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Add MS 74261
- Record Id:
- 040-001968433
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001968431
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001061.0x000101
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 74261
- Title:
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BURNS PAPERS. VOL. II. (ff. 190). Family correspondence and papers; preceded (f. 1.) by verses by Burns, 6 July 1874, beg. 'as we stood by the garden gate . . .'; for more early verse see Add. MS 46309.
1. ff. 2-24. Letters from Burns to his mother and sister Ella from Akassa, Nigeria, while working for the United West Africa Company; one letter imperfect; 1880-1881.
2. ff. 25-63. Letters from Burns to his wife Martha (Pattie); 1901-1922, n.d.; with papers relating to her death; 1936; preceded by a summons to John Gale, her father, for her non-attendance at school; 28 June 1873.
3. ff. 64-117. Correspondence of Burns with his son, John Edgar Burns; preceded by a letter from the latter to [the Revd.?] Stowell, 11 Dec. 1906; 1912-1921.
4. ff. 118-188. Papers concerning John Edgar Burns, and his illness and death in France in 1922; mostly printed; with photographs; partly French; see also 74265 D; 1895-1922.
5. ff. 189-190. Photograph of the Burns family with others ( ? ); [circa 1910-1915]; postcard photograph of Burns with another; n.d. [circa 1910-1920?].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001968431
040-001968433 - Is part of:
- Add MS 74260-74265 : BURNS PAPERS. Supplementary papers of John Elliot Burns P.C., M. P., ( b.1858, d.1943 ), President of the Local Government…
Add MS 74261 : BURNS PAPERS. VOL. II. (ff. 190). Family correspondence and papers; preceded (f. 1.) by verses by Burns, 6 July 1874, beg. 'as we… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001968431[0002]/040-001968433
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 74260-74265
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1922
- Date Range:
- 1880-1922
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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