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Add MS 70782
- Record Id:
- 032-001964604
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001964604
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x0001ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 70782
- Title:
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STANLEY MORISON: letter from Stanley Arthur Morison, typographer, to John Simon Gabriel Simmons, Librarian-Lecturer in Charge of Russian and Slavonic Books at the University of Oxford, afterwards Librarian of All Souls College, Oxford; 8 Nov. 1956. Typewritten. Signed. Enclosed (ff. 2-3) is a printed diploma from the British Museum to the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, offering congratulations on the 220th anniversary of the foundation of the Academy of Sciences; June 1945. Signed by Sir Edgar John Forsdyke, Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum. English and Russian. With two impressions of the seal of the British Museum. Presented by J. S. G. Simmons, April 1991.
Paper; ff. 3. 560 x 380mm.
- Scope & Content:
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Sir Edgar John Forsdyke, KCB; Director of the British Museum: British Museum: Russian Academy of Sciences: Diploma to the Russian Academy of Sciences from the British Museum, signed by Sir Edgar John Forsdyke: 1945: Partly Russ: Printed.
Stanley Morison, typographer: John Simon Gabriel Simmons, Librarian-Lecturer, University of Oxford: Letter to John Simon Gabriel Simmons from Stanley Morison: 1956: Signed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001964604
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001964604
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Russian - Scripts:
- Cyrillic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1945
- End Date:
- 1956
- Date Range:
- 1945-1956
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- British Museum, 1753-
Forsdyke, Edgar John, KCB, Director of the British Museum
Morison, Stanley Arthur, typographer, 6 May 1889-11 Oct 1967
Russian Academy of Sciences
Simmons, John Simon Gabriel, Librarian-Lecturer University of Oxford