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Reports, rules and regulations, manifestos, resolutions, statements, constitutions and addresses issued by the All Ceylon United Workers Congress, the Ceylon Bank Employees' Union, the Ceylon Federation of Labour, the Ceylon Workers' Congress and the Government Clerical Service Union.

Manuscript diaries of Melvill Keverne Trelawny Sandys as Assistant Government Agent in Mullaittivu (1922-1923) and Mannar, (1931-1933), Ceylon; subjects include visits to villages, court cases, land sales, settlement of disputes, public health, inspection of salvage operations after cyclone and tidal wave.

Memoir of TW Roberts, as office assistant, Magistrate and District Judge in Matara, Kurunegala, and Chilaw, Ceylon, 1902-1916; containing an account of the daily routine, comments on public health, comments on relations with village headmen and Mudaliyars (Chief Headmen), notes on the administration of Crown land and on the administration of justice.

Transcripts of interviews with various individuals, and questionnaires, on colonial administration in Ceylon, from research by Michael W Roberts; interviewees include Sir Hilary Blood, R N Bond, Edward Trevor Dyson, G H Ferguson, Sir Franklin Gimson, F Leach, R B Naish, T W Roberts, Walter Terence Stace, F G Stevens, A N Strong, C E Tilney, W N Williams and Leonard Woolf.

Administrative papers and conference papers for ICS Conference on Nigerian Government, 10-11 June 1976: including programme; list of participants; conference paper 'The Oil Industry and the Nigerian State' by Terisa Turner (Graduate Student, LSE); conference paper 'The Theory and Practice of Corrective Government: an attempt to see the Experience of Military Rule in Nigeria in Perspective' by Martin Dent (Department of Politics, Keele University); conference paper 'Problems of Disengagement, Gowon and Declamatory Demilitarization' by Valerie Bennett; conference paper 'Civil Servants Under Military Rule in Nigeria' by Henry Bienen (Department of Politics, Princeton University); conference paper 'Back to Civilian Rule in Nigeria: Alternatives, Blueprints and Timetables' by Anthony H M Kirk-Greene (St Anthony's College, Oxford); conference paper 'Nigeria: The Politics of Revenue Allocation - Recent Trends amd Future Prospects' by Sam Oyoubaire.