Correspondence with Handley D. Hooper

  • Reference
    • GB 133 GDN/A/H88
  • Dates of Creation
    • 30 May 1925-5 Jan 1926
  • Physical Description
    • 6 pieces

Scope and Content

Correspondence with Handley D. Hooper, clergyman and missionary, relating to a request by Scott that Hooper act as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian in Kenya, with discussion of the dispossession of the native population, [which is accepted.] Also included is correspondence with Norman Leys, doctor and Africanist, relating to the provision by Leys of a letter by Hooper on concerns relating to the impact of the compulsion of work for railway construction on the [native] reserves for publication in the Manchester Guardian, and discussion of Hooper as a potential correspondent for the paper.

GDN/A/H88/2 is an article featuring excerpts of a letter by Hooper entitled The Kenya Reserves in the Manchester Guardian, 1925.

GDN/A/H88/6 is an article by Hooper entitled 'Natives of East Africa; Unofficial Europeans in Conference' in the Manchester Guardian, 1926.