Box 1
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Contains 4 Results:
Correspondence, 1896 August 30 - 1896 September 20
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145858
Scope and Contents
Some typescripts added from Acc. 1994.13.
Dates:
1896 August 30 - 1896 September 20
Charles Mills Sheldon, Kosheh Camp, Sudan?, to Grace Sheldon, London, England., 1896 August 30
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145859
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Mention of storm wiping about 12 miles of railroad and wires and delay of expedition; description of storm and damage; army "scattered along a line a hundred miles long" and vulnerable to Dervish attack; hopes of home.
Dates:
1896 August 30
Charles Mills Sheldon, Kosheh, Sudan?, to Grace Sheldon, London, England., 1896 September 5
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145860
Scope and Contents
Account of an overnight trip down river to Firket Mountain with Beaman; Commentary on Egyptians; account of climb up mountain; "We had all thought that there had been Dervishes on the mountain the morning of the fight, but I saw now that this would have been impossible."
Dates:
1896 September 5
Charles Mills Sheldon, Hafir, to Grace Sheldon, London, England., 1896 September 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: id145861
Scope and Contents
Arrival at Kerma welcomed by native Berberine population; fighting with Dervishes soon after arrival; account of moving army en route to Dongola.
Dates:
1896 September 20