"A visit to the King of Benin": a journal by Punch, then a trader in West Africa, 1889 (manuscript and separate transcript); with extracts from the diary of Antera Duke, an Efik slave-trading Chief in Calabar, 1785-1788, and a report on the native law of Egbaland, 1906 (typescript).
Dates
- Creation: 1785-1788, 1889, 1906
Extent
1 volume, 1 file
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS.Afr.s.1913].
Shelfmark:
MSS.Afr.s.1913
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 3814
Biographical / Historical
Cyril Punch, trader in West Africa.
Other Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1389 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
- Title
- Journal by Cyril Punch
- 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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