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152 x 108 mm. glossy print.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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55 x 60 mm. General view.

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125 x 95 mm. Showing a road with a group of circular huts or buildings behind and mountains beyond them.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of photographs on 41 album sheets. Typed on a piece of paper stuck on one album sheet is: 'ALBUM 2. All the photographs in this album were taken by me, on a safari from Victoria (B. Cameroons) to Port Sudan. This journey lasted from April 7/35 till August 2/36. The photographs are of anthropological interest only, and deal mostly with the Mangbetu tribe in the northern Congo; the Karamojong in Northern Uganda, and various tribes in the southern Sudan. I was using only a...

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115 170 mm. Two men, one with spears.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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121 x 83 mm. glossy print.

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118 x 80 mm. glossy print with 35 mm negative.

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80 x 80 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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The caption to the right of the photograph continues: 'This is one of the better rest camps. In the Sudan they are nearly all good'.

Scope and Contents A letter from King William's Town, South Africa, 21 July 1882 (4 pages), commenting on events in Egypt and on nationalism as a force there and elsewhere. There is an accompanying newscutting of circa 1969 concerning the letter. The folder also includes one of the notes issued by General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum, 1884-1885. The papers are accompanied by 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 159 (March 1970), including the article 'General Gordon on nationalism' (pp....

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Letters in German from Austrian Consuls-General at Cairo and their agents at Khartoum dealing with events in Southern Sudan, including the work of the Vicariate of Central Africa, consular returns from Khartoum and provisional instructions for the Consulate at Khartoum, c. 170 pages. The letters were transcribed from originals in the Östereichisches Staatsarchiv in Vienna by Richard Gray for his 'A history of Southern Sudan' (1961).

Scope and Contents Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...

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Letters to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton from Sir Samuel Baker and Sir Roderick Murchison. There is a covering letter from Mrs M.C. Ponsonby, 8 February 1939, presenting the letters to the R.C.S., and the Librarian's reply, 9 February 1939. The folder also includes 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 19 (July 1958), comprising the article 'Sir Samuel Baker and the slave trade', which transcribes the letters and comments on them.

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115 x 85 mm. View of a large house, with a thatched roof.

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160 x 126 mm. A view showing Lloyd and Bathurst standing outside a tent in the Omdurman camp, with the Nile in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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159 x 134 mm. A view showing Lieut (later Baron) Jeffreys with the cub on a lead, watched by Capt Marshall and with Private Currell in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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164 x 108 mm. A view showing this group of officers standing on an open plain at Atbara. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Atbara Camp, August 15th'.

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156 x 134 mm. A view showing the three officers standing outside a tent in the Omdurman camp, with Private Jones in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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82 x 67 mm. A view showing Sudanese soldiers walking among the piles of dead dervishes in their white jibbas on the battlefield of Omdurman.

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The caption below the photograph reads: 'Liria rest house is built on a ridge with an excellent view of the country all round. From it one can see the Imatong and Acholi Mts, and the flat Nile country leading up to the Sudd'.

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55 x 60 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert posing for the camera.

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70 x 65 mm. Showing Mrs Hebbert seated on a horse.

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A collection of captioned glass negatives illustrating the CMS's work, many dated 1937.