TW Baxter. Typescript, 1974. Collection of Rhodes's letters.

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Donation by mediation of Prof. Robert Rotberg, accessioned February 1982. 3 volumes (bound), 720 pages. Photocopy. Publication was finished at Thorpe Bay in 1974 and privately circulated by the author, TW Baxter. Correspondence includes documents in the possession of Rhodes House (Oxford), HF Oppenheimer (The Brenthurst Library), South African Library.
-- Yrs CJ Rhodes: the letters of an imperialist. TS. of Cecil John Rhodes's correspondence, arranged in chapters covering the main phases of his life. Correspondents include: A Beit, JX Merriman, W Pickering, TC Scanlen, FSP Stow. The subject matter covers the diamond fields and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.; establishment of Rhodesia and the British South Africa Company; Rhodes and the Princess Radziwill; Rhodes's wills and the establishment of the Rhodes scholarships.

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