Personal papers.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Private documents belonging to an individual. For records kept by public officials or other persons for their private or personal use but relating to their official duties, use "office files."
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Sir John Kirk and Lady Helen Kirk.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9942/1-65
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir John Kirk GCMG KCB (1832-1922), physician, administrator, naturalist, photographer, and Lady Kirk, née Helen Cooke (d.1914).John Kirk was born at Barry in Forfarshire in 1832. After qualifying as a doctor in 1854, he volunteered for medical service in the Crimea and subsequently became Dr. David Livingstone's chief assistant on his second Zambesi Expedition, 1858-1863. In 1866 Kirk was appointed Medical Officer and Vice-Consul of Zanzibar. He became Assistant...
Dates:
Circa 1856-circa 1973.
Professional and personal correspondence of John and Helen Kirk; with reports and notes relating to the professional and research activities of John Kirk., Circa 1856-1925, 1965.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9942/1-20
Scope and Contents
Largely original correspondence, but also containing some copies. Includes research material related to Bibi Salimah, and the manuscript 'Arab History of Kilwa'.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1856-1925, 1965.