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Notebooks of Eliot Curwen FSA

Reference code
CUR
Title
Notebooks of Eliot Curwen FSA
Date
mostly 1910-40
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Nine notebooks and unbound papers.
Scope and content
Nine field notebooks, etc., of Dr Eliot Curwen, MB, FSA (d. 1950), containing observations of sites and antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland;. See obituary, A.J., 30 (1950), 237.

Included are many sketches of camps and cromlechs, etc., and a few photographs (in CUR/05-07). Indexes in CUR/01-03, 08, 09.
Creator
Curwen, Eliot (1865-1950), surgeon, traveller, antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/803/1-10
SAL/MS/803
Archival history
Presented by Dr E.Cecil Curwen, son of the compiler, 1958 (two letters, 28, 31 Jan. 1958, with the collection).
Related units of description
Correspondence and papers of Eliot Curwen are held by the Sussex Archaeological Society (https://sussexpast.co.uk/research/library).

Correspondence between GP Burstow and Eliot Curwen is held in the West Sussex Record Office (https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure-recreation-and-community/history-and-heritage/west-sussex-record-office/).

A report on Peking (Beijing) and Letters from Eliot Curwen are held by the SOAS Archives (http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/).
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