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Add MS 45932-45933

Record Id:
032-002018846
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002018846
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45932-45933
Title:

LETTER-BOOKS OF ALEXANDER DRUMMOND as factor of the Levant Company, British Vice-Consul at Alexandretta and, from 1751, Consul at Aleppo; 1747-1756

Scope & Content:

English, French, and Italian. The contents comprise transcripts of outgoing official, business, and a few personal letters. At the end of each volume is an index of correspondents, who included James Porter (knt. 1763), British Ambassador at Constantinople, Arthur Pollard, Drummond's predecessor as Consul at Aleppo, and George Wakeman, Consul at Cyprus. Neither volume includes any of the letters to the writer's brother George that were published as Travels through...Germany, Italy, Greece, and parts of Asia, London, 1754. Two volumes. Paper. Large folio. Given to the donor by her uncle, Sir Thomas Riddell, 3rd Bart. Presented by Miss Ethel Hodgson.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Tree:
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032-002018846
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Contains:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
2 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1747
End Date:
1756
Date Range:
1747-1756
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Sir Thomas Milles Riddell, 3rd Baronet d 1883: Owned.

Ethel Hodgson, of Alresford, county Hampshire: Presented: in 1944.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Hodgson, Ethel, of Alresford, county Hampshire
Riddell, Thomas Milles, 3rd Baronet, d 1883