Title: Walter B. Cockerill Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1911-1915, 1951-circa 1969

Creator:

• Cockerill, Walter B., 1886-1984

Call Number: Wis Mss NJ

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Walter B. Cockerill, a Seventh Day Baptist missionary in Nyasaland (now Malawi), British Central Africa in 1914-1915 during the period of the Chilembwe Uprising, led by African Reverend John Chilembwe. The collection consists primarily of letters along with related papers, publications, and one photograph. The letters from 1911 to 1915, are from African preachers to Australian missionary Joseph Booth, as well as a small group of letters from Cockerill to his family describing his work, local conditions, and analysis and observations of the rebellion. The bulk of the correspondence from 1952 to 1958, is between Cockerill and historian George Shepperson, who used Cockerill's documents and recollections to write a history of the uprising.

Language: English

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Walter Benjamin Cockerill (1886-1984) from Milton Junction, Wisconsin, served as a Seventh Day Baptist missionary in Nyasaland (now Malawi), British Central Africa in 1914-1915. During this period was the Chilembwe Uprising, a revolt against British colonial rule, led by Reverend John Chilembwe, and African who trained as a minister in the United States. British authorities accused Cockerill and other foreign missionaries including Joseph Booth of teaching sedition and deported them.

George Shepperson (1922-2020) was a British historian and Africanist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He is best known for his works on Malawian and African American history. One of his early scholarly works on African history was Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915 (Edinburgh, 1958).

Acquisition Information

Presented by Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, October 1958, 1962, 1963.

Wis Mss NJ Box   1 Folder   1	John Chilembwe, Providence Industrial Mission, Chiradzulu, Blantyre, letter to Joseph Booth, unknown place, 1911 June 11 Physical Description: Photostatic copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges receipt of an English syllable roll; large church is being built to hold the congregation; acknowledges the desire to change Sunday into the Sabbath, but doubts that both days are necessary to save the soul.
Box   1 Folder   1	African Industrial Society pamphlet, 1911 August? Physical Description: Document : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Pamphlet explains the Nyasa leaders desire the formation of an industrial society that will improve economic conditions in the area. Note in Joseph Booth's writing identifies Chilembwe as his first convert and attests to the large number of African typesetters and printers in Nyasaland.
Box   1 Folder   1	Joseph Booth, Church of Christ, Seventh Day Baptist Mission House, Sea Point, Cape Town, letter to the Pastors and Evangelists of the Church of Christ, Nyasaland, East Central Africa, 1911 September 21 Physical Description: 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Booth quotes from American letters to show the controversies over giving more aid to missions in Nyasaland and sending an African to investigate the condition of the missions. Handwritten note from Booth urges Moore not to bring his family to Africa immediately.
Box   1 Folder   1	Charles Domingo, Emanyelani, Chipata, letter to Joseph Booth?, 1911 September 22 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed, incomplete (missing page 1) : 5 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has employed workers to build cottages in Chipata and is trusting in God alone to be his supporter; is trying to make Chipata the chief station, but he needs help; money does not allow men to enter Heaven, but, properly used, can glorify God; needs cash immediately to finish the Church and asks why Sabbathers in the United States don't send help; if a white resident came to Nyasaland “many things would follow,” because “natives are considered to be incompetent dogs.” Superimposed note by Booth Avers, “These spare pages will show you something of the native mind. He was one of the earliest Christians in Nyasaland.”
Box   1 Folder   1	Malaske Zenile Ntlonga, British Concession, Chinde, East Africa, letter to Brother Joseph Booth?, unknown place, 1911 December 29 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: A student of Elliott Kamwana wishes to join the mission and study under Domingo; this must be kept secret from Kamwana who must be won back; neither the English language nor education is necessary for being a preacher; if the Nyassa preachers receive money, all will be well.
Box   1 Folder   1	Malaske Zenile Ntlonga, British Concession, Chinde, East Africa, letter to Pastor Edwin Shaw, unknown place, 1912 January 7 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer was stopped in his journey because of the sedition of Booth and Kamwana; Kamwana is deceived by the teachings of Russell and has turned against the Sabbath; Tandu left due to Russell's teaching and is now preaching because he was promised money; was sent by Booth to avoid the American man; Booth is too changeable in his teaching.
Box   1 Folder   1	Archibald Scott Bismark, Shiloh, Chikunda, Blantyre, letter to Pastor Joseph Booth, Sea Point, Cape Town, 1912 February 13 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 3 pages  Scope and Content Note: Since being sent to the Lunzu Church, writer has baptised fifteen members, but is very badly in need of a Bible, food, and clothing; has ignored the demands of a Scottish missionary to stop preaching.
Box   1 Folder   1	Alexander Makwinja, Salisbury, Rhodesia, letter to Pastor Joseph Booth, unknown place, 1912 March 15 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer wants train fare for himself, Mzakaline, and Chigueahigwala so that they all may meet him; gives instructions for finding his whereabouts in Salisbury.
Box   1 Folder   1	Joel Alongwe, Chinde, letter to Joseph Booth, unknown place, 1912 March 22 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer reports the severe illness of Ntlonga and the need for someone to care for him.
