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Collection Level Description: Transcribed letters from Oswald Herbert Best
Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Afr.r.228
Title: Transcribed letters from Oswald Herbert Best
Dates of Creation: 1920-1930
Extent: 1 box
Name of Creator: Oswald Herbert Best
Language of Material: eng
Administrative/Biographical History
Oswald Herbert Best, Administrative Officer in Northern Nigeria.
Scope and Content
Transcribed letters home, written as an Administrative Officer in Northern Nigeria.
Administrative Information
Access Conditions
Bodleian reader's ticket required.
Reproduction Restrictions
No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first
instance.
Further Information
Finding Aids
The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.
Listed as no. 1291 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions
1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Access Points
Best | Oswald Herbert | fl 1920-1930 | Colonial Administrator
Colonial administrators | Nigeria
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service
Nigeria | Officials and employees
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