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Letters from Mary Henrietta Kingsley
19 autograph letters from Mary Kingsley to Professor and Mrs. E.B. Tylor dealing with various aspects of ju-ju and fetishism in West Africa.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1802
Extents: 117 ff.
Dates:
1896-1899
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Letters from Rowland and Clare Daniel (photocopies)
Letters from Rowland Daniel, to his mother and sisters, written on voyage to Cape Town, Africa, and on arrival in Mafeking to join the Bechuanaland Police Mounted Regiment (1898). Also, letters from Rowland Daniel (and some from his wife Clare) as Resident Magistrate in Serowe and Assistant Commissioner in Francistown (1906). Photocopies.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2015
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1898, 1906
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Letters from William Smith to James Robson, 1766-1772, mainly describing two journeys to Bareges, Hautes-Pyrenees and treatment at the spa
Letters from William Smith to James Robson, 1766-1772, mainly describing two journeys to Bareges, Hautes-Pyrenees and treatment at the spa.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6036, fols. 69-82
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates:
1766-1772, c.1900
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Letters home, in form of a travel journal, from Sir William Cecil Bottomley
Letters home, in the form of a travel journal, describing a journey to East Africa, up the Nile and through the Sudan to Khartoum. 1926-1927.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1806
Extents: 69 ff.
Dates:
1926-1927
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Letters to H. O. Coxe, 1856-8, relating to his tour in the Levant in search of Greek manuscripts
Letters to H. O. Coxe, 1856-8, relating to his tour in the Levant in search of Greek manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. d. 75
Extents: 143 Leaves
Dates:
1856-1858
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Logbook of Ascension Island kept by Captain William Bate
Logbook containing daily logs from Thursday 1 January 1834 to Saturday 31 October 1835. Each log gives details of thermometer and weather conditions and at the end of each is a statement of the number of gallons of water consumed by the garrison that day. Also included are records of ships calling at the island (including American whalers, English whalers, ships from Sydney and Van Diemens Land, and Royal Naval vessels), details about the extensive building work being carried out on the…
Shelfmark: MSS.Atlan.r.1
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1 January 1834 - 31 October 1835
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Manuscript journal of journeys through Switzerland, France, Italy, etc. by William Grimley
Manuscript journal of journeys through Switzerland, France, Italy, etc. by William Grimley, 1826.
Shelfmark: MS. 21115
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1826
Collection
Manuscript of Sir (Walter) Baldwin Spencer, 'Wanderings in wild Australia'
Manuscript of Sir (Walter) Baldwin Spencer, 'Wanderings in wild Australia'
Extents: 0.21 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1928
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Map of Panama, Central America
Map of Panama, Central America, 1854.
Shelfmark: [Maps] MS. G8 (106)
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1854
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Melliss Papers
Papers relating to St. Helena, comprising
Legal documents and correspondence, 1845-1857, between G.W. Melliss and Colonel Charles Hodson regarding the sale of Oak Bank House, family matters, and island affairs
Four letters, 1855 and 1863, to J.E. Melliss from civil servants about his affairs
Correspondence, 1952-1953, of H.J. Melliss relating to the renovation of…
Shelfmark: MSS. Atlan. s. 14
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
19th-20th century
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Memoir of Peter McEntee
Something for the Record, memoir, 1995, by McEntee of his life, including childhood in Kenya, war-time experiences in Kenya, Abyssinia, Madagascar, Ceylon and Burma, work in Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Belize, and for the Commonwealth Relations Department.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 544
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1995
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Memoir of Teddy (Z.E.) and Dorothy Kingdon
Posted in Tanganyika, 1930-1956, typescript memoir by Teddy and Dorothy Kingdon, with photocopies of drawings.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2255
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
[c1980-2000]
Collection
Memoirs of Ann M. Davidson
"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.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
[1963?]
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Memoirs of Captain H.J.C. Leland
Three volumes of memoirs, typed from his own note-book and diaries, and partly compiled from his correspondence.
Travels in West and West Central Africa, January 1897-April 1898 while serving in the Gold Coast Constabulary, with copies of letters and papers relating to the period in an appendix at the back of the volume
African travels, November 1898-November 1899
…
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2221
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
20th century
Collection
Memoirs of George Dudley Meredith, with related photographs
"Recollections of Days Spent in Africa": memoirs of life and work in the Gold Coast Survey Department, 1921-1946, with two related photograph albums. Typescript.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1921-1946
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Memoirs of Jon Wainwright
Typescript memoirs, c1991.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 548
Extents: 61 ff.
Dates:
c1991
Collection
Memoirs of Mabel McCorry
Three notebooks containing memoirs by Mabel McCorry (fl 1877-1963), probably compiled in the 1950s.
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1905-mid 20th century
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Memoirs of Wilfred J. Plumbe
Typescript memoirs, c1985, entitled African Morning: Adventures in Nigeria & Sudan.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2275
Extents: 249 pp.
