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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]