"The real paradise: memories of Africa, 1950-1963", an account by Ann M. Davidson of her life as a District Officer's wife in Nyasaland (now Malawi), based on weekly letters to her mother. Bound typescript.
Dates
- Creation: [1963?]
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
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MSS.Afr.s.2168
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 1492
Biographical / Historical
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Listed as no. 847 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994(Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mrs. Ann M. Davidson on the 18 March 1992.
Subject
- Title
- Memoirs of Ann M. Davidson
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Marion Lowman
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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