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Add MS 54579
- Record Id:
- 032-001960146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001960146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x000067
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 54579
- Title:
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MARX-LENIN PAPERS: correspondence, etc., concerning the use of the Reading Room at the British Museum by Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilich Lenin; 1873-1903. Partly typewritten. Transferred from the Director's Office of the British Museum in 1954 and incorporated in the collections of the Manuscripts Department in Feb. 1969.
Paper; ff. ii+5. British Library arrangement.
Contents:
1. ff. i-ii. Index slips recording the issue of tickets to Marx, and to Lenin under the name 'Jacob Richter'; 1873, 1902-1903.
2. ff. 1-5. Papers concerning Lenin's application for a Reading Room ticket; April 1902. Included are references and two letters from Lenin signed 'Jacob Richter' (ff. 2, 4). Partly typewritten.
- Scope & Content:
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British Museum: Papers conc. the use of the Reading Room by K. Marx and V. I. Lenin: 1873, 1902-1903: Partly typewritten.
includes:
- f. i Karl Heinrich Marx: Index slip recording issue to, of a British Museum Reading Room ticket: 1873.
- ff. 1, 3 Isaac Mitchell, Secretary, General Federation of Trade Unions: Letters to the British Museum: 1902: Partly typewritten.
- ff. ii, 1-5 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, alias 'Jacob Richter': Letters, etc., conc. his application for a British Museum Reading Room ticket: 1902-1903: Autogr. and typewritten.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001960146
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001960146
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1873
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 1873-1903
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- British Museum, 1753-
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, alias 'Jacob Richter'
Marx, Karl Heinrich, German philosopher, 1818-1883
Mitchell, Isaac, Sec General Federation of Trade Unions