South Africa -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Archive of S.G. Dunn
Archive of S.G. Dunn
Extents: 1.40 Linear metres (28 boxes)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Collection
Archive of Sir Henry Miers
Archive of Sir Henry Miers
Extents: 0.31 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates:
1876-1950
Single Item
Article concerning diary of Mrs. Bousfield
Typescript copy or draft of an article by Eve Palmer, Journey to Pretoria in 1878: Diary of Mrs. Bousfield, wife of the City's first bishop.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2268
Extents: 14 ff.
Dates:
c1975
Single Item
Letters from John, Mary and Herbert Leigh
Letters from John I. Leigh (to his brother, Dr. Thomas D. Leigh) and from Mary Leigh and their children in South Africa (1886-1908). The letters describe the vicissitudes of an English settler's life, relations with the Dutch and the effects of the Boer War. Also, letters from John I. Leigh's brother Herbert who was in the tea trade in Assam (1885-1894).
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1731
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1885-1908
Single Item
Papers of Mavis Birdsey
"Sigh softly, African winds: a pioneering tale" (of Australia, South Africa and British East Africa). Typescript, ca.1970, with press cuttings, photographs, and correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1794
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
[ca. 1970]
Single Item
Papers of Phillip K. Saunders
Draft autobiography, c1945-1960. 166 pp., 11 photographs.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 552
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c1945-1960s
Single Item
Papers of Sir Jack Johnston
Recollections, typescript memoirs, 1997, of Sir Jack Johnston, covering his service, 1950-1978.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 555
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1997
Collection
Papers of W.F.P. Kelly
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]