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Box 606754993

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Contains 6 Results:

Accounts of personal experiences in Africa, 1943-1944

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With two unfoliated items. Comprises: (item 1) appointments diary containing outlines for biographical accounts of Wilkie's wartime experiences in East Africa: 'In the Wake of the Conquerors' and 'Madagascar M----'; with a typed story 'An eleventh tale of Madagascar', [1943] (fols. 1-9) handwritten 'personal diary' recording Wilkie's impressions on first reaching Kilifi; with typed notes...
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates: 1943-1944

Miscellaneous Papers, 1943; 1952-1953

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With three unfoliated items. Comprises: (fol. 1) list of Chiefs' salaries, n.d. (fol. 2) cyclostyled sheet in Swahili concerning Kilifi district Giriama Local Native Council, n.d. (item 1) 'Random hints for a Cadet on his first appointment to Kenya Colony' by an unidentified member of the Kenya Administration, pp. 8, n.d. (fols. 3-5) typed notes on (i)...
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: 1943; 1952-1953

Kenya: biographical material and papers concerning Kenya, 1935-1953

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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 383/1
Extents: 5 folders
Dates: 1935-1953

Scrap book concerning Wilkie's career and interests, dating from his last year at school, containing photographs, letters of appointment, and miscellanea, 1935-1946

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Includes: newspaper cuttings about his career, the war, and post-war development in Kenya poems book reviews maps visiting cards theatre programmes ships' menus typed extracts from novels.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1935-1946

Papers from Wilkie's period of training as a Colonial Service Cadet, 1939-1945

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Comprises: (fols. 1-180) lecture notes on social anthropology, culture contact, Dutch education, African religion, and the Kipsigi peoples' contact with Europeans, 16 Oct 1939-19 Feb 1940 (fols. 181-188) essays by Wilkie on (i) the Fall of France and (ii) the part played by T.E. Lawrence in the Arab revolt up to the end of the Hejaz war, 17 Mar 1941 (fol. 189)...
Extents: 220 Leaves
Dates: 1939-1945

Letters to Wilkie concerning his career, 1940-1951

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Comprises: (fol. 1) letter from the Chief Secretary, Nairobi, to Wilkie appointing him as a Cadet in the Kenya Administration, 16 Sep 1940 (fols. 2-3) details of the post-war award of medals to Wilkie, n.d. (fol. 4) letter from W. Horne to the Secretary to the Committee of Award, Commonwealth Fund Fellowships, recommending Wilkie, 13 Dec 1949 (fol. 5)...
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: 1940-1951