Cobb Letters and Memoirs

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Collection Level Description: Letters and Memoirs of Edward and Dorothy Powys Cobb

Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Afr.s.2058
Title: Letters and Memoirs of Edward and Dorothy Powys Cobb
Dates of Creation: 1909-1961
Extent: 1 box
Name of Creator: Edward and Dorothy Powys Cobb

Language of Material: eng

Administrative/Biographical History

Edward Powys Cobb, farmer at Mau Narok and Keringet in Kenya. Dorothy Powys Cobb, daughter of Edward Powys Cobb

Scope and Content

Letters home to his daughter, Dorothy, as farmer at Mau Narok and Keringet (1924-1961); with reminiscences of life in Kenya by Dorothy Powys Cobb (1909-1950s). Typescript and photocopies.

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. 1025 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Access Points

Powys Cobb | Edward | fl 1924-1961 | farmer in Kenya

Powys Cobb | Dorothy | fl 1924-1961 | daughter of Edward Powys Cobb, farmer in Kenya

Farmers | Kenya

Autobiography

Mau Narok (Kenya)

Keringet (Kenya)

Transformation from XML to HTML by Lawrence Mielniczuk
20 January 2012
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House