Diary of Lady Elnor Maddocks

Scope and Content

Diary of Lady Elnor Maddocks depicting bush life in Salingo, Adamawa province, Nigeria, 1937. Manuscript, original and revised version.

Administrative / Biographical History

Elnor Radcliffe Russell, CStJ, was the daughter of Sir E. John Russell. In 1951 she married Sir Kenneth Phipson Maddocks, colonial administrator.

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Listed as no. 1362 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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