Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Album (Correspondence, 17 x 13 in. x 0.5 in. (box), 17 x 13 in. (pages))
- Date
- circa 1891
- Container
- Item M030
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Albums
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Letters written in response to Guedalla's invitation to attend a dinner given for Lord Randolph Churchill on the eve of his departure for South Africa at the Amphitryon Club on 18 March 1891. Among the replies are those from J. Chamberlain and Asquith. Some of the letters are formal acceptances of the invitation; others more personal in content. Lord Randolph's trip to South Africa resulted in his book Men, mines and animals in South Africa. While there he wrote to Winston, at that time at Harrow, "Here I have been examining gold mines & investing money in what I hope will be fortunate undertakings ..."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890685-2
