Correspondence with Arthur Shearley Cripps (1869-1952), missionary and poet, relating to discussion of the political situation and current affairs of Southern Rhodesia, with reference to the impact of the proposed railway construction by the British South Africa Company, the Native Juveniles [Employment Act] 1927, and a law prohibiting natives from walking on sidewalks. There is a letter of recommendation for Cripps from F.O. Stohr.
There is correspondence relating to an article by on segregation in Southern Rhodesia which is published in the Manchester Guardian, and also discussion of the potential publication of a letter by Cripps on the law relating to native juveniles. Also included is a request by Cripps to send a notice of The Story of Mbulawa by Peter Nielsen for publication in the Manchester Guardian, which is refused, and discussion of a potential meeting between Cripps and [James] Bone. There is correspondence relating to the response in other papers to an article in the Manchester Guardian on the proposed sidewalk law in Southern Rhodesia.
GDN/A/C95/2 is an internal employment history index card for Cripps, 1920.
GDN/A/C95/6 is a newspaper cutting of a notice of a prize given by the University of Oxford for a poem on a sacred subject, which was won by Cripps, in the Manchester Guardian, 1926.
GDN/A/C95/7 is a newspaper cutting of an article by Cripps entitled 'Segregation in Areas of Southern Rhodesia' in the [Manchester Guardian, 1629].
GDN/A/C95/9 is a newspaper cutting entitled 'Native Girls in White Employ' in The Bulawayo Chronicle, 1927.
GDN/A/C95/18-19 are newspaper cuttings of articles on the Manchester Guardian coverage of a law in Rhodesia relating to the use of sidewalks, 1930.