mss010 Diary of a trip through the Grenadines, May 2-June 18, 1891 [photocopy] Leslie Czechowski University of Minnesota Libraries November 2004
University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455
EAD encoding by Leslie Czechowski November 2004 English Nicholls, H. A. Alford (Henry Alfred Alford), 1851-1926. Diary of a trip through the Grenadines, May 2-June 18, 1891 [photocopy] 1891-1966 (bulk 1891) University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts Division [mss] .25 cubic feet Collection comprises a photocopy of the typewritten version of the diary Mss 10 English Mezzanine Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

Available for use in Manuscripts Division reading room.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright is retained by the author.

 Preferred Citation

H. A. Nicholls Diary [photocopy] (Mss 10), Literary Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

 Alternate Form

Original diary is located at the Botany Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Libraries.

 Biographical Note

Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls was born in London in 1851. He received M.B. and C.M. degrees from the University of Aberdeen in 1873 and an M.D. at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He moved to Dominica to serve as Assistant Medical Officer and remained there for the rest of his life. In addition to his medical duties, Nicholls was actively interested in botany and agriculture, and was the author of a textbook on tropical agriculture. He died in 1926.

 Scope and Content Note

The collection comprises a photocopy of the typewritten version of the diary, held at Harvard University, and a cover letter dated August 31, 1966 from Richard A. Howard, Director, The Arnold Arboretum to John E. Adams, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Nicholls, H. A. Alford (Henry Alfred Alford), 1851-1926--Diaries.