Title devised by cataloger, based on printed spine labels on boxes. Journals are handwritten in ink on lined paper and include pasted and loose inserts of ephemera (including printed maps and government forms completed by hand, for hunting licenses etc.), correspondence, postcards, black and white photographs, sketches, and hand-drawn maps. The journals were digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project. Includes indexes. Laid in volume 5: typescript manuscript ([23] leaves), "Copy of report by Mr. N.C. Cockburn on the 'Route from Baringo Boma to Adis Ababa along the east shore of Lake Rudolf.'" Also available online. Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn of Harmston Hall, Lincolnshire, England, presumably an heir to the Clayton & Shuttleworth engineering company, traveled extensively on safari in east and southern Africa and in the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladākh regions of India. From 1895-1904 Cockburn served as the Master of the Blankney Hounds, M.F.H. Cockburn later became a Major in the British army during World War I. The Cockburn journals were acquired by Russell E. Train from the Sotheby's auction sale of the library of Humphrey Winterton, 28 May 2003. Forms part of: Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries). SCNHRB copy has accession number M32 (for all 8 volumes) in the Cullman Library inventory list of the Russell E. Train Collection. SCNHRB copy has slip laid in from Sotheby's for auction L03407 lot 0178, 28 May 2003. SCNHRB copy has the original gilt-tooled green half-leather bindings with green cloth-covered boards, raised bands, and decorated endpapers, with all edges gilt. Signed by the binder: Stoakley, Cambridge. The bindings probably postdate the writing of the journal entries. Each volume is housed in a modern brown cloth-covered clamshell box with printed spine label and an archival paperboard portfolio enclosure. Elecresource (From binder's titles from volumes) v. 1. Around the world, Nov. 1904 to Feb. 1906 -- v. 2. East Africa, Oct. 1906 to Mar. 1907 -- v. 3. East Africa, Oct. 1907 to Mar. 1908 -- v. 4. East Africa, Nov. 1908 to Mar. 1909 -- v. 5. Lake Rudolf, Nov. 1909 to May 1910 -- v. 6. Egypt, Dec. 1910 to Mar. 1911 -- v. 7. Red Sea, Dec. 1911 to Mar. 1912 -- v. 8. Rhodesia, July 11, 1914 to Oct. 7, 1914 Journals kept by Lincolnshire native Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn, describing his travels and big game hunting adventures primarily in east and southern Africa and India, as well as his trip around the world in 1904-1906 visiting Egypt, India, Burma, Hong Kong, China, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, New York and other locations. The journals, written in a rather chatty style, describe daily activities and extensive travel details including: accomodations, methods of travel by land and sea, distances covered, social interactions, animals seen and shot, weather, and his personal impressions of countries, governments, political situations, and similar topics. Cockburn includes detailed lists of items that he brought on his trips, as well as information on ships, hotels, native vocabularies, and species of game in various geographic regions.
