Papers of Jane Fosbrooke

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1906
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1934-1935
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

'Ambo': transcripts of letters to her parents from Tanganyika, 1934-1935; transcript of interview, 1972, with J.J. Tawney on her experiences as wife of Henry Fosbrooke; autobiography, etc. Typescript.

Administrative / Biographical History

Jane Fosbrooke, wife of Henry Fosbrooke (b 1908), Administrative Officer and Government Sociologist in East 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

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as no. 911 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.