Letters, mostly aerogrammes, from Scard to Dr. Patricia Romero, 1984-1993,covering Kenyan politics and his daily life.
Papers of Leonard H.D. Scard
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 2286
- Dates of Creation1984-1993
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description42ff.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Leonard H.D. Scard, OBE, was a colonialadministrator in Uganda until the government of Idi Amin (who appropriated his farm in 1971), and Honorary Consul at Lamu, Kenya until c1990. Tory and nationalist by persuasion, he died in 1993, leaving most of his property to a Swahili called Abdallah, whom he had adopted as a boy.
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Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Accruals
Four typescript aerogramme letters from Scard to Dr. Patricia Romero, 1986 and1991, were donated to the library in March 2002.