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Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of Dr George Pratt Insh, mostly concerning his unpublished biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.344
Dates:
Circa 1948-1951.
Photocopy of corrected typescript of Malcolm MacDonald`s "Ronald Stevenson: a Musical Biography".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10681
Dates:
1989.
Photocopy of typescript biography of Edwin Sargood Fry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7788
Dates:
circa 1929-circa 1980.
Photocopy of typescript monograph of James M Alston, "Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of Medicine and Botany at Edinburgh".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7577
Dates:
1980.
Typescript of Donald W Nichol, "Pope`s Literary Legacy: the Book-Trade Correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton".
File
Identifier: Acc.10837
Scope and Contents
Contains material not printed in the version published, 1992, by The Oxford Bibliographical Society. Includes photocopies of some of the original letters from various libraries.
Dates:
1990.
Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents
Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates:
1861-1865, 1955-1979.