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Collection Level Description: Journal by Cyril Punch

Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Afr.s.1913
Title: Journal by Cyril Punch
Dates of Creation: 1785-1788, 1889, 1906
Extent: 1 volume, 1 file (104 ff., 48 ff.)
Name of Creator: Cyril Punch

Language of Material: eng


Administrative/Biographical History

Cyril Punch, trader in West Africa.

Scope and Content

"A visit to the King of Benin": a journal by Punch, then a trader in West Africa, 1889 (manuscript and separate transcript); with extracts from the diary of Antera Duke, an Efik slave-trading Chief in Calabar, 1785-1788, and a report on the native law of Egbaland, 1906 (typescript).

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. 1389 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Access Points

Punch | Cyril | fl 1889 | trader in West Africa

Duke | Antera | fl 1785-1788 | Efik slave-trading Chief in Calabar

Merchants | Africa, West

Slave traders | Nigeria | Calabar

Law | Nigeria | Akwa-Ibom

Benin (Nigeria) | Kings and rulers

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27 January 2012
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