Sudan book, 1938-c. 1946 and n.d.

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 540

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Comprises:

folder 1 (fols. 1-34) notes for a book planned by Margery Perham and sponsored by the Institute of African Languages and Cultures on 'Native Administration in the Sudan', a letter from Dorothy Brackett about its possible publication by Oxford University Press; part of a report to the Institute; and notes compiled by Margery Perham when handing over the study to Alison Readman, with the latter's notes on what she had done and a list of her own drafts, 1938-[1946]
folder 2 (fols. 1-19) Margery Perham's bibliography, 1938-1943
folder 3 (fols. 1-52) notes on work schedules for the book, the historical background, the Sudan war effort, Mayall's Twenty Years as a Political Officer in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, on Islam, c. 1938
folder 4 (fols. 1-74) notes on the historical relationship between Egypt and Sudan and on her reading on Lords Cromer and Milner, with a short scheme of lectures on Cromer, n.d.
folder 5 (fols. 1-15) notes on Egypt and the life of General Gordon, some by Alison Readman, c. 1946
folder 6 (fols. 1-28) chronologies of the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, n.d.
folder 7 (fols. 1-8) schedule of stages of development in Sudan by Margery Perham, [1944].

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MSS. Perham 540

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