Box   1 Folder   1	Archibald Scott Bismark, Seventh Day Baptist Church of Christ, Shiloh Station, Blantyre, letter to Pastor Joseph Booth, Sea Point, Cape Town, 1912 March 26 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges receipt of the books and postal order; glad to hear that the American will visit the African Sabbath Churches; membership in the Lunzu Church is increasing; is sending a hymn book to be printed in Chinyanja and languages; wishes a pair of spectacles and Makwinja's address.
Box   1 Folder   1	Joel Alongwe, Shiloh Station, Chikunda, letter to Pastor Joseph Booth, unknown place, 1912 April 20 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer arrived yesterday to tell the Brothers of Ntlonga's death; the Brother here is hurt and unable to preach, and the Church and house have fallen down; is leaving for home tomorrow.
Box   1 Folder   1	Archibald Scott Bismark, Shiloh Station, Chikunda, letter to Pastor Joseph Booth, Cape Town, 1912 April 20 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the buildings at Shiloh Station have fallen down, and there are no school facilities for those coming to be taught; doesn't know what to do, because the Brothers are just like babies and don't want to do the work themselves.
Box   1 Folder   1	Charles Domingo, Chipata, letter to Joseph Booth, unknown place, 1912 July 27 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer did not meet Booth at Blantyre or Fort Johnson because he had heard that other arrangements had been made; the station had been cleaned in anticipation of his arrival.
Box   1 Folder   1	African Sabbath Recorder, 1912 July Physical Description: 8 pages  Scope and Content Note: Detailed plea for more financial and advisory support from the Free Seventh Day Baptist Churches of Christ in the United States.
Box   1 Folder   1	N.O. Moore, Zomba, letter to The Deputy Governor, Nyasaland Protectorate, unknown place, 1912 August 1 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer has been sent to Nyasaland by the American Seventh Day Baptists to investigate Joseph Booth's missionary activities and wishes to know the truth about his conduct and the reason for his expulsion; Booth has been subsidized to do mission work in Ntlongaland and Northern Angoniland.
Box   1 Folder   1	W.A. Elmslie, Ekwendeni, Mzimba, Nyasaland, letter to N.O. Moore, 1913 January 13 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer hopes that the Booth problem is over and desires to know the outcome of his case.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Plainfield, New Jersey, letter to Folks, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1913 December 11 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer will start for England on Sunday, but needs a letter from his home church to get a missionary license; intends to spend a week in England and thinks someone will accompany him to Africa.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, London, letter to Folks, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 January 15 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer is leaving for British Central Africa on January 16; has sent for $240 and describes the best way to send money to Africa; asks if letter from the Church has been sent to E. Shaw.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Chinde, East Coast Africa, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 March 12 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges notification of his father's death and gives advice on the disposal of property.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 April 22 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer had an attack of fever, but recuperated at a planter's home; describes terrain around Blantyre; has two African servants and some thirty communicants; “natives are very dull, but are anxious to learn”; food plentiful and cheap; expects to go to Fort Johnson soon.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 June 15 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer received a postal order from Richardson, but is having trouble cashing it; needs to get away from the mission for awhile “because it is not good for natives to see too much of a whiteman”; the Africans think all white men are rich; has spent a week at an African village and plans to visit the Adventist mission; describes his visit with Richardson; wishes he had waited in London for the money and sends instructions for mailing it.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 July 18 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has gotten no money, but is still comfortable; has received the Bible and will give it to James; Konigmacher is going to Rhodesia; is trying to start a school in a near-by village, and if the local people help, the Government can't interfere; Seventh Day Adventists use the same apostating tactics as they use in the United States; several Africans want Booth back; he told them that the Americans would take Nyasaland from the British.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 July 30 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has received money from Colonel Richardson and will use it to go to Bandawe which will be a long and difficult journey; may return in December; has not received any money from the missionary society; anticipates difficulty in getting enough boys to carry his provisions; each boy will carry about fifty pounds and will receive about $1.25 per month.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Mzimba, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 August Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 6 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer left Blantyre on August 6 with nine boys but had trouble keeping them; preached a funeral sermon at Uchinda; relates details of the trip; Dr. Prentice of the Scottish Free Church claimed that Domingo was untrustworthy; expects trouble with the Germans in Nyasaland; the English sank a German gunboat on Lake Nyasa, and then the Germans took an English station; provisions are being cut off by the war; the boys here are untrustworthy.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Mzimba, Nyasaland, letter to Dr. Theo L. Gardiner, Plainfield, New Jersey, 1914 September 20 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer reached Mzimba after an interesting trip and visited Domingo's school; a week later moved to Garela, former home of N.O. Moore and the center of the Seventh Day Baptists largest group of missions; many people understand that there is a difference between the Seventh Day Baptists and the Watch Tower and have remained faithful; the only way to understand the African is to love him.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Mzimba, Nyasaland, letter to mother and sister, 1914 October 10 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Zombra, Nyasalnd, letter to sister, 1914 October 20 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 7 pages
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1914 December 26 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 6 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the country is ruled by a despot; intends to leave when the rains stop; had trouble cashing a check drawn on a German bank in New York “one would think that the English were fighting the whole German race all over the world;” has been barred from Angoniland; bolder skirmishes are continuing between the Germans and English, and a rebellion in South Africa has arisen; the Africans are completely ignorant of what is happening; very strict censorship is in effect, and a Blantyre newspaper was seized.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1915 January 27 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 3 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the insurrection is occurring in Blantyre; thirty Africans stole weapons and raided a plantation, killing or kidnapping the occupants, but soldiers now have them surrounded; the trouble seems to have started at a mission which was founded by Joseph Booth; the insurrection seems directly traceable to the Watch Tower Doctrine and Russellite teachings; authorities will try to stamp out Ethiopianism and probably will not allow any African to have a school of his own; is being blamed by some for causing the trouble and expects a reaction against missions which give the Africans special privileges and treat them as equals; a Catholic priest was wounded also.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Mother and Sister, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1915 February 28 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed? and photostatic copy : 3 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the insurrection is over, the leaders have been executed, and some are now blaming the missionaries; expects to be questioned; the cause of the trouble was fanaticism and discontent; the government is resorting to censorship and martial law and wishes to stop religious papers from coming in; fears that religious freedom is doomed; the Blantyre newspaper is attacking missions and the Adventists and is hinting that some Americans helped incite the revolt; African Americans are especially hated.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to Perry Niskern, Berlin, Wisconsin, 1915 March 11 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 5 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer is unable to write freely at this time; before the war there was great animosity between Germans and English over the East Coast trade; uprising at Blantyre caused by religious madness; has been accused of spying and teaching sedition; English and Europeans take a dim view of Americans; the English government is closing some schools and churches and seems to intend abolishing religious freedom; deserves the government's thanks for trying to prevent the uprising.
