Box 606766491
Container
Contains 8 Results:
Notes for a speech on the disturbances in Palestine, in Blackburne's hand, 1938
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 460/5, folder 2, fols. 1-12
Article entitled 'Sons of the Devil' by Peter Macnab on the use of police dogs in Palestine, n.d.
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 460/5, folder 2, fols. 13-14
Letters from Blackburne and his wife from Nazareth; on leave in Cyprus, and on a boat returning to England, 6 Jan-7 Oct 1938
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 460/5, folder 2, fols. 15-199
Includes (fols. 193-196) on leave in Cyprus, (fol. 199) on a boat returning to England.
Extents: 185 Leaves
Dates:
6 Jan-7 Oct 1938
Two letters to Blackburne from colleagues in Palestine, 10 Jan and 3 Dec 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 460/5, folder 2, fols. 200-203
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
10 Jan and 3 Dec 1939
Letters written by Blackburne and his wife to his parents and her mother, 1937-1941
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 460/5
Letters from Nazareth, including news of the murder of the District Commissioner (DC), Andrews, in Nazareth by Arab individuals, 1 Jan-30 Dec 1937
folder
Including (fols. 178-179) on the murder of the District Commissioner (DC), Andrews.
Extents: 229 Leaves
Dates:
1 Jan-30 Dec 1937
Correspondence and papers relating to Blackburne's work in Palestine, 1938-1939
folder
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates:
1938-1939
Letters (mostly undated, but rough dates added later) written when Blackburne was working in the Colonial Office, with war news and work and domestic news, 1938-1941
folder
Including:
(fols. 43-44) possibility of Colonial Secretaryship in Bermuda
(fols. 54-55) another man given the post
(fols. 56-57) Blackburne to become Colonial Secretary of the Gambia.
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates:
1938-1941