Decle, Lionel (fl. 1893-1906)
- Date:
- July 1899-July 1900
- Reference:
- MSS.6018-6022
- Part of:
- Decle, Lionel (fl. 1893-1906), African traveller and journalist
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Notebooks of travels from Zanzibar to Beira, Salisbury, Blantyre, and up lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika to Uvira. The notebooks record miles travelled, payments to porters and sentences for offences, and incidents en route (including the dismissal for incompetence of the medical attendant, Dr Bromhead).
Publication/Creation
July 1899-July 1900
Physical description
5 volumes 5 volumes, each 165 × 104 mm.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).