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Collection Level Description: Copy of an extract from the diary of R. Smith relating to the Zulu War
Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Afr.r.196
Title: Copy of an extract from the diary of R. Smith relating to the Zulu War
Dates of Creation: 1878-1879
Extent: 23 ff.
Name of Creator: R. Smith
Language of Material: eng
Administrative/Biographical History
Unknown.
Scope and Content
Extract from the diary of R. Smith while serving in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards during the Zulu War, 1878-1879.
Manuscript copy made by his daughter, Ida Ashby.
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. 1214 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions
1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Access Points
Smith | R | fl 1878-1879 | 1st King's Dragoon Guards
Ashby | Ida | fl 1878-1879
Zulu War, 1879 | Personal narratives
Zululand (South Africa) | History | To 1879
Transformation from XML to HTML by Lawrence Mielniczuk
31 January 2012
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House