Letters from Rowland and Clare Daniel (photocopies)

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.2015
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1898, 1906
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Letters from Rowland Daniel, to his mother and sisters, written on voyage to Cape Town, Africa, and on arrival in Mafeking to join the Bechuanaland Police Mounted Regiment (1898). Also, letters from Rowland Daniel (and some from his wife Clare) as Resident Magistrate in Serowe and Assistant Commissioner in Francistown (1906). Photocopies.

Administrative / Biographical History

Rowland Daniel travelled to Africa in the late 19th century to join the Bechuanaland Police Mounted Regiment. He later held the posts of Resident Magistrate in Serowe and Assistant Commissioner in Francistown.

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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. 1187 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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