Autograph Letter Signed ('A. D. Evans-Pritchard') from Annie Dorothea Evans-Pritchard to Jack H. Driberg, regarding the voyage to Egypt of her son the social anthropologist Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (later Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard).

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Dear Mr. Jack'. Having married Ioma Gladys Heaton-Nicholls the previous year, Evans-Pritchard had been commissioned in the Sudan defence force in 1940. (He would return to the Sudan-Ethiopian border to fight against the Italians alongside irregular troops of the Anuak.) In this letter Evans-Pritchard's mother writes to J. H. Driberg, at the time Lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge University: 'Teddy & his wife were to leave England about the 3rd. for the East. I understood the sea voyage would be only about 4 or 5 days. Teddy told me to write to him to The Turf Club, Cairo.' She is 'feeling anxious about them', and asks if Driberg has 'heard from Teddy'. She informs Driberg that she is 'staying at Milton Abbey to be away from the South Coast'. Ray Abrahams, in his essay on Driberg, states that 'Evans-Pritchard was apparently his closest friend within anthropology and dedicated his1940 LSE monograph on the Anuak to him, "with great affection".'