The Kellet Smith Collection.

Collection of papers concerning explorations in the country west of Lake Nyasa in 1895 by a surgeon who was attached to an expedition lead by R. I. Money: 1. Diary, June-September 1895. 2. Five unpublished short stories: 'The revolution of Benjamin-wad-Wiri'; 'The Lake Trader'; 'the sacrificial altar of the Sandili'; 'The Brimming cup'; 'The thralldom of Stephen Clinch'; and a few pages, untitled, beginning, 'A man's enjoyment of golf...' 3. Fifteen chapters of an unpublished book based on events of the 1895 expedition, with 38 photographic prints prepared as illustrations, river Shire, Hora camp, tribesmen, river steamers etc.

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