Letters from Geoffrey Bussell Masefield

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MSS.Brit.Emp.s.568

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Letters from Geoffrey Bussell Masefield (and one from his wife, Joy) while at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad (1934-1935) and as an Agricultural Officer in Uganda (1935-1945).

Dates

Creation: 1934-1945

Extent

218 ff.

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Brit.Emp.s.568].

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Shelfmark:

MSS.Brit.Emp.s.568

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 3163

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Geoffrey Bussell Masefield was born in 1911 and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He served as an Agricultural Officer in Uganda (1935-1945). He died in 2001.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as nos. 183 and 350 in Manuscript Collections (Africana and non-Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Supplementary accessions to the end of 1977 and Cumulative Index, compiled by Wendy S. Byrne (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1978).