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Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands

Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3381
Extents: 100 Leaves
Dates: 17th cent.
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Notebook containing travel diaries by Marianne and Minnie Naish

Notebook containing travel diaries by Marianne and Minnie Naish
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1548
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: 1848-1867
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Notebooks and Journals of the Rt. Hon. Sir Halford John Mackinder

18 notebooks and 2 volumes of typescript journal relating to the first ascent of Mount Kenya.
Extents: 20 Volumes
Dates: 1899
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Notebooks and Sketch-books of Sir William Gell

Notebooks and Sketch-books of Sir William Gell
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1804-1833
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Notes on Borneo and early mission work by Reverend William Howell

"Historical Notes" on the island of Borneo and early mission work [the Borneo Mission Association], compiled by the Reverend William Howell, ca.1928. Typescript, with original Chinese binder.
Shelfmark: MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.346
Extents: 65 ff.
Dates: [ca. 1928]
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Notes on Indian temples, with ground plans and photographic negatives, by Maj.-Gen. A. Y. Shortt

Notes on Indian temples
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 161
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: c. 1867
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Paintings in water-colours and oils of people and scenes in Ceylon and India

Paintings in water-colours and oils of people and scenes in Ceylon and India, 19th century.
Shelfmark: MS. Drawings gen. d. 11
Extents: 39 Leaves
Dates: 19th century
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Papers and photographs of Barbara Morris

Typescript accounts of journeys in Africa and through the Western Pacific, with four accompanying files of photographs, 1958-1959, 1963; typescript account of the political crisis in Uganda, 1966; Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map of Central Ruwenzori, 1962.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 453
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1958-1966
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Papers concerning the grave of Herbert Rhodes

Typescript notes, with photographs, describing the grave of Herbert Rhodes, by V.L. Bosazza, 1978.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2303
Extents: 10 ff.
Dates: 1978
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Papers of A.F. Gray

Typescript memoirs of A.F. Gray detailing his work as a Meteorological Officer in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia from 1951 to 1971.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2322
Extents: 2 ff.
Dates: 1999
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Papers of Alex J. Braham

A Pictorial Episode in the Life of Alex J. Braham, 1898-1902, with two contrasts, an album of photographs, descriptions and ephemeral items, compiled by Braham; with typed transcript of text.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2288
Extents: 1 volume (50 photographs), 20 ff.
Dates: c1902
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Papers of Alexander David N. Bain

Reports and memoranda on water supply, as geologist in Nigeria (1931-1938); extracts from informal diary (1923-1929, 1939-1940); letters home (1926-1938); maps of Nigeria; letters from Bain's wife, Rena (1931-1937).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1152
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1923-1940
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Papers of Alice Hammond

Typescript memoirs, [c1980?], of Alice Hammond of period in Kenya as nurse and housekeeper, 1934-1935.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2318
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates: [c1980?]
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Papers of Anne Barbara Russell née Whitworth

Papers of Anne Barbara Russell
Shelfmark: MS. 12792
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1802, 1812
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Papers of Arthur Donaldson Smith (microfilm)

Papers as physician and early traveller in Kenya (ca.1915-1920s), with catalogue of objects collected, and writings by Dr. Pascal James Imperato.
Shelfmark: Micr.Afr.590
Extents: 1 item
Dates: [ca. 1915-1929]
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Papers of Brian Parry

Letters from Parry, mostly from Miri, Sarawak, to his parents and to his wife Mary in Singapore, 1939-1941; three albums of photographs, mostly of Sarawak, but including some of Brunei, Sumatra and Hong Kong, and some depicting his period at school and college, 1918-c 1941.
Extents: 1 folder, 3 volumes
Dates: c1930-1941
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Papers of Cecil Audley Sacheverell Yonge

Album of press cuttings relating to Yonge's career in Natal, 1886-1910, with a cabinet photograph of Yonge and a packet of photographs of the Battle of Pieter's Hill (last stand of the Boers).
Extents: 14 items
Dates: 1886-1910
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Papers of Christopher Swabey

Travel diaries, correspondence, drafts for a history of the Colonial Forestry Service, memoranda etc. relating to work in the Colonial Forestry Service, and as director of the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, in Trinidad, British Guiana, Canada, Sudan, Australia, Jamaica, America, Fiji, Solomon Islands, North Borneo and the West Indies, with two memoirs on colonial service, 1928-1971.
Extents: 7 boxes
Dates: 1928-1971
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Papers of Dame Margery Freda Perham

Family papers, including journals and correspondence, [1881-1977] Papers relating to academic career, 1908-77 Papers relating to non-academic activities and interests, [1916-1980] Papers relating to publishers, finance, charities and disposition of archives, [1925-80] Correspondence, [1931-1979] Diaries, [1910-1980] …
Extents: 771 boxes
Dates: [1844]-1980
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Papers of David Beatty

Letters home from Canton and Christmas Island, with related photographs, press cuttings and farewell addresses, 1899-1954; transcript of journal of his father Robert Beatty's voyage to India, 1856.
Extents: 3 boxes : The farewell address, 1926, written on silk and originally stored in a wooden box, was donated to the library in a large frame format, with degraded paper backing. The Conservation Section of the Bodleian Library undertook limited drycleaning, minor repairs, etc. in [March 1997], rehousing the item in a card box and placing a hollytex sheet against the silk to prevent abrasion when rolled. Future plans for the item's preservation include flat storage and remounting of the silk with new borders by an experienced Oriental conservator.
Dates: [1856], 1899-1954

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Indexed subjects
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
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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
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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
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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
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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