Dorothy O. Helly Research Files for Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking

Call Number

TAM.161

Date

circa 1850s-1985, inclusive

Creator

Helly, Dorothy O.

Helly, Dorothy O. (Role: Donor)

Extent

12 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Historical/Biographical Note

Dorothy O. Helly (1931-) is a distinguished historian and (as of 2010) is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Hunter College and The Graduate School at the City University of New York (CUNY). She also has been involved with various academic women's organizations, such as Women Writing Women's Lives. Helly's best known work is Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (1987), which analyzes Horace Waller's editing of Livingstone's journals.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. Materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of photocopied documents and notes that Helly accumulated during her research for Livingstone's Legacy. Most of the documents are from archives in the United Kingdom, as well as some from archives in Southern Africa. The collection also contains copies of related scholarly works.

Subjects

Donors

Helly, Dorothy O.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Dorothy O. Helly were transferred to New York University in in 2004 by Dorothy O. Helly. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Dorothy O. Helly Research Files for Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking; TAM 161; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Materials stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Dorothy O. Helly in 2004. The accession number associated with this gift is 2004.022.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Boxes 3 and 4 contain microfilm.

Collection processed by

Michael V. D'Ambrosio and Daniel Michelson, Jun 2011

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Language: Description is in English

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Inventory

Note Cards with Handwritten Notes, NLS - Grant Papers, Livingstone Papers, National Museum of Zambia, The Waller Papers, Chronologies, Individual Papers some on Microfilm, Notes taken from Individual Papers, University of Witwatersrand: Mission Statements, National Archives of Rhodesia Materials, Letters and Depositions, South African Archives, Notes and Journal Articles, 1861-1961, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Individual Files: Devaux, Jules Jean-Paul, Evan-Smith, Col. Sir Chas., Huntington, Collis P., Hutchinson, Gen. George, Hutton, James E., Jephson, A.J. Mounteney, Johnston, Sir Harry, Kemall, Sir Arnold B., Kirk, Sir John, Lambert, Leon, De La Laing, Count, Undated

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Microfilm, Correspondence, Kirk and Stanley Files, Publications; Quarterly Reviews, Munger Africana Library Notes, Letters of Bp Tozer ed. G Ward, Additional Letters and Materials from the National Library of Scotland,, 1862-1976, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Microfilm, Publications and Testimonials late-19th Century, East Africa Letters, Conference Papers on Women in East Africa, Central African Missionary Diaries, Mailings from Libraries, Letters, Livingston Files, Undated

Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Livingston Letters, Waller Papers, UMCA "Occasional Paper", Proctor Letters, Newspaper Clippings, National Library of Scotland Files, Mrs. Ware's Collection, Mackenzie Letters, Miscellaneous letters from UMCA, Waller Diary, Central African Mission Reports, Files on Slavery, late-19th Century to early-20th Century

Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mailings, Correspondence Charts, Blackwood's Papers, Rev. Fortnightly and Isaac Taylor, UMCA Files, Northamptonshire Record Office Files, Wylde, William A. Papers, Strauch, Colonel Papers, Rholles House PIKE MSS re Masas'i, 1870s-1880s, inclusive

Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

UMCA Executive and Sub Committee Minutes, Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Land Tenure Information, Files on Malawi, Christian History of Africa, Working Papers in Southern African Studies,, 1850s - 1970s, inclusive

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rev. Lovell J. Protecter Files, Missionary Publications: 19th-Century, UMCA Reports, University Mission to Central Africa, Letters, Diary Entries, Sunday Magazine Articles, Journal Articles: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, UMCA Paper Reports, John Murray and Hoarce Wallek Publications, MacKennon Papers, Livingston Letters from Zambia, National Library of Scotland Files, St. Anthony's Files, W D Cooley Files, Dr. Livingston Lectures, 1850s - 1880s, inclusive

Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Stewart Papers from University of Capetown Library, Catalogue of David Livingston Documents, Pamphlets on Asian Labour Migration to Zimbabwe, Microfilm of Individual Papers, John Waller Files, UMCA, American Philosophical Society Grant and Application, National Archives of Rhodesia files (Stewart Papers), Unpublished Papers on Livingston and African Colonialism, UMCA Files letters from Bp. Tozer, Handwritten Notes, Archival Outlines, Photographs: Etchings, Drawings, and Captured Images of Missionary Work, Activity and Portraits in Africa, William MacKennon Papers (SOAS), National Library of Scotland Microfilm, Andrew Roberts Files, Africans Waller from Donald Simpson, 1860s-1985, inclusive

Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Handlist of the Papers of Sir Wm. MacKinnon, Baronet, A/S Report Volumes 1 - 2, Church Congress Files, Rev. Henry Rodney Files, 1850s - 1880s, inclusive

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Handwritten Notes and Letters taken from the Rhodesia House, British Empire Files, John Murray Archives and Correspondence, UMCA Archives, Missionary Reports and Publications, Journal Articles and Quarterly Reviews, UMCA Papers, National Library of Scotland Files, 1860s-1880s, inclusive

Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Individual Files: Lee, Henry Austin, Lister, Sir T. Villers, Long, James, MacDonald, John, Lorne, Marquis of, Maitland, W.I., Pelly, Sir Lewis, Sanford, Henry S., Stanley, Sir Henry M., Strauch, Colonel, Undated

Box: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)