| Description | Box of miscellaneous typed notes compiled by Bidwell, largely consisting of summarised extracts from books that he had read, including works from the 19th and 20th centuries by Elie Kedourie, Majid Khadduri, J. Theodore Bent, A. Auzouz, Harry St John Philby, Elizabeth Monroe, Joseph Heller, George Borrow, Drummond Hay, Fred Halliday, Mostafa Bechir, King Hussein, A. F. Tschiffely and many others. There is also a brown folder arked 'Travellers' which includes works that Bidwell used for his book 'Travellers in Arabia' and a small file with several pages of typed notes on the history of falconry and hunting with hawks in the Middle East. |