Box   1 Folder   1	L. Maggrudge, District Resident, Chikunda, Blantyre, Nyasaland, letter to W.B. Cockerill, Esquire, unknown place, 1915 April 16 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer forwards a letter from the Chief Secretary's office (1915 April 25 typescript); has received a warrant for his arrest and removal and proposes that Cockerill leave the protectorate on April 26; arrest and deportation will attend any resistance.
Box   1 Folder   1	Walter B. Cockerill, unknown place, letter to unknown person, 1916? Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the Africans want free use of the books and materials in the schools and churches; Johnson, an emissary of Russell, didn't understand this and failed; both Africans and whites are disgusted with the mission system of the established churches which are very corrupt; is unable to go on to Nyasaland; Kamwana, a good, “but misguided native,” is at Chinde teaching from Russell's Watch Tower books. Possibly also dated October 1914.
Box   1 Folder   2	David Soper, Wesley, Beloit, Wisconsin, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1950 September 23 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 pages
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1951 September 8 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges letter concerning the Chilembwe Uprising; wishes to know more about the religious questionnaire required in Nyasaland and about Cockerill's arrest warrant; desires information about Chilembwe's connections in Louisville; wants to know why the askari were one cause of the uprising.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1951 October 3 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer will delay comments and questions until he is able to correlate all information; is looking forward to more information on Booth; the strands of religious involvement in the affair are apparent, but would like to know more about Chilembwe's contacts with the Watch Tower.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, 1952 January 9 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   2	Thomas Price, The University of Glasgow, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 January 13 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is collaborating with Shepperson on the history of the Chilembwe Uprising; was with the Church of Scotland Mission in the Zomba District and returned there last year to investigate the Rising; is well acquainted with the African and European viewpoints as well as the geography of the region; desires a balanced viewpoint of Nyasaland development now that Africans felt they did it by themselves.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1952 February 2 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says the mixing of Zulu and Ethiopian in Nyasaland produced peculiar situations, and the trouble would have come regardless of the Watch Tower teachings; Pastor Russell taught there was a second probation period after this life, but he did not believe in resurrection; Judge Rutherford changed the name of the sect to Jehovah's Witnesses, and its doctrine is now pacifistic; they flooded Central Africa with Bibles which carried their doctrine that Christ was to start the judgment in 1878.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 March 19 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer wants to know why the trouble would have arisen regardless of the Watch Tower people and why Cockerill was reported to be the instigator of the Rising; wants information about the Church of Christ Mission, Dr. Daniel Malekebue, and the Catholic Missions.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 April 7 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer is corresponding with Booth's daughter who lives in New York; his son died of malaria; wishes to know who in America would know about Watch Tower operations in Africa; Chilembwe's activities in Louisville are a tantalizing mystery.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 May 26 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer wants to see Cockerill's letters from Booth, because he was unaware that they were in correspondence; is unable to find the article on the Chilembwe Uprising in the Saturday Evening Post; wants more information on Bwana Hater and is interested in the story about marked men being pointed out by potted plants.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 June 19 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has already been in contact with Corliss Randolph who has copied extracts from the Sabbath Recorder; wants more information about Alexander Makwinja and the capture of the Watch Tower members; the British Church of Christ missionaries, Hollis, Bannister, and Philpott, were imprisoned in a military camp after “their natives,” who were involved in the uprising, implicated them.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 June 20 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Cockerill probably didn't meet the great Andrew Murray who founded the first mission of the Dutch Reformed Church, in Nyasaland; it was probably William H. Murray, chairman of the executive council and minister of the Reformed Church at Mkoma; needs comments on his previous questions.
