Bent, Mabel

SSC/142/1/1-4:

Letters from Mashonaland. Letter 1: 'Maklutsee Camp [Makloutsie] [Friday] May 1st 1891' 'My dearest Ethel'. 2:'The other side of the R[iver] Shashi... Saturday May 9th 1891' - Mt dearest L[oodleloo]. 3: 'Umfouli R[iver], September 5th 1891, finished 9th [September] at Fort Salisbury' - 'My dearest Faneen & L[oodleloo], Iva & E[thel]. 4: 'Union S.S. Norseman nea Beira, [Tuesday] November 24th 1891' - 'My dearest Family'.

SSC/142/1/5-11:

Letters from Abyssinia. Letter 5: 'Massawa, Montebello [Tuesday] January 3rd 1893' -'My Dearest Iva'. 6: 'Asmara. Tigrȩ́. Abyssinia, Africa [Friday] January 30th 1893' - 'My dearest Faneen'. 7: 'Asmara, Abyssinia [Monday] January 30th 1893'-My dearest Ethel. 8: 'Asmara [Saturday] February 4th 1892 [sic]' - My dear Family. 9: 'Adoua [Tuesday] February 14th 1893, Tigreh, Abyssinia' - My dear Family'. 10: Friday 23th February 1893, Aksum, Abyssinia' - My dear People. 11: [Friday] March 17th 1893, Halai, Abyssinia' - My dearest family'.

SSC/142/1/12-14:

Letters from Arabia. Letter 12: 'Aden 7-13th December [1893] ..'- My dear family. 13:'Al Khatan. Hadhramaut. In the castle of the Sultan of Shibahm [Saturday] January 13th 1894' - 'My dearest family'. 14: 'Aden Wednesday 28th March 1894' - 'My dearest Ethel'.

SSC/142/2:

2 Letters regarding the donation of Mabel Bent's letters: one dated 20th October 1967 and the other postmarked 28/09/06.

SSC/142/3:

17 page A4 pamphlet of lightly edited transcriptions of the 14 letters by Gerald Brisch entitled: Donation to the RGS: 18th January 2013.