Diaries (typed copies), 1883-1957

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(fols. 1-89) folder inscribed 'Miss Lagden's papers', containing typed copy of Lagden's diary and notes (MSS Afr. s. 151-152) of his walk 'from Cape Coast Castle to Coomassie in 1883, shooting and collecting birds and insects' (MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 5, fol. 1); also, cuttings that include a contemporary account in the European Mail; later cuttings are concerned chiefly with the Golden Stool of Ashanti (Ghana). Letters from Rita Cassidy and Alan Hardy to Miss Lagden, 1956-1957, and notes, probably made by her, relate to a proposal that she should write an article based on her father's diary, 1883-1957
(item 1) diary of Lagden's walk: typescript, not identical with the above (27 pp.), 2 Nov-3 Dec 1883
(item 2) series of four articles by Eve Palmer on the diary, 1878-1879, of Mrs Charlotte Elizabeth Bousfield, wife of the first Bishop of Pretoria and Lagden's mother-in-law (typescript, 13 pp.), n.d.

Dates

1 folder

MSS. Afr. s. 209, folder 3

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