Personal letters - 1928

Letters from Alexander Sandilands in Maun, Kasane, Kachikau and Nkugin Pan, Bechuanaland [Botswana], Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Victoria Falls and Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], and Johannesburg, South Africa, to his mother, Annie Jane Sandilands, in Scotland. Also: one lette...

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Order number: MS 380813 Box 1
Date(s) of creation: Jan 1928-Dec 1928
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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prefix_number 2
title Personal letters - 1928
scb_date_creation Jan 1928-Dec 1928
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level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 29 documents
format Archive
description Letters from Alexander Sandilands in Maun, Kasane, Kachikau and Nkugin Pan, Bechuanaland [Botswana], Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Victoria Falls and Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], and Johannesburg, South Africa, to his mother, Annie Jane Sandilands, in Scotland. Also: one letter of 7 Oct 1928 from Alexander Sandilands to Doris Sandilands, and a letter of 23 November from Alexander Sandilands to his brother James in Scotland. The letters include descriptions of the Sandilands' journey to Tiger Kloof by way of Livingstone and back in Jan-May 1928, and a journey by Alexander Sandilands in Aug-Oct 1928 from Maun to Bulawayo and Johnnesburg to purchase a car, which broke down in the desert between Kachikau and Maun on the return journey.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by SOAS, University of London
language English
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