Scope and Contents In 1955 Lord Taylour photographs various locations in England, France, Italy, Sicily and Greece, including Hever Castle, Paris, Rome, Monreale, Siracusa, Athens, Venice, Stratford-on-Avon and Cambridge colleges. This is a varied album, comprising of images of ancient Greek and Roman architectural sites and artwork, castles, churches and cathedrals, views of streets, Renaissance art, and landscapes, as well slides of Cambridge colleges and a fantastic image of Laurence Olivier and Vivien...

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Printed; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Athens Greek translation

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Scope and Contents Diary covering Charles Peake’s time from 2nd December 1956 to 5th April 1957 when he worked as British Ambassador to Athens.Subjects covered include: work on departmental papers for the Colonial Policy Committee (CPC); discussions with colleagues on Cyprus constitutional affairs; Anthony Eden’s difficulties in re-establishing relationships with the White House [in the post-Suez era]; meeting of the CPC; addressing CPC at Downing Street; meeting colleagues at Brooks’s Club;...

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Letter from [James W?] Westlake to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Athens

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Letter from Theodore von Heldreich to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Athens

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Letter from Theodore von Heldreich to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Athens

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Letter from Theodore von Heldreich to Sir Francis Darwin; written at Athens

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Letter from William Erasmus Darwin to Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; written at Athens

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Scope and Contents Observations and results of a survey of the Parthenon and associated buildings in Athens, containing notes on the state of the buildings and on the size of parts and components, with several sketches of parts. The survey appears to have been written as a report on restoration work that was being undertaken and to have been carried out to prove that later buildings were modelled on those which preceded them. The folder also contains short essays on various topics, including refraction,...

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This collection comprises nearly 3,000 epigraphic squeezes (paper impressions) made by Dr Michael B. Walbank of Greek inscriptions excavated by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCS) in the Athenian Agora and other sites in Attika and Corinth, Greece. It also includes notebooks, photographs, index cards and working papers which suppported research upon and publication of these inscriptions.