Object Details
- General note
- Together with a copy of: Stigger, Phillip. The experimental employment of Imperial Cape Mounted Riflemen on East African exploration, 1860-1861. M152 is the accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- 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
- Extent
- 1 Item (Correspondence, 4.5 x 7 in.)
- Date
- 1860 November 28
- Container
- Item M152
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- 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
- At the time, Southey was Acting Colonial Secretary at the Cape. Speke and Grant arrived in Cape Town in July, 1860, en route to East Africa. The Governor, Sir George Grey, supplied the expedition with baggage mules and ten (volunteer) Hottentots from the Cape Mounted Rifles.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890722-3
