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Title

Subject files and correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. 12110/17

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1:

'Bus Names Ghana' (file 'GEN. 3'). Lists of bus names, also names of signs and lorries, n.d. [1962?-1963?].

'Ghanaian Woods' (file 'GEN.5'). Issues 1 and 2 of Timber Review (United Africa Company), annotated, and leaflet from timber company F. Hills & Sons Limited, n.d. [1961?-1963?].

'Tree Planting by MPs' (file 'GEN. 10'). Correspondence with Stearn & Challis regarding purchase of bronze plates recording the planting of trees by 15 Members of Parliament who were staying with Geoffrey de Freitas, 1962-1963.

'Eschewings etc.', file containing telexes, n.d. [1962?-1963?].

'Marginal Notes', n.d. [1963?].

Folder 2:

Information about Ghana including a description of a visit to Ghana in 1956; notes on place names and 'The Naming Ceremony in Akan', n.d. [1961?]; a Language Guide (Akuapem Twi Edition) produced by the Bureau of Ghana Languages, 1961, and a notebook containing notes on the history of Ghana, 1961-1963.

Folder 3:

Letters from Geoffrey de Freitas to Helen de Freitas, 1961-1963.

Letters from Helen de Freitas to Geoffrey de Freitas, 1961-1962.