Accession number
PML 146395.35
Creator
Hall, Basil, 1788-1844.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At head of p. 1: ansd 23 March.
With postmark on address panel; addressed to: General Paroissien / 21 Grosvenor Square / London.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
With postmark on address panel; addressed to: General Paroissien / 21 Grosvenor Square / London.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In an unidentified hand in red ink below docket: To Genl Parossien the Peruvian Envoy - from Geo. Cooke's papers.
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Concerning a Peruvian mummy (i.e. "the old Inca") he has conveyed for Paroissien from Peru aboard the HMS Conway; with comments regarding the necessary arrangements to be made to get the mummy through customs and the commissioning of a glass case to protect it from the damp English climate prior to its presentation to the British Museum.
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