Box   1 Folder   2	Thomas Price, Glasgow, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 August 7 Physical Description: Copy : 6 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that the British are currently interested in the American presidential campaign, the stationing of American Air Force personnel in England, and the record-breaking Transatlantic voyage of the ship United States ; Booth's customary pattern was to find a promising, but undeveloped commercial scheme, get help from a philanthropic agency, and then involve it in large scale expenditures without its knowledge; this is precisely the attitude of Europeanized Africans who wish to have promising enterprises turned over to them to do with just as they please; such egotistic indiscipline caused Booth's conflicts with state and church officials; he transmitted this attitude to Chilembwe.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1952 September 1 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that after he was deported, Booth never returned to Nyasaland nor was he ever given authority by the Seventh Day Baptists; later he conducted a school and taught “hodge-podge” Adventism; a miracle was at work during the battle of Karonga; the Germans had the advantage of numbers, but a delay enabled the British to catch them in a cross fire, and the African soldiers deserted.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 October 6 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that the quotations from the two 1914 letters throw light on the Kamwana Watch Tower situation; agrees that Kamwana was as much to blame as Chilembwe; is very pleased with the document relating to his arrest by the District Resident, because it was the first he's seen that showed the attitude of the officials; desires information about Hollis, Philpott, and Bannister.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1952 November 10 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges last letter; is getting married and will get pictures of the Iona Community later.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 January 10 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges receipt of the picture of Booth and the information about Leland Shaw; in 1897, Booth published a book called Africa for the Africans in Nyasaland.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 July 22 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer encloses article on the “Central African problem” and fears that bitter anti-European reactions will be stimulated by the Central African Federation; wants Reverend Barrar's address in Nyasaland and the photostats of certain letters; Kamwana's agitation prepared the ground for the trouble; has received information from Reverend Cheek, an African now living in Chicago who, in the early 1900s, helped Chilembwe found the Providence Industrial Mission.
Box   1 Folder   3	“Warning from Nyasaland,” / by Hugh Latimer published in the London Observer, 1953 July 19 Physical Description: Clipping : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Article decries the racial estrangement growing in an area where the indigenous Africans were formerly loyal and where race relations had been cordial.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 September 1 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer wishes to know in what sense the “well-known” Africans were how well known; has a magnificent collection of Chilembwe photos and intends to use Cockerill's material extensively; desires copies of the Sabbath Recorder in which there were Nyasaland letters; wishes to know how old Cockerill was when he left for Africa and who financed the trip; wants to know who told him that the northern tribes claimed descent from the Ethiopians and who was the source of the news of MacDonald's death; would like to have the names of the American tobacco agents from Virginia and the plan of the Chikunda mission.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 September 15 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges receipt of the information from Joshua Chona and the clippings from the Watch Tower Journal; no evidence exists connecting the Watch Tower people with the Rising or showing an organized movement to Africa from America; later, Americans were associated with Kamwana, but they broke with him after his trouble with the authorities.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1953 September 25 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 8 pages  Scope and Content Note: While staying at Chienga, writer received the summons from MacDonald who was very agitated and forbade his return; the Mombera chiefs at Chienga were greatly feared; was blamed by the Governor for “stirring up the natives;” the Presbyterians were teaching that there were two gods, one for the Sabbath and one for Sunday; gives permission to quote from any letter except those recent ones which will conflict with other evidence; had two articles published in the Sabbath Recorder and one in a Berlin newspaper; was told by Aron Mohango that certain people in North Nyasaland were Ethiopians who had similar views about the Sabbath; N.O. Moore reported MacDonald's death; doesn't know the names of the tobacco merchants and can't recall any rumors of impending trouble, but remembers that people around Blantyre feared insurrection and that the air was charged with uncertainty; Makwinja grew angry when Bwana Hater knocked off his hat, the symbol of his authority, and told him that they could fight too; blames the Scottish missionaries for the Seventh Day Baptist's troubles; is sending a picture but doesn't want it placed near that of Chilembwe or “any other rogue.”
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 October 13 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer sends the address of Emily Booth Langworthy, author of This Africa Was Mine; Ethiopianism was used to connote African primitive nationalism; is anxious to see the map of Chikunda and the photos of Cockerill.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 November 21 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer has received the photo of Booth and wishes to know if the owner of the picture has any information about Booth or Chilembwe; wishes information from the Negro Baptist Convention of Philadelphia which sponsored Chilembwe.
Box   1 Folder   2	Thomas Price, Glasgow, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1953 December 16 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Cockerill's information continues to be useful; is being kept busy by Mau Mau developments, the Central African Federation, and the Buganda Crisis; the situation will get better when both sides recognise its own scoundrels instead of only those of the opposition; the Kikuyu have done better than the others.
