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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89291/2/31
Title:: Letters from Karl von Normann to Asta Crowe (née von Barby), dated 1882-1888
Scope & Content:: Letters from Karl von Normann to his cousin Asta Crowe (née von Barby), wife of Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, dated 1882-1888.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1882-1888
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89291/2/32
Title:: Transcriptions of letters from Karl von Normann to Asta Crowe (née von Barby)
Scope & Content:: Typed transcriptions of letters from Karl von Normann to his cousin Asta Crowe (née von Barby), wife of Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, completed in 1971. Letter demonstrates work undertaken by Prof. Hilda Brown (St Hilda's College, Oxford) and assistant at the request of Dr Sybil Crowe, granddaughter ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1971
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89298
Title:: Sir Harold Idris Bell: Additional papers relating to the acquisition of papyri by the British Museum, 1920-1935
Scope & Content:: Letters received by Bell from members of the papyrus purchasing syndicate, British Museum colleagues, and antiquities dealers, with some copies of Bell's outgoing letters; plus reports on planned and actual purchases, and inventory and distribution lists of papyrus collections and purchases.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1920-1949
Extent:: 28 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89298/1
Title:: Correspondence and reports regarding the acquisition of papyri
Scope & Content:: Principally letters received by Bell from members of the Papyrus Purchasing Syndicate, British Museum colleagues and antiquities dealers, with occasional copies of outgoing letters by Bell. Predominantly 1920-1934. An index to the letters can be found at Add MS 89298/1/2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1920-1949
Extent:: 15 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89298/1/4
Title:: Letters received from Professor Dr Wilhelm Schubart (1928-1930), plus a few letters from Henry A Sanders (1927), A H Smith and Herbert Thompson (1925-1931)
Scope & Content:: Letter to Bell from A H Smith, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, dated 25 July [1927?] regarding arrangements to clean the Vespasian tablets (76 AD), and that it would be preferable for the museum to retain them. Letters to Bell from Herbert Thompson, dated 27 July 1930...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1925-1931
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89315
Title:: Diary of Alfred Ogle Maskell for the years 1861-1911, plus brief extracts from the diary of his father William Maskell for the years 1837-1890
Scope & Content:: Flyleaf ii - Pencil annotations, presumably added during cataloguing by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers. Folios 1v - 2v in Alfred Maskell's hand, 'Extracts from my fathers diaries, 1837-1890'. The rest of the volume consists of Alfred Maskell's own diary entries. Entries for 1886 to 1890 are ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1886-1890
Extent:: 1 volume (i-iii, plus 113 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89317/5/16
Title:: Papers of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville; Printed material
Scope & Content:: Index, ff. i-ii. Trade card of Louis Mallet, horloger, Paris. f. 1. Cutting relating to the Garde Nationale of Marseille. ff. 2-2v. Map of Warsaw with MS. colouring and additions. Printed in Berlin, 1794. f. 3. Declaration concerning the war with France. Dated at: Westminster. 28 October 1797, ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:: 1794-1842
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89317/7
Title:: Papers of Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
Scope & Content:: Correspondence and papers of Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891), politician, who served as Foreign Secretary under Gladstone. He was one of four children of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1773-1846) and Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville (née Lady...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:: c 1825-1899
Extent:: 607 files, some sub-divided (349 bound volumes + 258 files of unbound papers)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89317/7/234/1
Title:: Accounts. Bundle 1 of 8.
Scope & Content:: Expenditure relating to the mission to Russia for the coronation of Tsar Alexander II. Unlabelled bundle of miscellaneous bills, many relating to hotels on the journey to Russia.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 file

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