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Box 4

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

lettres arabes, Reel 15G 80

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10-14
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Important file of varied elements. Sections include letters to al-hajj Buguni, Ahmad al-Kabir, his counselor Seydu Jeliya, his son Madani, and many others. Arabic. The first section of the letters were taken by the French from Segu in 1890. The other sections may have been taken from Nioro. Most were written in the 1870s and 1880s. A number of letters carry Ahmad’s seal.

Dates: 1880-1896