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Queen Victoria's phonograph message to the Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Edward Ullendorff
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In BSOAS, xxxii, 2, 1969, my friend and colleague, Dr. Abraham Demoz of the Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, published the Amharic text of a phonograph message which the Emperor Menelik II (1889–1913) and the Empress Taitu sent to Queen Victoria.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , October 1973 , pp. 622 - 623
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1973

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References

1 Crown copyright material is quoted by kind permission of the Controller of HMSO. The location of the originals of these minutes has not yet been traced (I am grateful to the officers of the Public Record Office).

2 The text of that message appears in BSOAS, loc. cit., p. 261.

3 Lt.-Col. John Lane Harrington was appointed British Agent in Ethiopia in 1897 (see BSOAS, xxx, 3, 1967, 641–54Google Scholar).

4 Sir Arthur Bigge who, in 1895, had succeeded Sir Henry Ponsonby as Queen Victoria's private secretary.

5 This is no doubt the reason why the Queen had given express instructions for the cylinder bearing her message to be destroyed soon after her voice had been played several times to the Ethiopian Imperial couple.

6 Sir Thomas H. Sanderson, then Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office (cf. Sanderson, G. N., England, Europe and the Upper Nile, Edinburgh, 1965, 230et passimGoogle Scholar).

7 The third Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary.