Journal by Cyril Punch

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1913
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1785-1788, 1889, 1906
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume, 1 file (104 ff., 48 ff.)

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.

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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. 1389 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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