Explorers and Travellers in Africa

Correspondence of various European explorers of Africa or travellers in it, formerly held in individual files in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1760-1893

43 items

Purchased from: Puttick and Simpson, February 1929 (acc.56125 and 56127) and May 1930 (acc.62824); Sotheby's, London, July 1930 (acc.63152), November 1931 (acc.75332), April 1933 (acc.67463), November 1933 (acc.67472) and June 1994 (acc.349517); Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.68100), September 1930 (acc.56360), February 1931 (acc.68117), July 1931 (acc.68202), August 1931 (acc.68229), September 1931 (acc.68262), November 1931 (acc.68271) and October 1932 (acc.68325); Glendining, London, July 1932 (acc.67690), August 1932 (acc.67696), February 1933 (acc.67754), September 1933 (acc.67771), March 1935 (acc.68472) and August 1935 (acc.67884 and 67885); presented to Sir Henry Wellcome by an un-named donor, circa December 1933 (acc.66320); provenance details not recorded (acc.67430). No details concerning the provenance of no.41 are known.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.