Typescripts by Ellen Kathleen Fenning

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.2144
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1919-1921]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 64 ff.

Scope and Content

Accounts by Ellen Kathleen Fenning of the consecration of the Anglican Cathedral at Entebbe (13th September 1919), and her impressions of the country and people while on safari with her husband, Captain G.E. Fenning (DSO), Assistant Director of Surveys in Uganda. Also 2 circular letters (1921), dealing with her domestic arrangements and the difficulties of child-care in Uganda. Typescript and photocopied typescript.

Administrative / Biographical History

Ellen Kathleen Ashdown married Captain George Edward Fenning in 1919.

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Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Listed as no. 1140 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994(Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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