Box   1 Folder   3	Edinburgh Scotsman?, 1954 March? Physical Description: Clipping : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Reports of lectures given at New College Edinburgh by Dr. George MacLeod of the Iona Community.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 March 26 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Booth died in very poor circumstances; Cockerill's deportation was kept so quiet that many were surprised to learn of it; wishes to know the source of the information that Chilembwe lived in Maryland and Tennessee; there is no evidence that connects Chilembwe with the Seventh Day Baptists; has received identifications of people in the Booth group photo; encloses clippings of lectures by the Iona leader.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 April 5 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer will send comments on Moore's 1950 report; has a microfilm copy of Booth's book and wonders how Booth managed to get it published in the United States.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 April 16 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is pleased about the discovery of Cockerill's 1915 diary and would like to see it; is puzzled about Mr. Caverhill and Cockerill's “German friend Kestner;” has received more information about Chilembwe's activities in Virginia.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 April 27 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is anxious to know the address of Josephine Huntingdon who is also doing a book on 1915 Nyasaland; the National Baptist Convention is not willing to tell what it knows of Chilembwe; although Chilembwe's wife seems to have been African, she had strong connections in Louisville.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 May 5 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Cockerill's friendship with Kestner may have upset the government which was in a panic after the Karonga battle; has other diaries kept in Nyasaland during the period 1892-1917; the Church of Christ missionaries also received rough treatment after the uprising.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 May 25 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that the allegations against Seventh Day Baptist activities occur in the official Nyasaland Rising Commission Report; Hollis, an Australian friend of Booth's, was also deported; Booth, who joined the Seventh Day Baptists in 1898-99, omitted the details of his experiments with cooperatives and colonization in his book; Booth's connection with the Watch Tower began in 1906 when he met Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania and ended in 1909 after he had begun teaching that the Sabbath was the Seventh Day; has copies of Booth's 1899 and 1914 petitions; during the Rising, Booth was in Basutoland; he seems to have vacillated between the Seventh Day Adventists and Seventh Day Baptist faiths; his wife, who was a Seventh Day Adventist, stayed with him until the end.
Box   1 Folder   3	Edinburgh Scotsman?, 1954 May 25 Physical Description: Clipping : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Announcement by Mr. Littleton, the colonial secretary, of land reform proposals for Nyasaland.
Box   1 Folder   3	Edinburgh Scotsman?, 1954 May 25 Physical Description: Clipping : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Editorial discussing the existing land tenure situation and the agricultural conditions in southern Nyasaland.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 May 26 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer wishes to see the Africans' letters to Booth; the rebelling Africans decapitated William J. Livingstone, estate manager for the Bruce Estates at Magomero; there are parallels between Chilembwe, the German Anabaptists, and the English and Scottish regicides; Booth's daughter Mary was the offspring of his second wife who was of English or South African nationality; the official 1916 commission of inquiry does not mention Cockerill; Booth might have sent the Berean Bibles, but there were considerable Russellite elements in Scotland who also might have sent them; no newspaper has ever shown that the “tangata” system was a cause behind the uprising.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 June 26 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 3 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has sent information about the Iona Community, but there is no word from the London mapmakers; missionaries couldn't use sectarian arguments to force Booth's eviction, because international agreements granted full freedom to all mission aries in the area mentioned in the Congo Basin Treaties; the planters in Nyasaland never had much success growing coffee; although Booth's schemes weren't too well conceived, he was entirely for the Africans; will be discreet in using E. St. John's material and wants a copy of the prospectus of Chilembwe's African Development Society; although British officials had to listen to Booth's petition of 1899, the main result was to cause discussion of the legality of deporting him; charges of Booth's incapacity sound strange because he was very successful in business before he became a missionary; his British Christian Union of 1912 was a short-lived pacifistic group; wants to find more about Booth's attempt to set up a small industrial mission.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1954 July 10 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that in fleeing from Blantyre, Booth preceded his wife; a speaker at the Seventh Day Baptist conference of 1898 thought that Booth might be the uncolored Booker T. Washington of Africa; Booth was rejected by the Seventh Day Baptist membership because the people were depressed by the death of their great leader, A.H. Lewis; the people were “down-easterners” who did not like “Negroes” although many of them had helped slaves escaping from the South; because no one anticipated African American settlement in the North, it was easy to ignore responsibility for them in Africa.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 August 11 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer acknowledges receipt of the diaries and wishes more material from the College library; wants a full copy of Booth's article “Why I Abandoned Sabbath-keeping” because it shows his mental processes and helps explain his break with Chilembwe; contradictory evidence exists concerning Booth's American citizenship; dreads interviewing the woman whose husband was decapitated during the uprising; Booth's individualism, impatience, and sensitivity about his business ability caused his break with the Zion Industrial Mission; other missionaries charged that Booth “poached” on their converts, but he claimed that they left because of doctrinal reasons; is unable to find a contemporary Watch Tower Bible.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 August 17 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is sending two maps of Nyasaland plus an old copy of the Johannesburg Star.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1954? August Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer wishes information about Ronald Barrar who is doing mission work in northern Nyasaland; task should be easy as there is no privacy in Africa; the Seventh Day Baptists are sending Reverend David Pearson and his wife to Nyasaland; transcribes the “Story of the Advent Message.”
