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Papers of John William Ferris
Collection
Nothing to Declare, the story of his service in the Royal Air Force and as Executive Officer in Hong Kong, 1947-1967; Semper Paratus, the story of his service in the Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force; On the Record, a volume of Hong Kong press cuttings, etc.
Extents: 1 volume, 1 box
Dates:
[1947-1967]
Papers of Lieut.-Colonel Basil Maurice de Quehen
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2219
Notes by de Quehen on his early life in the Channel Islands, South Africa and Rhodesia; article by de Quehen about his experiences in the Middle East; photocopy of a letter to Mary Rixon (later Mrs. de Quehen) about Muyenyezi and the part he played in leading the British columns in the Ndebele campaign.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1997, 20th century
Papers of Major-General Stephen Seymour Butler
Collection
Typescript memoirs of service in the South African War, East Africa, Arabia, Egypt, North India, Sudan, etc., with photographs, sketches, postcards, letters, etc., 1899-1943.
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates:
1899-1943
Papers of Mary Marquand
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 99
Photocopied typescript and manuscript of Him now; a Solomon Islands honeymoon, reminiscences of life as the wife of a colonial officer, 1946, with part of a re-write, 1949-1950.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1946-1950
Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Collection
Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Extents: 157.0 Leaves
Dates:
1960-1996
Papers of Mike Bevan
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 359
Diary, 1941-1945, written by Bevan while interned in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong, 1940-1945 and typed up in 1965 from his notes; with copy of Sweet Waters by Lieut. John Gibson on the surrender of Hong Kong by the Japanese, [fron] Blackwood Magazine, January 1946, and press cutting on the surrender.
Extents: 22 ff.
Dates:
20th century
Papers of Patrick Brian Sweeney
Collection
Typescript autobiography and papers relating to service as a customs officer in India, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Somaliland and Aden, 1933-1965.
Extents: 1 volume, 1 box
Dates:
1933-1965
Papers of Ralph N. Mann
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. W. Ind. s. 50
Letters home, 1954-1958, with correspondence relating to research into the lives of Button Gwinnett, President of Georgia and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and of Elias Vanderhorst, British Consul in the USA (d. 1816).
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1954-1958
Papers of R.E.N. Smith
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2277
Six chapters of Smith's memoirs, c1987, relating to his probationer cadetship at Oxford, 1948-1950 and service in Nyasaland, 1950-1961; with curriculum vitae.
Extents: 58 ff.
Dates:
c1987
Papers of Revd. Henry Clarke (1)
Collection
Five volumes of The Journal of Henry Clarke, comprising a typescript version of an autobiography written by the Revd. Clarke with reference to his diaries of 1847-1897; two volumes of typed transcripts of his letters, 1855-1876; three volumes containing photocopies of his letters, 1877-1888.
Extents: 10 Volumes
Dates:
1847-1897
Papers of Robert Noel Turner
Collection
From the depths of my memory, reminiscences of service in Malaya, Brunei, Singapore, Sarawak, Barbados and Malaysia, 1912-1976 (photocopied typescript), with texts of speeches made in Barbados.
Extents: 3 Files
Dates:
[1912-1976]
Papers of W.F.P. Kelly
Collection
Diary of travels in charge of a mobile cinema, Kenya, 1944; three volumes of memoirs of service, Kenya, 1936-1963; four volumes of travel diaries, Kenya, 1981-1982, 1989, 1992, 1996; one travel diary, South Africa, 1990; report by Miss S. Brodribb Pughe on the wells of the Northern District, Kenya, 1962.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1944-[1996]
Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (2)
Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the life and career of Rhodes in Southern Africa, including a biography (Miniature series) by Ada S. Frost entitled The right hon. Cecil J. Rhodes (London: 1902).
Extents: 38 ff.
Dates:
1896-1902
Photocopied typescript of the Reverend Alfred Pott's Memoir
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6133
Photocopied typescript of the Reverend Alfred Pott's memoir.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c.1903-2005
A postcard of Elizabeth Jennings and an Oxford University Poetry Society performance ticket given by Ann Thwaite
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 104-6
A note by Ann Thwaite describing her gift of a 1958 postcard from Elizabeth Jennings a ticket for a 1953 Oxford University Poetry Society performance of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
1953, 1958, 2016
Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 56
Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Extents: 388 Leaves
Dates:
Printed in 1874-1878
R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 145
R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Extents: 79 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1874
Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. g. 3
Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates:
Written about A.D. 1821
'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 4
'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates:
17th century
Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 291
Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Extents: 44 pages
Dates:
1843