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Add MS 88864-88865
- Record Id:
- 036-000005505
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000005500
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000015.0x0000b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88864-88865
- Title:
- African Expeditions
- Scope & Content:
- Records of Burton's expeditions to East Africa with John Hanning Speke (the expedition to Somalia and to the Lake regions of Africa to search for the source of the Nile).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000005500
036-000005505 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88861-88877 : Burton Manuscripts
Add MS 88864-88865 : African Expeditions - Contains:
- Add MS 88864 : Notebook, used by Burton as his letter book for the East African expeditions, containing autograph drafts and copies of 38 letters…
Add MS 88865 : Correspondence between Burton and John Hanning Speke, with related correspondence. 1. ff. 1-20. Letters to Burton from Speke, some…
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- 032-000005500[0002]/036-000005505
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88861-88877
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
- 1 volume and 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1854
- End Date:
- 1872
- Date Range:
- 1854-1872
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Publications:
- Mostly published in The Search for the Source of the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton's unpublished East African LetterBook, together with other related letters and papers in the collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. (Roxburghe Club, 1999).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)