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MS. Eng. c. 7847
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Title
Research material and notes
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. c. 7847
Summary
Comprises:
Notes on The Biology of the Negro by Julian H. Lewis, 1942
Letter to Joan Saunders from the Gypsy Lore Society concerning Chatwin's research enquiries about Gypsies in Brazil, 5 July 1977
Cards with details of addresses in Rio de Janerio.
Photographs, including of the King of Dahomey, taken during Chatwin's visit to Benin, Dec. 1976
Photocopy of article 'Guezo Ou Guedizo Massigbe' by Abbe T Moulhero from unidentified publication, n.d.
Research notes including names of slave ships, famine, cholera, the Church Missionary Society archives, da Silva genealogy, and Dona Epiphania, n.d.
Pamphlet Influences Brésiliennes À Ouidah, n.d.
Photocopied articles from The London Illustrated News concerning West Africa, 1850-1851
Extract from The London Illustrated News of photographs of the King of Dahomey, May 1906
Photopcopied entry on vampires from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.
Photocopy of letter from Bullfinch Lamb, written from Abomey, Nov. 1724, from unidentified publication, n.d.
Pamphlet Les Afro-Américains, published by L'Institut Français D'Afrique Noire, 1953
Photocopied extracts from Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom, vol. 1, by Melville J. Herskovits, 1938
Photocopy of chapter from Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality by Ruth Landes, n.d.
Photocopied extracts concerning cholera epidemics in east Africa from unidentified publication, n.d.
Pamphlet World Food, 1975
Photocopied chapters concerning Dahomey from unidentified publication in French, n.d.
Photocopy of article 'Contribution à l'Histoire de la Famille de Souza' by Norberto Francisco de Souza in Etudes Dahomienne Vol. 13, n.d.
Benin newspaper Ehuzu, 6 Jan. 1977
Benin newspaper Ehuzu concerning the coup to oust President Kerekou, 17 Jan. 1977
Benin newspaper Ehuzu, 20 Jan. 1977
Pamphlet Initiation A La Théologie De La Religion Traditionelle Africaine by M. Guérin Montilus,
Photocopy of appendix to Minutes of Evidence Before Select Committee on the African Slave Trade, June 1849.
Notes or words possibly for a Benin song, n.d.
Date
[1976-1977]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin
Correspondence and papers concerning The Viceroy of Ouidah
Research material and notes
Research material and notes
