Hugh Drummond Pearson – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ II

Posted on 20 June 2011 by John C.

Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]

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‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’

Posted on 26 May 2011 by John C.

This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]

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