Journal by Cyril Punch

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 / Biographical History

Cyril Punch, trader in West Africa.

Access Information

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Note

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

Other Finding Aids

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Listed as no. 1389 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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