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File 14 (A90): 'Prof. Mrs Dorothy Hodgkin Abodin Annwonsɛm', a Ghanaian poem praising Hodgkin for her Nobel Prize in English and Aka (possibly Twi dialect).

Item

Title
File 14 (A90): 'Prof. Mrs Dorothy Hodgkin Abodin Annwonsɛm', a Ghanaian poem praising Hodgkin for her Nobel Prize in English and Aka (possibly Twi dialect).
Institution
University of Oxford
Collection Title
Additional papers of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Creator(s)
A. C. Denteh
Collector(s)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Description/Scope and Content
This collection of additional papers contains biographical, personal and research material relating to Hodgkin, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964. The papers in this supplement are those accessed by Georgina Ferry when on temporary loan to the Bodleian and used for the writing her biography on Hodgkin. See https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3222.
Date
1964-Nov-11
Location
Bodleian Library
Identifier
MS. Eng. c. 7928/14
Language
Akan (? Twi] and English translation
Extent
1 folder
Collection Type
archival collection
Level of Processing
Fully Processed
Type of Materials/Format
paper-manuscripts
Provenance
After her death, many personal and family papers remained in family hands and were transferred on a temporary basis to the Bodleian Library, Oxford for the use of Georgina Ferry whose biography was published in 1998. Thereafter, donated by the Hodgkin family through NCUACS, Nov. 2004.
Donor Information
NA
Usage
Medium (Occasional exhibit or research/educational use)
Notes
No restrictions
Item sets
Oxford