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1954 October 15 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has found Booth's second daughter in Cape Town and hopes that she will reveal his Seventh Day Baptist connections in the United States and Nyasaland; had a useful interview with Katherine? Livingstone, whose husband William Jervis Livingstone was killed in the Rising, and local Baptist sources have revealed the planned uprising in Ngoniland; George James is still a mysterious figure in the early mission history of Nyasaland, and the “Negro grapevine” in the United States has not yet tracked the African, Branch, who went with Booth to the Malamulo Mission; is writing a section on Cockerill and would like more biographical information.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 January 21 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer has received photostats of Chilembwe's letter and is sending Elmslie's Among the Wild Angoni.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 February 23 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that after Barrar started a mission near Chikunda, he fostered a break among his congregation by allowing polygamists to take Communion, and his whereabouts are now unknown; the Uganda affair is still unsettled, but the government will allow the Kabaka to go back under certain conditions; plans to write about Europeans who suffered discrimination and about Church of Christ missionaries who were mistreated; Josephine Edwards was helpful although she was more interested in Malinkini; the interview with Mrs. Livingstone was painful for her because she and her children were taken prisoner during the uprising; her husband, descendent of the great missionary, was beheaded in her presence; the slavery question did more to finish the Seventh Day Baptists in the South than did the Sabbath question.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to Reverend Everett T. Harris, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1955 March 20 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer sends a copy of Shepperson's letter of February 23; has tried to interest the Scottish historians in the general history of the Seventh Day Baptists as well as the Nyasaland experiment and has tried to be fair to all; they seem convinced that the leader of the uprising was not a Seventh Day Baptist.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to Westminster Book Store, Chicago, Illinois, 1955 April 16 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer wishes to know the prices of several books.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 May 6 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 3 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer recommends good works on American religious sects; comments on Billy Graham's English crusade and is surprised that the Church of Scotland is supporting him; doesn't know if Hollis is still alive; Mrs. Edwards is interested in Lakwinda Malonka who helped Booth and Chilembwe form an African Separatist Church; is puzzled about the law against white men striking Africans which was passed after the Rising.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 June 1 Physical Description: Copy : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that the quarreling between Presbyterians and Baptists is strange because their history is so similar; can't understand why so many people are against the Bible Sabbath, but the martyrdom of John James in 1661 has kept the Seventh Day Baptists alive; evidence exists that Aimee MacPherson of Four Square Temple fame committed suicide; the Zambezi Industrial Mission did not like Booth's establishment of a separatist mission which might have been the cause of the hostility; unable to recall who said that Livingstone was harsh with the Africans, but Barrar told him about the laws preventing “whites from striking natives”; “the Negroes were very proud, and the missionaries' teaching encouraged the natives to put on airs which irritated the planters”; a general uprising was impossible because the Africans were so divided; “colored people will be long in reaching the white man's level of civilization.”
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 June 28 Physical Description: Typescript signed and copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is getting good material about Hollis' role in the Rising from people in South Africa and Rhodesia who knew him. Post card.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 July 30 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer relates the story of a frightening night spent alone in the jungle; wishes to have the first copy of the book; most missionaries were ashamed by the uprising and didn't write of it in their diaries; most of the 2,000 Africans involved had come from the older, established missions; Chilembwe and his followers put aside moral obligation in order to accomplish religious aims; Russell's teachings and his doctrine of the second probation appealed to the Africans who did not know that other religionists holding similar views had failed years before.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 August 29 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has received information about Livingstone which will cause unhappiness among his relatives; Duncan McCormick's “Negroid characteristics” not surprising because Vikings and Norsemen took African slaves to Lismore centuries ago; Price is in Tanganyika on a Carnegie grant and is checking on any repercussions from the Chilembwe Uprising; an African minister told Price that the Germans considered Chilembwe their ally; Chilembwe-ite agencies may also have affected the Harlem movement because he had many connections with the United States.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 August 30 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: The widow of N.O. Moore will look through his papers for references to Chilembwe; a number of Seventh Day Baptist groups sprang from early sects in southern and eastern America; wants a guide book to Edinburgh.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to Reverend Everett T. Harris, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1955 September 10 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer notes that Professor Price, while on a trip to Tanganyika to check on Chilembwe repercussions, found that Chilembwe seems to have considered himself an ally of the Germans; Charles Domingo, one of the outstanding African preachers, was rescued from slave traders and sent to Livingstone Institute; after receiving an honorary degree, he started a mission and a system of schools in Chipata; he always enjoyed the full confidence of the Scottish missionaries and the government officials; Malekebu of the Providence Mission at Chiradzulu was educated in the United States and was connected with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association; the Nyasaland missionaries should do something about polygamy which is more acute than ever before; there are many angles to the polygamy problem.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 September 16 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Pastor Smith will be attending New College which was founded in 1846 for those breaking away from the Church of Scotland; it attracts many theological students.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 October 2 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Pastor Smith and his family are comfortably settled but will miss central heating as all Americans do.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 October 16 Physical Description: Copy : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer quotes from the Watch Tower doctrine concerning Hell, resurrection, and the second probation; transcribes letter from Mrs. N.O. Moore who has found more Booth-Chilembwe material, but who fears that its publication would stir up trouble once more; Mrs. Moore seems suspicious so the writer has not asked to see her papers; Barrar is presently running a first grade school near Mmwana; it is difficult to get permission to teach the upper grades, because the authorities are hampering missionary activities; the New Port Church in Rhode Island is a shrine for Seventh Day Baptists who make a yearly pilgrimage there.
