Letters home from Nigeria, 1901-1919, with other miscellaneous correspondence, 1933-1966.
Dates
- Creation: 1901-1919, 1933-1966
Extent
97 ff.
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.1845].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.1845
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 909
Biographical / Historical
Hugh Middleton Brice-Smith was born in 1884 and educated at Pocklington School, and Queen's College, Cambridge. He entered the Colonial Administrative Service and was posted to Nigeria where he held the posts of Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria (January 1909); District Officer, 2nd class (October 1917); and acting Magistrate (1921 and 1922).
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1296 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Custodial History
Deposited with the Oxford Development Records Project.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the library from the Oxford Development Records Project.
Subject
- Title
- Correspondence of Hugh Middleton Brice-Smith
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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