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Notes for magazine articles, 1885 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/10
Scope and Contents
This file contains source material that Bell collected for writing articles. The notes include material on superstition and folklore, tropical sanitation, the encouragement of native arts and crafts, fish, insects and animal behaviour. Among the notes are the published minutes of a joint meeting of the Royal Empire Society and the Royal African Society, held to discuss an address by Elspeth Huxley on the future of East Africa, a brief article on divination from ‘Notes Africaines’, July...
Dates:
1885 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Scrap Book, 1889 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/1
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains cuttings of many reviews of Bell’s publications, including ‘Obeah : witchcraft in the West Indies’ (London, 1889) and ‘A witch's legacy’ (London, 1893) which appeared in British, African and West Indian periodicals, along with copies of:‘The Fetish-mountain of Krobo’, ‘Macmillan’s Magazine’, July 1893, 210-19‘His Highness Prince Kwakoo’, ‘The Idler Magazine’, Dec. 1896, 685-96‘History, trade, resources, and present condition of the Gold Coast...
Dates:
1889 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library