Letter from Samuel Birch
Reference code
SAL/01/03/011/003
Title
Letter from Samuel Birch
Date
17 December 1848
Level of description
item
Extent and format
5 pp.
Scope and content
Expressing regret for not attending Council; also a sale of a volume and prints; also mentions Egyptian and oriental antiquities, Buddhist architecture, the Journal of Classical Antiquities, the Hellenists, the city of Carthage, and Emperor Severus and his son Caracalla.
Creator
Birch, Samuel (1813-1885), Egyptologist and antiquarian
Archival history
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