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Add MS 89298/1
- Record Id:
- 036-003392702
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003392699
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054226011.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89298/1
- Title:
- Correspondence and reports regarding the acquisition of papyri
- Scope & Content:
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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
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003392699
036-003392702 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89298 : Sir Harold Idris Bell: Additional papers relating to the acquisition of papyri by the British Museum, 1920-1935
Add MS 89298/1 : Correspondence and reports regarding the acquisition of papyri - Contains:
- Add MS 89298/1/1 : Papers relating to the Papyrus Syndicate sent by Mrs Hunt, 6 June 1935 (contains list of joint purchase by Kelsey &…
Add MS 89298/1/2 : Index to letters within the collection, 1920-1931
Add MS 89298/1/3 : Letters received from William Linn Westermann (1922-1930)
Add MS 89298/1/4 : Letters received from Professor Dr Wilhelm Schubart (1928-1930), plus a few letters from Henry A Sanders (1927), A H Smith…
Add MS 89298/1/5 : Letters and invoices received from Enoch Peterson, Mikhail Rostovtzeff, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and Count de…
Add MS 89298/1/6 : Letters received from Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen (1921-1922, 1924-1928), plus three letters received from Girolamo Vitelli (1929)
Add MS 89298/1/7 : Letters received from E A Wallis Budge (1921), Joseph Bidez (1922-1923), David L Askren (1923-1927) and Arthur Edward Romilly…
Add MS 89298/1/8 : Letters received from Campbell Bonner (1927-1931) and William Warner Bishop (1931)
Add MS 89298/1/9 : Letters received from Samson Eitrem (1923-1930), Robert Garrett (1930), James Rendel Harris (1920-1929), Pierre Jouguet…
Add MS 89298/1/10 : Letters received from Francis Willey Kelsey (1920-1927)
Add MS 89298/1/11 : Letters received from Frederic George Kenyon (1920-1923), Joan Kingsford (1930) and Casper J Kraemer Jr (1927)
Add MS 89298/1/12 : Letters received from Victor Martin (1921-1922), plus correspondence between Bell and Maurice Nahman (1923-1931)
Add MS 89298/1/13 : Letters regarding papyrus fragments purchased by David Askren and Robert Garrett in 1929 and distributed in 1949
Add MS 89298/1/14 : Draft text of the specimen tariff of papyrus prices, plus accompanying letter
Add MS 89298/1/15 : Correspondence regarding the acquisition of papyri (including Egerton Papyrus 2) between Bell and Campbell Bonner, Samson…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 89298/1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003392699[0001]/036-003392702
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89298
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
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15 files
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1920-1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)