Including Herbert and Frank Rhodes. Comprises: (fols. 1-2 and item 1) diary thought to belong to Herbert Rhodes, with a letter from Robert Laws, Livingstonia Mission, to Cecil Rhodes, [1876?/1878] (items 2-6) items connected with Frank Rhodes, [1866-1905] (item 7) leather wallet stamped B.M.R., n.d.

Letter explains the circumstances in which the diary was found (26 Jun 1900). (In envelope endorsed by Georgia Rhodes.) Diary is 22 pages written on both sides. Dating is tentative and based on internal evidence in conjunction with the known movements of other travellers. The scattered entries, mainly in pencil, are often illegible, and in some places later ink jottings are superimposed. To avoid unnecessary handling and to assist with the more illegible portions, a transcript...

With a miscellany of detailed jottings dating from the Sudanese campaign, the Boer War, and a visit to Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe) after Cecil's death, when he handed over his brother's grave to the care of the Northern Ndebele chiefs and toured British South Africa Company property.

Found inside were Kitchener's plans for Dalham (see MSS. Afr. s. 1647/Box 6, fol. 1).