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Special Collections

Description of Special Collection

Collection Level Description: Maxwell, J.G.
University Library

Collection Level Description: Maxwell, J.G.

Collection name: Maxwell, J.G.
Collection code: GB 0033 SAD
Date range: 1898-1899
Extent: 1 volume
Language: English
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Part of : Sudan Archive
Contents:
Scrapbook containing copies of telegrams, diary and notes relating to the Fashoda Incident with 40 photographs of the construction of the Halfa-Berber railway, Khartoum and the visit of the Duke of Connaught to Omdurman, 1899
About the creator:
British Army and Egyptian Army, 1879-1919 ; Governor of Khartoum, 1898-1899 ; served in Egyptian war of 1882 and Nile campaigns 1884-1886 and 1896-1898
Provenance:
Presented by Maj. E.O. Springfield, 1958
Catalogues:
Online catalogue
Related collections elsewhere:
Maxwell's papers are at Princeton University Library
Bibliography:
Arthur, G.C.A., General Sir John Maxwell (1932)
Ufford, Letitia, "Imperialists at work and play", Princeton University Library Chronicle, 51 (Spring, 1990), 141-182

Index terms

Maxwell, John Grenfell, Sir, 1859-1929.
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 1850-1942.
Khartoum (Sudan)
Omdurman (Sudan)
Sudan -- History -- 1862-1899.
Railroads -- Sudan.
Fashoda Crisis, 1898.
Date last modified: 25 November 2008