Inventory of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot's effects and copies of documents in his possession at the time of his death in Yambuya, July 1888

Object Details

General note: Contemporary manuscript copy (approximately May 1890), in the hand of Ethel Jameson, from the original version made by her late husband J. S. Jameson. In a roan covered notebook.

Collection Creator: Train, Russell E., 1920-2012; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)

See more items in: Russell E. Train Africana collection; Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts

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Scope and Contents note: The document contains such information and copies of letters as: "Daily rates (of rations), European provisions for six months"; letters of instruction from Barttelot to Jameson and other members of the expedition including Troup, Ward, and Bonny; "Proposals placed before the European officers of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition at Yambuya camp"; draft contract concerning the supply of native porters, etc. Much of the material was used in W.G. Barttelot's "The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot ... commander of the Rear Column."