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21. Add MS 89298/1/4

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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

22. Add MS 89298/1/8

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Title:
Letters received from Campbell Bonner (1927-1931) and William Warner Bishop (1931)
Scope & Content:
(1927). Discussing plans for upcoming purchases, and visits to Egypt by Campbell Bonner and Eitrem. Conversation between Michigan and the British Museum regarding potential independent purchasing of papyrus, and the risk of precipitating higher prices. Questions about the way in which the Americ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1931
Extent:
1 file

23. Add MS 89298/1/12

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Letters received from Victor Martin (1921-1922), plus correspondence between Bell and Maurice Nahman (1923-1931)
Scope & Content:
Letter received from Victor Martin, Genève. (1920) Regarding Bell's invitation to join the papyrus syndicate. Concern over prices and contributions, and distribution of material. (1921) Increased contribution possible. Preferred types of papyri. Distribution decisions. Arrangements for delivery ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1931
Extent:
1 file

24. Add MS 89298/1/1

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Papers relating to the Papyrus Syndicate sent by Mrs Hunt, 6 June 1935 (contains list of joint purchase by Kelsey & Grenfell in 1920)
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Francis W Kelsey to Arnold S Hunt, dated 6 and 10 March 1926, regarding the purchase of Zeno papyri in the possession of Dr Kondilios, and Bell's report on the consignment of papyri received from Maurice Nahman in Cairo. Report: suggested assignment of the Kondilios papyri. Repor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1925
Extent:
1 file

25. Add MS 89298/1/6

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Letters received from Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen (1921-1922, 1924-1928), plus three letters received from Girolamo Vitelli (1929)
Scope & Content:
Letters received from Harry Bartlett Van Hoesen, Princeton University Library. (1921). Requesting that Princeton receive details of papyri assigned to other members of the Purchasing Syndicate. (1922). Informing Bell that Princeton are beginning to put papyri between glass, both recently acqui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1921-1929
Extent:
1 file

26. Add MS 89298/1/11

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Letters received from Frederic George Kenyon (1920-1923), Joan Kingsford (1930) and Casper J Kraemer Jr (1927)
Scope & Content:
Frederic Kenyon. (1920). Making arrangements for Bell's trip to Egypt. Discussing purchase arrangements with the American syndicate. (1921). Budge acting on behalf of Kelsey and the Americans. Arrangements to transport papyri across Europe. (1922). Discussing members of the purchasing syndicate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1927
Extent:
1 file

27. Add MS 89298/1/15

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Title:
Correspondence regarding the acquisition of papyri (including Egerton Papyrus 2) between Bell and Campbell Bonner, Samson Eitrem, Maurice Nahman, Frank E Robbins, and Theodore Cressy Skeat; plus original envelope which contained the fragments of the New Gospel and other papyri, complete with seals of the Service of Antiquities, Cairo
Scope & Content:
Letters received by Bell between August and September 1934 regarding the purchase of four lots of papyri from Maurice Nahman. Correspondents: Frank E Robbins (University of Michigan), Dr Walter A Reichart, Maurice Nahman, Samson Eitrem, Campbell Bonner, and Theodore Cressy Skeat. Also includes c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1934-Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file

28. Add MS 89298/1/9

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Letters received from Samson Eitrem (1923-1930), Robert Garrett (1930), James Rendel Harris (1920-1929), Pierre Jouguet (1929), Princeton University (1930), and others (1920-1935)
Scope & Content:
Contains the following bundles: (1935). Copy of an outgoing letter from Bell to 'Sir George' [George Francis Hill, Museum Director], regarding the new Antiquities Law of the Egyptian Government, the acquisition of papyri through the 1920s and 1930s, and a suggested 'self-denying ordinance'. (1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920-1935
Extent:
1 file

29. Add MS 89298/1/5

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Title:
Letters and invoices received from Enoch Peterson, Mikhail Rostovtzeff, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and Count de Prorok (1927-1930)
Scope & Content:
Letters and telegrams received from Enoch Peterson, Mikhail Rostovtzeff, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and Count de Prorok [Byron Khun de Prorok], plus invoices and shipping notices. Undated letter from Flinders Petrie, thanking Bell for sending details of recently acquired papyri, and comme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927-1930
Extent:
1 file

30. Add MS 89298/1/7

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Title:
Letters received from E A Wallis Budge (1921), Joseph Bidez (1922-1923), David L Askren (1923-1927) and Arthur Edward Romilly Boak (1924-1925)
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following bundles of correspondence. (1921). Papers regarding the purchase of papyri from Maurice Nahman. Comprising two letters from E A Wallis Budge to Bell regarding the price accepted by Nahman, and contributions received from Kenyon; telegram from Nahman accepting the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1921-1931
Extent:
1 file