Box   1 Folder   2	Mary W. Moore, Riverside, California, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 October 24 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to Reverend Leon M. Maltby, Editor, Sabbath Recorder, Plainfield, New Jersey, 1955 November 13 Physical Description: Copy : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer began to build a church in Northern Nyasaland which was the center of the Seventh Day Baptist activities; in the southern part, which is more heavily populated, the Africans run from one mission to another whenever they see an advantage; relates the history of the Zulu migration and the sources of their religion; was present in Karonga during the battle and thinks that Chilembwe might have killed all the whites if he had had full support from the Africans; ascribes the causes of World War I to the British greed for gold in German East Africa and the German monopoly of the East African trade; greatest cause of the Rising was the doctrine that the world would come to an end in 1914; although Booth used the Watch Tower Bibles, the “native problem” was inevitable, and it was convenient to have someone to blame; this revolt was the only one that had a Christian background.
Box   1 Folder   2	Mary W. Moore, Riverside, California, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1955 November 18 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Shepperson is asking for documents relating to Chilembwe and insists that the work will be academic, not political; writer fears that stirring up the past might cause trouble; the whole problem was caused by Booth's combining Russellism with Sabbatarianism.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 December 5 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer relates an interesting experience with a railroad conductor in Chicago; has received more material from Mrs. Moore.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1955 December 11 Physical Description: Copy : 6 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer sends transcripts of material received from Mrs. Moore: Letter from Booth, November 23, 1911, which recommends Chilembwe as one of the few Africans having the insight to act as a guide and interpreter and approves Moore's mission, but which doubts any white man's ability to diagnose the problem; pamphlet from Booth which tells of the Sabbath controversy, the confusion among the Africans, and which lists American Seventh Day Baptist protests against Moore's proposed tour of inspection. Transcribes letters to Moore from Elmslie and to Booth from Bismark and Ntlonga. (See entries of December 29, 1911; April 20, 1912; and January 13, 1913.) Copies, letter to Shaw from Booth: Ntlonga's visit strengthened the self-reliance of the Sabbath-keeping churches; white preachers in preaching an unattainable ideal make the “natives parasitic while unadvanced native ministers undervalue their resources and exploit their faith in an unknown outer world, thus undermining economic and spiritual self-sufficiency.” Encloses, letter to Moore from Booth discouraging his wish to live in Nyasaland. Booth's teaching of Russellite millenarianism was feared by the authorities, because the doctrine, which foretold the immediate end of the world, caused the Africans to anticipate the end of white rule; Booth sent Kamwana and Tandu to conduct mass baptisms. Transcribes, letter to Booth from Chilembwe. (See entry of June 11, 1911.)
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to Mr. Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 January 1 Physical Description: Copy : 6 pages
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1956 January 3 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Chilembwe's main headquarters was at Blantyre; writer recently met Mandah Chirwa, Nyasaland representative to the new Federal legislature at Salisbury, who reported that Kamwana was still alive; Price reports that the memory of the Chilembwe Uprising still remains in parts of southern Tanganyika; is interested in the radical scriptural quotation in Ntlonga's, letter to Shaw.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1956 January 9 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer is interested in Chilembwe's letters to Booth about construction of the Chiradzulo church and in any correspondence that would show consultation between them; Mrs. Moore was surprised to learn that anyone in Britain had read the report of her husband's trip to Africa.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 January 18 Physical Description: Copy : 8 pages
Box   1 Folder   2	Mary W. Moore, Riverside, California, letter to Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1956 January 22 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has developed an interesting correspondence with Shepperson concerning Mr. Moore's letters from Africa; Chilembwe, whom Booth brought to the United States in 1897, was sponsored by the Negro National Baptist Convention and educated at their seminary at Lynchburg, Virginia; is sending the rest of the collection to Cockerill.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 January 25 Physical Description: Copy : 8 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Price has tried to discover if Chilembwe ever went to German East Africa to contact the Germans; quotes from John Gunther's article and sends list of items received from Mrs. Moore; Booth seems to have started a movement in one place, made many promises, and then moved on. Writer continues to transcribe Booth's protests against the investigation being made of him and his suggestion that “money should be spent on more Bibles and Sabbath tracts than on investigations.” Quotes from Mrs. Moore's letters (see previous entries), and from John Gunther and Robert Ruark on African troubles. Transcribes, letter to Booth from Greenfield Makwinja reporting conditions at the mission. Copies letter from Alexander Makwinja (April 16, 1912) who reports that he has not received the Bibles and needs money. Writer thinks that Booth tried to lure Makwinja away because the American investigators were coming.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 February 1 Physical Description: Copy : 8 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer transcribes letters to Booth from Alexander and Greenfield Makwinja and A. Scott Bismark reporting conditions at the missions and the general need for money, and sends a letter from Domingo concerning the curriculum and educational needs of his students; Domingo was unable to pay the workers employed in building a storage house and thought it might have been unwise to have gone ahead without any money. Copies from the Sabbath Recorder give the views of a Seventh Day Baptist missionary who thought it best to give the Africans responsibility rather than charity. Booth wrote letters to Africans and condemned Moore who later confronted him with them; Booth also bought school equipment on credit which aroused much criticism; writer was green when he went to Africa and found himself in the midst of a maelstrom.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1956 February 22 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer might do a life and times biography of Booth once the Rising book is completed; still needs more Chilembwe material; wishes full copies of any letters about Domingo, and especially his letter mentioning Booth's sedition, because Domingo is an important character in the Central African Independent Church movement; Kamwana is now preaching in a Watch Tower school near Livingstonia.