Letters to Basil Williams, 1914-1920 (1934)
Also, one unfoliated item. Correspondents include:
- Louisa Rhodes
- Dougal Malcolm
- H.H. Johnston
- F.C. Selous
- L.S. Jameson
- Sidney Mendelsohn
- Herbert Baker (plus reminiscences)
- Flora Lugard
- Rudyard Kipling
- Graham Bower (plus reminiscences)
- Robert Williams (see notebook 6)
- F.J. Newton
- Lionel Phillips
- John Harris
- F.H. Hall (Oriel College)
- Violet Carruthers (sister of Arthur Markham)
- L.S. Amery (plus copes of selected Colonial Office papers)
- John X. Merriman
- Governor-General of Australia, 1914 [Sir R.. Ferguson?]
- Geoffrey Dawson (Rhodes Trust)
- F.J. Berkeley (see notebook 4)
- Edward Clarke
- Eleanor Alexander.
Also, extracts from the diary of the Hon. H.F. Wilson (1900) and an article by Basil Worsfold on the Rhodes family at Bishop's Stortford, with a covering letter (1934). Many of the letters are concerned with plans to meet for discussions, but most contain reminiscences of Rhodes. Also contains press cuttings relating to proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council relating to the ownership of unalienated land in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) (Apr/May 1918), with a printed copy of the Committee's report (29 Jul) and a review of Albert Grey, A Last Word by Harold Begbie (London, 1917).
Dates
- Creation: 1914-1920 (1934)
Extent
131 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Afr. s. 134, folder 1
Repository Details
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