Archival Significance
Edited by Michael Gelfand, whose other works appear throughout this Archive, this supplement preserves the letters of Andrew Fleming, an early field doctor whose correspondence spans the very earliest years of British South Africa Company administration through to the First World War.
Institutional Context
Published by the Central African Journal of Medicine, reflecting Gelfand’s parallel career editing medical-historical material alongside his ethnographic publishing.
Content Summary
Presents the letters of Dr Andrew Fleming from 1894 to 1914, edited for the medical-historical record.
Research Utility
A primary source for researchers of early colonial-era medical practice in Rhodesia, valuable for its unusually early date range compared with most of this Archive’s other holdings.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.