Correspondence of John Phimister Mitchell

The collection is composed of letters from J. P. Mitchell, from Ethiopia and the Sudan, mainly to his mother.

In 1920, John Phimister Mitchell was resident in Fraserburgh, Scotland. He studied at Aberdeen University, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1911. He also obtained the degree of M.B., and Ch.B. 1907. Mitchell was a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was in the Special Reserve. He had been Resident Medical Officer at Hospital for Women, Soho Square, London. Earlier he had been House Physician at the Seamen's Hospital - 'Dreadnought' - at Greenwich, and Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women, and also a Clinical Assistant and the Central London Ear Nose and Throat Hospital. He was awarded the O.B.E.

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Letters acquired from African Centre (Centre for African Studies?), September 1968, Accession no. E68.25.

Important finding aids generally are: the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives, consisting of typed slips in sheaf binders and to which additions were made until 1987; and the Index to Accessions Since 1987.

Check the local Indexes for details of any additions.