It also makes clear that the folio numbering can be misleading, because ‘a folio’ sometimes covers very large numbers of individual items (on occasion, over a hundred). However, there is a helpful detailed Inventory, commissioned in the early 1980s, which provides an overview, discusses the main sub-divisions within the collection, and also specifies contents at an individual folio level. It is difficult to comprehend its contents and shape overall without extensive work. Admired by some, the general consensus now concerns his combination of ruthlessness and charm and his quest for power for its own sake.ġ.3 The Bodleian collection is core to grasping the surviving documentary traces of Rhodes and the various business organisations, including the British South Africa Company (the Chartered Company) and De Beers, that he was key to. He also gained and used political power to further these things, and vice versa.
Its main components are numbered Mss Afr s227 and s228 respectively, and are detailed later.ġ.2 Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) was a British entrepreneur and politician who made his mark and money through diamonds and other minerals, gold, land-grabs and financial and share dealings. Please reference as: Liz Stanley (2018) ‘Collections: Rhodes Papers’ and provide the paragraph number as appropriate when quoting.ġ.1 The Rhodes Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is a very large and complexly configured collection composed by the remaining papers of a number of companies and other organisational bodies that the entrepreneur and politician Cecil John Rhodes was associated with. Rhodes Papers, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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