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GHR-KE-2022-00230 Registered

Mission station day-book

Maker unknown · 1903–1911 · Made in Kenya

Folios 14v–15r, showing entries for March 19071 of 1

Identification

Reference
GHR-KE-2022-00230
Object
Mission station day-bookVerified
Category
Manuscript, ledger or archive
Maker
Unknown
Date
1903–1911Documented (invoice, certificate or archive record)Verified
Made in
Kenya
Current location
Nyeri, Kenya (archive store)
Registered
20 Sep 2022

Physical description

Verified

A day-book of 212 folios recording daily station business, school attendance and correspondence received.

Height
330 mm
Width
215 mm
Depth
48 mm
Weight
1.64 kg

Method: Closed volume, measured by archive staff

Materials
Paper, iron-gall ink, quarter-leather binding
Condition
Fair — Some damage, losses or later repairs.Verified
Condition notes
Spine leather perished; text block sound. Corner loss to folio 15. Foxing throughout.

Marks and inscriptions

Front pastedown: pencil shelf mark “B/4”.

Provenance and custody history

Unverified claim

The custody history is incomplete

There is a period for which no custodian is documented. Gaps are shown in the timeline rather than filled by assumption.

  1. 1903–1911
    Station clerk (unnamed) Manufacture · Nyeri district
    Entries written over eight years.
    VerifiedSource: Dated entries
  2. before 1962
    Custody not documented Note
    Custody between 1911 and 1962 is not documented.
    Unverified claim
  3. 1962
    Highlands Mission Archive Trust Transfer · Nyeri
    Recorded in the trust’s accession register.
    VerifiedSource: Accession register entry 62/18
  4. 2022
    Highlands Mission Archive Trust Registration · Nyeri
    Entered on the register.
    Verified
Acquired by current custodian
Unknown

Inspections and verification

No physical inspection has been carried out. Facts marked Verified were confirmed from documentary evidence.