BIB_ID
129402
Accession number
MA 9360.1
Creator
Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, Earl of, 1800-1870.
Display Date
1856 January 15.
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Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1983.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Clarendon gives the place of writing as "F.O.", probably standing for "Foreign Office." He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1853-1858 and again in 1865-1866.
Marked "Private."
Written on mourning stationery.
Previously accessioned as MA 3944.
The "Lord Stratford" mentioned in Clarendon's letter is most likely Stratford Canning, who was Ambassador to Constantinople from 1842 to 1858. "Kertch" may be the city of Kerch in Crimea.
Marked "Private."
Written on mourning stationery.
Previously accessioned as MA 3944.
The "Lord Stratford" mentioned in Clarendon's letter is most likely Stratford Canning, who was Ambassador to Constantinople from 1842 to 1858. "Kertch" may be the city of Kerch in Crimea.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1983.
Summary
Writing that he has no objection to "your communicating my note and the address to Lord Stratford from the refugee Jews from Kertch to the London Committee of Jews, as you propose."
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