Letters from John I. Leigh (to his brother, Dr. Thomas D. Leigh) and from Mary Leigh and their children in South Africa (1886-1908). The letters describe the vicissitudes of an English settler's life, relations with the Dutch and the effects of the Boer War. Also, letters from John I. Leigh's brother Herbert who was in the tea trade in Assam (1885-1894).
Letters from John, Mary and Herbert Leigh
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1731
- Dates of Creation
- 1885-1908
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 1 volume
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Unknown.
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Note
Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Listed as no. 1202 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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