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Tanzania -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Leonard Heaney

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2271
Typescript transcription of letters written by Heaney from Tanganyika to his parents in England, compiled under the title Letters and Notes from Tanganyika 1929-1943.
Extents: 141 pages
Dates: 1929-1943

Diaries of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell

 Collection
Diaries kept as an Administrative Officer in Tanganyika, with detailed comments on safaris and other duties, covering Ufipa, Sumbawanga, Tanga, Lushoto, Korogwe, Pangani, Usambara and Mikindani, 1934-1941; with a complete set of transcripts.
Extents: 14 Volumes
Dates: 1934-1941

Letters from Hugh Wykeham David Pollock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.419
Letters home, from Pollock to his mother, whilst on colonial service in Tanganyika.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1923-1935

Memoir of Teddy (Z.E.) and Dorothy Kingdon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2255
Posted in Tanganyika, 1930-1956, typescript memoir by Teddy and Dorothy Kingdon, with photocopies of drawings.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: [c1980-2000]

Papers of Colonel John G. Mileham, MA, [1978-c1984]

 File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (185) (Box 11)
Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, script of a lecture by Mileham on Tanganyika and the 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles with transcript, [1978-c1984].
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates: [1978-c1984]

Papers of Dr. Peter Dundas Grant

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2265
Typescript reminiscences recounting experiences as a district medical officer in Tanganyika, 1954-1962.
Extents: 40 pages
Dates: 1954-1962

Papers of Helen L. Haylett

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2223/1-2
Papers, 20th century, comprising To Zanzibar and Back, a memoir by Helen L. Haylett of service in Zanzibar Protectorate, etc. from 1935 to 1961 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 2223/1).
Extents: 143 pages
Dates: 20th century

Papers of Hugh Wykeham David Pollock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2113
Correspondence between Pollock and his fiancee, Barbara Reckitt, while on colonial service in Tanganyika (1932-1933); letters of condolence after Pollock's death (1973); reminiscences of Tanganyika; 3 photographs of Tanganyika; and flight diary, Poole-Mbeya (1940).
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1932-1933, 1940, 1973

Papers of Joseph Sweeney

 Collection
Photocopied transcript of Tales from the African Bush, a memoir of Sweeney's service in Kongwa, Tanganyika.
Extents: 66 pp., 1 map
Dates: 20th century

Papers of Robert Coventry Hunter Greig

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2319
Diary, 1934; commission as lieutenant in the Palestine Volunteer Force, 1941; movement and permanent road passes for Palestine, 1946; biographical notes by his son, 1999.
Extents: 1 vol., 3 items, 1 ff.
Dates: 1934-1946, 1999

Papers of Sir Kennedy Trevaskis (1)

 Collection
Personal diaries, 1939-1942, 1958-1959, 1967-1968, including observations on Kenya, Tanganyika and Somaliland Official desk diaries, 1956, 1958-1964 Observations by Trevaskis on the ecology of Northern Rhodesia, [1939]; The Northern Rhodesia Journal, June 1950, containing articles on the region's history, natural history and sociology ...
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates: 1939-1987

Recollections of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell as a District Commissioner

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2156
"Random Recollections of a District Commissioner" by Geoffrey Popplewell covering his service in Tanganyika, 1926-1957. Typescript, 1990.
Extents: 166 pp.
Dates: 1926-1957