Letters from Elspeth Huxley to Gervas Huxley, 1956-1963

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MSS. Afr. s. 2154 box 9

Letters from Elspeth Huxley to Gervas Huxley, written when one or other was travelling:

(file 1) - 4 Oct-13 Dec 1956: 41 letters from Kenya, where Elspeth Huxley was collecting material for her history of the Kenya Farmers' Association, No Easy Way. (43 fols)
(file 2) - 15 Jan-17 Mar 1958: 27 letters from Kenya, and one from Zanzibar, where Elspeth Huxley stayed on after the Huxley family had spent Christmas 1957 in Kenya. (50 fols)
(file 3) - 12 Oct-11 Nov 1958: nine letters from Woodfolds, Oaksey, Wiltshire when Gervas Huxley was in Uganda. (12 fols)
(file 4) - 20 Jan-10 Apr 1959: 34 letters, mainly from Kenya, when Elspeth Huxley was collecting material for A New Earth, and from Tanganyika and Rhodesia. (36 fols)
(file 5) - 16 Feb-1 May 1960: 33 letters from Central Africa, where Elspeth Huxley was serving on the Monckton Commission: including an enclosure from Michaela Denis to Elspeth Huxley, 29 Mar. (34 fols)
(file 6) - 29 Jan-18 Feb 1961: nine letters from Woodfolds, Oaksey, Wiltshire, when Gervas Huxley was in South Africa. (9 fols)
(file 7) - 5 Feb-13 Apr 1963: 23 letters from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, where Elspeth Huxley was collecting material for articles and book Forks and Hope; including a letter from Nellie Grant to Gervas Huxley, 10 Mar. (37 fols)