701/16/18-41

External and internal views of school, possibly Stack Memorial School, Wau

SAD.701/17/1-7

Unidentified

SAD.701/17/8-10

Mopoi Mission, 1927, including N.B. Hunter, Inspector of Education

SAD.701/17/12-13

The new church, at Mbaridi, 1926-27

SAD.701/17/14

Interior of St. John's Church, Yambio, 4 Apr 1920

SAD.701/17/15-16

Artisan Mission school

SAD.701/17/17-20

Dinka Mission, Kajok, 1924

SAD.701/17/21-22

Cleveland Mission Station, 1924

SAD.701/17/23-25

Kayango new church, 1927

SAD.701/17/26

Mboro Catholic Mission

SAD.701/17/27

Missionaries on motor cycle outside Beka rest house, south of Mopoi Mission, 1927

SAD.701/17/28

Outside Wau Workshops, 1925

SAD.701/17/29

Catechumens at Deim Zubeir

SAD.701/18/1-25; 701/19/1-18

River views, including barges, steamers and canoes, also the following:

SAD.701/18/8-9

The new causeway at Jorr

SAD.701/18/10-11

The sudd

SAD.701/19/2

Adok

SAD.701/19/5

View of the river from the Governor's house, Wau

SAD.701/19/8

Khor Ward, 12 miles inland from Adok

SAD.701/19/13-14

The Lady Baker hospital ship

SAD.701/19/16

The Pio XI, 1926

SAD.701/20/1-9

Transport - motor, air and rail

SAD.701/21/1-20

Village life including:

SAD.701/21/2

Shop at Adok

SAD.701/21/4

New merchant's shop at Jorr

SAD.701/22/1-11

Rural scenes including grass fires (701/22/1-2)

SAD.701/23/1-9

Animals and birds

(b) Khartoum

SAD.701/24/1

Gordon College

SAD.701/24/2

The Palace

(c) Port Sudan

SAD.701/24/3

Quay and harbour, Port Sudan

(d) Portrait photographs

SAD.8/53/1

1927
Rudolf Slatin

SAD.8/53/2-3

[c.1927]
Anna Marie Slatin

SAD.8/53/4

1919
S. Skirmunt, Sudan Government Forest Service

SAD.8/53/5

1909 May
P.R. Phipps with his horse, Nyam-Nyam

SAD.8/53/6

Wheatley (in retirement)

SAD.701/24/4

Maj. Gen. Sir Lee Stack

8. Newspaper Cuttings

SAD.703/5/18

1912 Apr 2
“Camel Corps in action. Religious fanatic and followers killed in the Sudan”, from The Daily Graphic

SAD.703/5/19

1912 Apr 12
“Burdens of administration in the Sudan. Details of recent fighting”, an account of the suppression of a faqi and his followers in Kordofan, by Wheatley from The Morning Post

SAD.703/5/20

1914 Jan 31
“The taxation of trading profits in the Sudan”, including comments on the ‘premature introduction of civilian officialdom', from The Sudan Herald

SAD.703/5/21

1919 Mar 28
Announcement of Wheatley's retirement from the London Gazette

SAD.703/5/22-25

1928 Jan 7
The Sudan Herald. Includes articles on the opening of the Stack Memorial School, Wau, by Wheatley and the progress of the patrol against the Lau Nuer

SAD.703/5/26

[n.d.]
Extract from the Journal of the African Society on a conference on “The Christian Mission in Africa”

SAD.703/5/27-28

[n.d.]
Criticism of English missionary education

Printed material

Durham University Library Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC.
Supplement to the African World. Gordon Memorial fund appeal 2 Feb 1929
Gelsthorpe, A.M., Introducing the diocese of the Sudan [c.1946]
The Sudan's progress towards self-government 1951-52. Supplementary to Reference Paper R 2214 “The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan” (Great Britain, Central Office of Information, Reference Division: London, 1952)
The Sudan Government British Pensioners' Association: Rules London (Dupl)
Quarterly list of the Sudan Government for the quarter beginning 1 Oct, 1927 ... 1 Jul 1928 ... 1 Jul 1929 3v. dupls. (Khartoum, 1927-29)
Background to Sudan News: The main political parties in Khartoum, October, 1951 (London, 1951)
1001 facts about the Sudan as on 1.1.52 (Khartoum dupl.)
Report of the Rejaf Language Conference, 1928 (London, 1928 dupl.)
Sudan Political Service, 1899-1956 (Oxford [196-?] dupl.)