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
- 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
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).
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).
- 20th century
- Agriculturalists -- Uganda -- Correspondence
- Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Masefield | Geoffrey Bussell | 1911-2001 | agriculturalist, author
- Masefield | Joy | fl 1934-1945 | wife of Geoffrey Bussell Masefield
- Students -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Correspondence
- Uganda -- Officials and employees
- Title
- Letters from Geoffrey Bussell Masefield
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
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Weston Library
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