Content Description Comprises photograph albums collected by or relating to Muriel Alice Jenkins (née Ackermann, also known as Sally), born 1904, and her upbringing in Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], as well as the wider Ackermann family, together with photographs relating to Muriel's husband, the colonial administrator and judge (Edward) Enoch Jenkins, and his service in Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Fiji, Nyasaland [Malawi], and Antigua (the Leeward Islands). The collection includes a small amount of personal...

Scope and Contents

The letters catalogued are an autograph collection, gathered (at least in part) by Sir Edward Frys daughter Agnes. Although individually many of them are of limited historical value, being notes of thanks to Fry and his family for congratulations or donations, and social invitations and replies, the letters as a group do throw some light on Frys career: his relations with other judges, his work as an arbitrator, and his zoological interests.