Papers of Emil Torday, [1908-1931], including:
MS 192
Typescript notes for 'African races', published as Division I, no. 4 of Descriptive sociology, edited by H. Spencer, London, 1930, including notes on a number of African peoples including Bantu, Khoikhoi and Bushmen.
MS 193
Typescript notes on Loango, Angola.
MS 194
Questionnaires, papers and letters in connection with the Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants, 1930-1931.
MS 195
Translation of Bacongo incantations and prayers, by J. van Wing, S.J.; translated by E. Torday. (London, 1930) and related correspondence.
MS 196
Draft of a book entitled Yarns from the West coast: being the diary of Mr Hilary Jones, edited by F.R.G.S., c. 1908, annotated with corrections.
MS 197
Typescript papers and lectures, [c 1930], including lectures on Hungary to Rotarians; lecture 'On some oddities of the Congo people'; lecture on West Africa, [1931] and lecture on female initiation in Africa.
MS 198
Typescript articles and African folk stories, annotated corrections, mostly in Hungarian.
MS 424
Notes ethnographiques sur les peoples communément appelés Bakuba, by Torday and Thomas Athol Joyce, 1911 (3 copies).
MS 425
Index cards from Torday's library.
Torday , Emil , 1875-1931 , anthropologist