Papers of Lord Claud David Hamilton relating to the Masai in Kenya

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1810
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1958-1967
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Correspondence on the Masai tribe, Kenya, with collections of tribal folk-tales and songs, articles on life in Kenya and a manuscript history of the Masai.

Administrative / Biographical History

Unknown.

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. 978 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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