Papers written by Hoffman

Comprises of the following papers, mainly autobiographical memoirs of Hoffman's African travels:

MS.6011/1: 'Across Africa with the great explorer and how the pygmies were first discovered by the late Sir H M Stanley', 12 ff, dated 1884-1888

MS.6011/2: 'Across Africa with the great explorer Sir Henry M Stanley' (a further draft of MS.6011/1), 18 ff, dated 1884-1888

MS.6011/3: 'How the pygmies were discovered who are now in this country', 8 ff, dated 1884-1909

MS.6011/4: autobiographical memoir of travels in the Congo in 1891-92, 47 ff, dated 1891-1892

MS.6011/5: 'An illustration of one of my many experiences in the Congo', 10 ff, dated 1884-1909

MS.6011/6: 'Life in a Station', 15 ff, dated 1884-1909

MS.6011/7: 'Sport with [Congo] natives', 7 ff, 1884-1909

1884-1909

1 file Partly draft.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).