Duncan Cumming typescript on Victorian adventures in Abyssinia, undated.

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Duncan Cumming typescript on Victorian adventures in Abyssinia, undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669773420

Collection consists of a photocopy of the chapter on John Bell and Walter Plowden, from Cumming's unpublished book on Englishmen who visited and lived in Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) between 1840 and 1866.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7963031

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Bell, John, -1860

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John Bell was born about 1830 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States with his father before his 21st birthday. He was an insurance and loan agent in Richmond, Indiana in the 1860s and 1870s. He moved to San Jose, California between 1875 and 1876 and continued working as an insurance and loan agent. Sometime after 1881, he married Hannah B. Cooper, John L. Cooper's widow, and helped raise her two daughters, Elizabeth P. and Anna J. Cooper. John and Hannah B. Cooper Bell had a daughter of ...

Cumming, Duncan, 1903-1979

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Duncan Cumming, a twentieth century British colonial administrator, served in Eritrea and Sudan during the 1940s and 1950s. He was the biographer of the traveler Mansfield Parkyns. From the description of Duncan Cumming typescript on Victorian adventures in Abyssinia, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 669773420 ...

Plowden, Walter Chichele, 1820-1860

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