Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 73)

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Papers on the Congo. [191-]

8 pts. Various sizes

Handwritten, typescript and printed.

Contents:

/1 At the court of an African King (2 copies)

/2 Sport at a Congo mission station (2 copies)

/3 Two years among strange tribes

/4 Buffalo shooting in the Belgian Congo

/5 Loango to Kasai

/6 Corrected proofs of introduction and index to Land and Peoples of the Kasai, London, Constable, 1911-17, copy of agreement with Constable on Land and peoples of the Kasai

1 and 4 ‘Unpublished’ – 3, Written in June 1910; sold 1911 to Wide World Magazine for £35