Mrs. E.C. Packard

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Collection Level Description: Sketches, Photographs and Diaries of Mrs. E.C. Packard

Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Afr.r.211
Title: Sketches, Photographs and Diaries of Mrs. E.C. Packard
Dates of Creation: 1904-[1915?]
Extent: 5 volumes
Name of Creator: E.C. Packard

Language of Material: eng

Administrative/Biographical History

No relevant details are available.

Scope and Content

Diaries (February-June 1904) of a young housekeeper in Freetown, Sierra Leone (2 volumes), with 2 volumes of water colour sketches (mainly sketches of flowers) and an album of photographs, relating to Sierra Leone.

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. 1427 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Access Points

Packard | E C | fl 1904 | housekeeper in Sierra Leone

Housekeeping | Sierra Leone | Freetown

Watercolor painting | Sierra Leone | Freetown

Sierra Leone | Description and travel

Sierra Leone | Social life and customs | Pictorial works

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