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Seven pages of notes on supernatural events, including three pages describing the appearance of an apparition of Mungo Park to his sister, Mrs Thomson, in 1805-1806. There are two further pages addressed to Miss Erskine. The notes are accompanied by 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 72 (December 1962), including the article 'An apparition of Mungo Park' (pp. 1-3), which transcribes with notes the part of the document relating to Mungo Park.

Scope and Contents A volume presented to R.E. Ellison in February 1961 by the Executive Committee on behalf of members of the Kaduna-Zaria branch of the Historical Society of Nigeria in appreciation of Ellison's services to the Society. On the inside spine is a letter to Ellison from S.S. Waniko, 4 July 1961, with a photograph showing Ellison at the branch's Annual General Meeting. The titles of the essays are 'Some traditions of warfare in Northern Nigeria', 'The Islamic Brotherhoods in Nigeria', 'Nigeria -...