Accounts by Ellen Kathleen Fenning of the consecration of the Anglican Cathedral at Entebbe (13th September 1919), and her impressions of the country and people while on safari with her husband, Captain G.E. Fenning (DSO), Assistant Director of Surveys in Uganda. Also 2 circular letters (1921), dealing with her domestic arrangements and the difficulties of child-care in Uganda. Typescript and photocopied typescript.
Dates
- [1919-1921]
Extent
64 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
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Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.2144
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 1811
Biographical / Historical
Ellen Kathleen Ashdown married Captain George Edward Fenning in 1919.
Other Finding Aids
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Listed as no. 1140 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994(Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Listed as no. 1140 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994(Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated in November 1989.
- 20th century
- Autobiographies -- Uganda -- Entebbe
- Cathedrals -- Uganda
- Civil Service -- Uganda -- Colonies
- Colonial administrators' spouses -- Uganda
- Fenning | Captain George Edward | fl 1919-1921 | Captain Colonial Civil Servant
- Fenning | Ellen Kathleen | fl 1919-1921 | wife of Colonial Civil Servant
- Uganda -- Description and travel
- Uganda -- Officials and employees
- Title
- Typescripts by Ellen Kathleen Fenning
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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Weston Library
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