MS 433 01 01
Reference code
MS 433 01 01
Title
Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger: Correspondence
Level
Sub-series
Date
1895-1919
Extent & medium
13 boxes containing c.800 letters
Content description
The boxes contain personal letters which were sent home by Wilfred G. Thesiger, initially to his mother or father, and later to his wife, and describe his day to day activities and diplomatic role while he was stationed in various foreign offices.
They are contained in glazed linen boxes
They are contained in glazed linen boxes
Arrangement
The letters have been catalogued according to the arrangement adopted by his son Wilfred P. Thesiger. They have been grouped by place and arranged chronologically.
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Number 1 of 2 at this Level
- Next: Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger's Abyssinian dispatches to the Foreign Office, MS 433 01 02, (1909-1919)
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Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Lake Van: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his parents, MS 433 01 01 01, (1895-1897)
- Belgrade: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his mother, MS 433 01 01 02, (1904-1906)
- St Petersburg: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his mother and his brother Percy, MS 433 01 01 03, (1907)
- Congo: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, MS 433 01 01 04, (1907-1909)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, MS 433 01 01 05, (1909-1919)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, MS 433 01 01 06, (1913-1915)
- Paris (War time letters): Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, MS 433 01 01 07, (1914)
- Paris (War time letters): Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his wife, MS 433 01 01 08, (1914-1920)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his wife, MS 433 01 01 09, (1911-1919)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, MS 433 01 01 10, (1915-1920)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his mother, MS 433 01 01 11, (1916)
- Abyssinia: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his mother, MS 433 01 01 12, (1917-1919)
- Cairo, Aden and India: Letters sent from Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger to his mother, MS 433 01 01 13, (1917-1919)