Identity area
Reference code
NMPP-PC-NMPP-PC-2009/5.1
Title
Prison Desk Calendars
Date(s)
- 1976-1989 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent and medium
4 boxes containing 12 items
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Accession number 2009/5.1
Deposited by Nelson Mandela
Date received - unknown
Deposited by Nelson Mandela
Date received - unknown
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The subseries consists of 12 printed desk calendars with handwritten notes covering the period between 1976 and 1989. The years 1978 and 1985 are missing from the collection. The calendars were used as a diary by Nelson Mandela while in prison and contain entries concerning matters such as visits, dreams, films, books, personal health and politics.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Access by permission of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright held by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Language of material
- Afrikaans
- English
- Xhosa
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Finding aid available: NMF_LIB-#196862-v1-NMPP_2009_5_Prison_Desk_Calendars_documents.docx
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
NMF Archives
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Nelson Mandela Foundation. 2005. A prisoner in the garden: opening Nelson Mandela's prison archive. Johannesburg: Penguin.
Publication note
Mandela, Nelson. 2010. Conversations with myself. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Publication note
Mandela, Nelson. 2011. Nelson Mandela by himself: the authorised book of quotations. Auckland: PQ Blackwell Limited.
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Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD (G) Second Edition
Status
Draft
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Description updated on 20-01-2020 by Myeka, Zandile