Papers regarding Prothero's research into John Hippisley.

Includes correspondence between Prothero and various libraries and archives, Margaret Priestley/Bax, Professor J. D. Fage, Professor John Iliffe, Dr. David Henige, the editor of the Population and Development Review, Dr Elizabeth Baigent, and Kate Percy; photocopies of articles by others; photocopies of Hippisley's work; drafts of an Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Hippisley by Prothero (with associated correspondence); drafts of Prothero's paper 'John Hippisley on the Populousness of Africa. A Comment' (published in POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, 1998).