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Add MS 89338/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003420873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003420866
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063389669.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89338/1
- Title:
- Diary extracts by Richard James Church while working for the Uganda Railway
- Scope & Content:
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1. Extracts made by Richard James Church from his diary for August – December 1896, probably sent by post to his fiancé Christine Church, in England. In short sections, on various sized pieces of paper.
- ‘Journey of the Kibwezi Survey Party of the Uganda Railway from Mombasa to Kibwezi. Aug & Septr. 1896’. Entries for 8 -18 August 1899. 5 folios.
- ‘Extracts from my diary 1896’. Entries for 17-September – 9 October 1899. 7 folios.
- ‘Extracts from diary, Kibwezi Survey, Uganda Railway, 1896’. Entries for 10 October – 5 November 1899. 7 folios.
- ‘Continuation of Diary of Kibwezi Survey Party’. Entries for 6-20 November. 3 folios.
- Diary extracts for 21 November -15 December. 6 folios.
2. Extracts made by Richard James Church from his diary for August – October 1899, sent by post to his fiancé Christine Church, in England. With two envelopes sent from Mau, British East Africa, dated 30/9/1899 and 29/10/1899 respectively. Description of railway work, hunting, discipline and punishment of African labourers, smallpox.
- Diary extracts August 1899. 4 folios.
- Diary extracts September 1899. 6 folios.
- Diary extracts October 1899. 6 folios.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003420866
040-003420873 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89338 : Letters of Richard James Church, railway engineer, British East Africa and West Africa, with other Church family papers
Add MS 89338/1 : Diary extracts by Richard James Church while working for the Uganda Railway - Hierarchy:
- 032-003420866[0001]/040-003420873
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89338
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1896
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1896-1899
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Church, Richard James, railway engineer, b 1862