Letters and Memoirs of Edward and Dorothy Powys Cobb

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.2058
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1909-1961
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Letters home to his daughter, Dorothy, as farmer at Mau Narok and Keringet (1924-1961); with reminiscences of life in Kenya by Dorothy Powys Cobb (1909-1950s). Typescript and photocopies.

Administrative / Biographical History

Edward Powys Cobb, farmer at Mau Narok and Keringet in Kenya. Dorothy Powys Cobb, daughter of Edward Powys Cobb

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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. 1025 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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