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 March 11 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete (missing pages 1-2.) : 6 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer sends excerpts from Moore's report of Booth's conduct of church business and transcribes Domingo's letter of July, 27, 1912 (see previous entry). Domingo's letter of March 12, 1912, complains that the Watch Tower schools, by not charging fees for books and tuition, are causing trouble for the Seventh Day Baptist missions and that Seventh Day Baptist teachers have not been paid in over a year. Copies a, letter to Booth from Joseph Chigowo complaining that Russellite teachers were luring away his converts and expressing relief that help was coming at last. Transcribes letter from Andrew Amhone which reports that the latest shipment of Bibles were in the wrong language and advises Booth not to read any letters written to him by unknown persons who may “wish to destroy the Lord's work.” Although Booth unfortunately raised political issues in his Africa for Africans, he opened a path for others to follow in Africa.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1956 August 19 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer has just finished a long article on American Reconstruction; although he has finished the Chilembwe book, he is still looking for a publisher and hopes that the bad state of affairs in Africa will not jeopardize its publication; there are some interesting African independent church movements in Basutoland and Barotseland; before he was deported, Booth was operating a mission in Basutoland.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1956 November 10 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer recently found a puzzling note concerning the loan of a book and some sugar and thinks it might refer to Kestner; has read the Sabbath Recorders through 1912 but has found nothing more of interest; the cause of the decline of the German Seventh Day Baptists in America was the reaction of the young people to celibacy; read an article claiming that belligerent, legalistic fundamentalism was dying.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1957 January 1 Physical Description: Copy : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says that Pastor Smith is presently teaching philosophy at Milton College; Mrs. N.O. Moore recently suffered a beating at the hands of an intruder.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1957 April 23 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer feels a personal loss by the death of Emily Booth Langworthy who shared her father's wanderings; the Chilembwe book is still at the publishers.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1957 December Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer relates details of the abortive attack on Mandala, Nyasaland, in January, 1915; on the same day the rebels also attacked a Catholic mission but were beaten off by a powerful priest; John Chilembwe and his followers were more successful in raiding the Bruce Estates; after cutting off the head of Livingstone, they carried it to the church altar and mockingly worshipped it; Chilembwe was later captured and killed.
Box   1 Folder   2	Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, letter to George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1958 April 20 Physical Description: Copy, incomplete : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer transcribes portions of his letters of March 12, January 27, and July 18, 1914 (see previous entries).
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1958 June 25 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer says he is presently in Northumberland on vacation; book still in printing; will send him a very early copy. Post card.
Box   1 Folder   2	George Shepperson, Edinburgh, Scotland, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1958 August 1 Physical Description: Typescript signed : 2 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has sent a copy of his book on the Rising and refers Cockerill to the pages on which he has acknowledged his material; intends starting a biography of Booth and would like any further information about him.
Box   1 Folder   2	Mary W. Moore, Riverside, California, letter to Walter B. Cockerill, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, 1958 October 24 Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 4 pages  Scope and Content Note: Writer has sent an African Industrial Society pamphlet; would like to have her husband's letters printed; Booth's involvement with the Africa for Africans movement was the reason why the Seventh Day Baptists dropped him from denominational work; fears bringing the trouble to the foreground again, because the present mission is very near the old one which was started by Booth.
Box   1 Folder   3	Clippings
Box   1 Folder   4	African language script, undated Language: In Chinyanja, per letter from Cockerill to Leslie H. Fishel of the Historical Society, March 22, 1964. Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 8 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Biographical sketches of early Baptist leaders John Trask, Theophilius Brabourne, and Hamlet Jackson, undated Physical Description: Typescript : 3 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Joseph Booth biographical sketch by Walter B. Cockerill, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 12 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Joseph Booth photograph, undated
Box   1 Folder   4	Call numbers of radio stations in Wisconsin and Illinois, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 2 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Dictionary of Chinjanja language, words beginning in A, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 2 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Itinerary of Cockerill's trip to Africa, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	Elliot Kenan Kamwana eulogy plus request that John Chilembwe's? letters be published, circa 1956 Physical Description: Typescript, fragment : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	Missions, undated Physical Description: Typescript : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Includes discussion of the white control over Nyasaland, the Chilembwe Uprising, and the continued existence of the Seventh Day Baptist missions.
Box   1 Folder   4	Missions and missionaries list, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 2 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Missions, number of members in various congregation of, in Nyasaland, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	Obituary of the former Scottish weaver who became one of the “greatest native Christians in Africa,” undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	W.W. Olfan note about his meeting with Branch, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	Reminiscences of Africa and observations of John Chilembwe and African missionaries, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript draft : 8 pages
Box   1 Folder   4	Seventh Day Baptist churches listed on the Nyasaland map, undated Physical Description: Typescript : 1 page
Box   1 Folder   4	Unknown correspondent to Walter B. Cockerill, unknown place, undated Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed : 1 page  Scope and Content Note: Writer thanks him for book and sugar; lack of mail is driving R. to distraction, and writer urges Cockerill to help him.
Box   1 Folder   5-12	Miscellaneous additions, circa 1960-circa 1969