Long Safari: lymphoma syndrome diary - letter to E. H. Williams family

Eighty page typed carbon copy account of 'Long Safari' in the form of letters from Burkitt addressed to E. H. Williams's family. The first letter is dated 7 Oct 1961 and the last part of the journal is dated Sunday 17th December.

See also WTI/DPB/B/4 and D/1/3 and D/1/5.

Oct-Dec 1961

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The trip subsequently called 'The Long Safari' was undertaken by Burkitt and two companions, Edward ('Ted') Williams and Cliff Nelson. Ted had worked for years in a mission hospital in Northern Uganda and Cliff had recently left a government appointment to run a mission hospital in Tanzania. All were friends. As well as camping equipment they took a cine camera, typewriter and a tape recorder. The trip attracted publicity which led to it appearing in Readers Digest and subsequently the centre of a book which was published in America under the title 'Mr Burkitt in Africa' but subsequently in England under the title 'The Long Safari'.