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            "value": "historical file; Mrs. V.E. Vowles;12 June 1974;Letter from Mrs. V.E. Vowles to Mrs. S. Leith-Ross:\nDear Mrs. Leith-Ross,\n\nI have been given to understand that you are related to Major F.H. Ruxton, C.M.G., who presented a very fine collection of Nigerian material to this Museum in 1931. If this is not so, please accept my apologies and disregard this letter.\n\nThere is in the library here a manuscript entitled Munshi Papers,* which appear to have been written mainly by an Administrative Officer, Mr. C.F. Rowe, during 1917-1918. Also included is some correspondence, dated 1912, in which reference is made to the expected arrival of a Captain Ruxton in the October of that year.\nI have assumed that this Captain Ruxton and Major F.H. Ruxton are one and the same. I wondered whether you could tell me when Major Ruxton first served in Nigeria and whether you feel my assumption is justified.\n\nWe should be most grateful for your help.\nYours sincerely,\n(Mrs.) V.E. Vowles\nAssistant Curator\n*29.10.74. Curator agreed that this be kept and might later be deposited with RAI [?], if Mrs. Leith-Ross\u2019 memories should go there.\n\nhistorical file; Sylvia Leith- Ross; 25 June1947; Letter of Sylvia Leith Ross to Mrs. Vowles:\nDear Mrs. Vowles,\n\nI must apologise for the delay in answering your letter of the 12th of June. I have been away from home for a few days.\nYes, Captain (later Major) Fitz Herbert Ruxton was my eldest brother. Unfortunately, my memory is poor and as a family, we never kept diaries and only a few letters so I fear that my replies to your questions may possibly be inaccurate.\n\nAll that I remember of those early years was that my brother was in Worcestershire Regiment. Finding military life dull in England, he was seconded to the Royal Niger Company Police, went to Nigeria and \u201clived chiefly on hulks\u2026\u201d. He rejoined his regiment for the South African war, was soon wounded and sent home.\n\nAfter Northern Nigeria had been taken over from the Royal Niger Company by Sir Frederick Lugard in 1900, he was again seconded, this time to the Northern Nigeria Civil Service. That must have been in 1901 or 1902. He was posted as \u2018Political Officer\u2019 to Ilorin and then to Arungu in Sokoto Province before being put in charge of what was then known as Muri Province where he would of course have had many dealings with the Munshi.\n\nAt first, his headquarters were at Amar, then at IBI. I myself was at Ibi with him and his wife about 1912.\n\nI knew the name of C.F. Rowe but cannot remember meeting him. He probably took over the Province from my brother when the latter was posted to Bornu shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. The Munshi Papers should be of some interest, now that the Tiv have so increased in numbers and importance.\n\nWhen next I am in London, I hope you will allow me to see my brother\u2019s collection. I remember him speaking of the Horniman Museum, hoping the few objects he had collected might be of interest.\n\nYours sincerely,\nSylvia Leith- Ross.\n\nhistorical file; Record form Ancestry.co.uk:\nRuxton had x 15 star Nigh and held the roll of  Off. 234\n\nhistorical file; The Development of the British Colonial Administration among the Tiv, 1900-1949 by David Craig Dorward;This article provides background information on the colonial administration of the region from which the object originates, and refers to the Donor\u2019s work as a Colonial Administrator in more detail.\nIt is available on Jstor: \nAfrican Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 273 (Oct.,1969), pp316-333\nhttp:\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/720655"
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