Dates:
c1985
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Mid-17th-cent. translation of Francois de Boisrobert, 'Histoire Indienne d'Anaxandre et d'Orazie'
Mid-17th-cent. translation of Francois de Boisrobert, 'Histoire Indienne d'Anaxandre et d'Orazie'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 435
Extents: 212 Leaves
Dates:
Mid 17th century
Collection
Miscellaneous Papers of William Bollaert with a Printed Pamphlet by W.M.F. Castle
Miscellaneous Papers of William Bollaert, with a Printed Pamphlet by W.M.F. Castle
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1830-1887
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- 20th century 155
- 19th century 149
- 18th century 45
- Diaries 34
- France -- Description and travel 23
- Humanities 20
- Travel 20
- Italy -- Description and travel 19
- India -- Description and travel 18
- Diaries -- 19th century 17
- Travel -- 19th century 15
- 17th century 13
- England -- Description and travel 13
- Diaries -- 20th century 12
- Europe -- Description and travel 11
- Kenya -- Description and travel 11
- Nigeria -- Description and travel 11
- Tanzania -- Description and travel 11
- Africa -- Description and travel 9
- England -- Description and travel -- 1801-1900 9
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 9
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 9
- Letters 9
- Belgium -- Description and travel 8
- South Africa -- Description and travel 8
- Switzerland -- Description and travel 8
- Canada -- Description and travel 7
- Germany -- Description and travel 7
- Voyages and travels -- Diaries 7
- Australia -- Description and travel 6
- China -- Description and travel 6
- Egypt -- Description and travel 6
- Great Britain -- Description and travel 6
- Greece -- Description and travel 6
- India 6
- Oxford (England) 6
- Sierra Leone -- Description and travel 6
- Sudan -- Description and travel 6
- Travel -- 18th century 6
- Uganda -- Description and travel 6
- Voyages and travels 6
- France 5
- France -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 5
- Ghana -- Description and travel 5
- Hong Kong (China) -- History -- 20th century 5
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 19th century 5
- Literature 5
- New Zealand -- Description and travel 5
- Russia -- Description and travel 5
- Switzerland -- Description and travel -- 19th century 5
- Turkey -- Description and travel 5
- United States -- Description and travel 5
- Voyages and travels -- 19th century 5
- Antiquarians 4
- Austria -- Description and travel 4
- England--Description and travel 4
- Germany -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 4
- Hong Kong (China) -- Description and travel 4
- Hong Kong (China) -- Description and travel -- Views 4
- Italy 4
- Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel 4
- Photographs 4
- Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel 4
- Switzerland -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 4
- Women travelers 4
- Zimbabwe -- Description and travel -- Views 4
- Africa -- Description and travel -- views 3
- America -- Description and travel 3
- Asia -- Description and travel 3
- Colonial administrators -- Africa 3
- English diaries -- 19th century 3
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Fiji -- Description and travel 3
- Geography 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria -- Administration 3
- Great Britain -- Topography 3
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 3
- Jamaica -- Description and travel 3
- Japan -- Description and travel 3
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3
- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century 3
- Netherlands -- Description and travel 3
- Palestine -- Description and travel 3
- Panama -- Description and travel 3
- Portugal -- Description and travel 3
- Religion 3
- South Africa -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Wales -- Description and travel 3
- West Indies -- Description and travel 3
- West Indies -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Zambia -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Zimbabwe -- Description and travel 3
- 16th century 2
- 21st century 2
- Africa 2
- Africa, East -- Description and travel 2
- Agriculture -- Kenya 2
- Argentina -- Description and travel 2
- Art, British -- 19th century 2
- Authors -- 20th century 2 ∧ less
- Indexed names
- Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 10
- Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 4
- Borneo Mission Association 3
- Church of England | Missions | Borneo 3
- Bayley | Francis | 1803-1893 | judge 2
- East India Company 2
- Eton College 2
- Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
- Great Britain | Colonial Office | Officials and employees 2
- Grosvenor | Robert | 1801-1893 | 1st Baron Ebury | politician 2
- Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 2
- Pollock | Hugh Wykeham David | d 1973 | Colonial Service in Tanganyika 2
- Popplewell | Geoffrey Douglas | b 1904 | District Officer Colonial Government 2
- Selwyn-Clarke | Percy Selwyn | 1893-1976 | Sir | medical official and colonial officer 2
- The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 2
- University of Cambridge 2
- Walker | James Douglas | fl 1952-1976 | railwayman 2
- Acworth | Angus Whiteford | b 1898 | architect 1
- Africa Bureau | 1952 - 1978 1
- Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
- Allen | Arthur Louis | fl 1906-1913 1
- Archer-Burton | James Henry | 1850-1922 1
- Ashley | Francis Noel | 1884-1976 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Austin | Jean I.C.B. | fl 1947 1
- Bain | Alexander David Neal | fl 1926-1940 | Geologist 1
- Bain | Rena | fl 1926-1940 | wife of geologist Alexander Bain 1
- Baines | Family 1
- Baines | Sir | Jervoise Athelstane | 1847-1925 | Knight | Indian civil servant 1
- Baker | Mary | fl. 1813-1841 1
- Bannister | Henry Marriott | 1854-1919 | musicologist 1
- Barnett | Annie | d 1941 | nee Beeching, wife of Percy Arthur Barnett 1
- Barnett | Percy Arthur | 1858-1941 | Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers 1
- Barrow | William | Naval Officer 1
- Bate | William | d 1838 | Captain Commandant of Ascension Island 1
- Batty | Beatrice | 1833-1933 | Novelist and Diarist, author called Beatrice Stebbing 1
- Bayley | Elizabeth S | fl. 1890 1
- Beatty | David | fl 1899-1952 | colonial civil servant 1
- Beatty | Robert | fl 1856 1
- Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
- Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
- Beecher | Henry Ward | 1813-1887 | preacher and reformer 1
- Benguey | fl 1905 | Captain French colonial administrator | Ivory Coast 1
- Bennet | William | 1746-1820 | Bishop of Cloyne and antiquary 1
- Bevington | Elizabeth | fl 1789-1792 | Quaker preacher 1
- Bevington | Eric Raymond | 1914-2004 | colonial officer 1
- Birch | James Wheeler Woodford | 1826-1875 | Resident in Perak 1
- Birch | Sir | Ernest Woodford | 1857-1929 | Knight | Colonial Governor 1
- Birdsey | Mavis | fl 1970 1
- Birmann | Peter | 1758-1844 | Swiss painter 1
- Blackburne | John | 1754-1833 | MP 1
- Blackburne | Kenneth William | 1907-1980 | Sir | Knight colonial administrator 1
- Blackie | John | fl 1904 | colonial officer 1
- Bleakley | Robert James | fl 1937-1940 | Colonial Office cadet 1
- Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
- Bollaert | William | 1807-1876 | Author and explorer 1
- Bottomley | William Cecil | 1878-1954 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Bourdillon | Violet Grace | 1886-1979 | nee Billinghurst, wife of Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon 1
- Bousfield | Henry Brougham | 1832-1902 | Bishop of Pretoria 1
- Bousfield | Mrs. | Wife of Henry Brougham Bousfield, Bishop of Pretoria 1
- Boyd | Sir | Thomas Jamieson | 1818-1902 | Knight | Publisher and philanthropist 1
- Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
- Braham | Alex J. | fl 1898-1902 | colonial company agent 1
- Braham | John | 1777?-1856 | singer 1
- Bridges | Diana | fl 1927-1949 | wife of a member of the Nigerian Colonial Service 1
- Bridges | William Maclaren | b 1898 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Brinckman | Mary Alice | 1826-1901 1
- Brinkworth | Edwin Aubrey | fl 1946-1947 1
- British Association for the Advancement of Science 1
- British National Union Empire Farmers 1
- British South Africa Company 1
- British and Foreign Bible Society 1
- Brooke | John Charles | 1748-1794 | Herald, Antiquary, and Topographer 1
- Bruce | (Patrick) Craufurd | 1748-1820 | banker 1
- Bruce | Michael | 1787-1861 | traveller; lawyer and member of parliament 1
- Buckeridge | Nicholas | c.1625-c.1690 | employee of the East India Company 1
- Buller | James | 1812-1884 | Reverend 1
- Burgoyne | Cuthbert | fl 1924 | traveller 1
- Butler | Stephen Seymour | 1880-1964 | Major-General 1
- Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 1
- Byng | John | 1743-1813 | 5th Viscount Torrington 1
- Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
- Callcott | Maria | 1785-1842 | author and traveller 1
- Callcott | Sir | Augustus Wall | 1779-1844 | Knight | Painter 1
- Calvert | George | d. 1865 | rector of All Saints, Beeby, Leicestershire 1
- Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
- Campbell | Archibald | 1914-1994 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Campbell | Peggy Phyllis | fl 1939-1941 | wife of Archibald Campbell Colonial Administrator 1
- Cardew | family | 1842-1916 | colonial soldiers, officers and administrators 1
- Casey | Mary | fl 1950-1966 | niece of John Cowper Powys 1
- Cassuto | Moses Vita | b. c.1700 | merchant 1
- Castle | William MacCoy Fitzgerald | fl 19th century 1
- Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
- Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
- Chichester | Henrietta Caroline | 1798-1880 | née Fellowes 1
- Chichester | Joseph | 1792-1880 | later Joseph Chamberlain Nagle 1
- Chiswell | Richard | 1673-1751 | Turkey merchant and traveller 1
- Chiswell | Trench | ?1735-1797 | formerly Richard Muilman | merchant and antiquary 1
- Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
- Clark | R. E. | fl. 1848 1
- Colonial Forest Service 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 295
- Italian 9
- French 8
- Latin 6
- German 5
- Undetermined 4
- Arabic 3
- Danish 3
- Chinese 2
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2
- Greek, Modern (1453-) 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
- Catalan; Valencian 1
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Irish 1
- Hebrew 1
- Hindi 1
- Portuguese 1
- Welsh 1
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