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Alexandria, Egypt (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Flanders-France Diary 1915, 16 Jan.-2 Dec. 1915

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/9
Scope and Contents The bound volume contains a transcription of the diary entries found in the exercise books listed at MS Add.10082/6-7 and multiple items pasted into the volume. These include photographs, pencilled sketches by HATF, hand-drawn coloured maps, printed maps, clippings from newspapers and magazines, postcards, pamphlets and circulars, French bank notes. The volume was assembled sometime after the First World War and contains a few non-contemporaneous notes and comments.The diary begins...
Dates: 16 Jan.-2 Dec. 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library.
 File

From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, 6th [Bn] East Lancashire Regt, Alexandria, 25 May 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/81
Scope and Contents

Is unaccountably held up in Alexandria en route to Mesopotamia; the city; a useful phrase book; Lowes Dickinson's The European Anarchy

Dates: 25 May 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Letter from Nicolo Dolfin in Venice to Blasio Dolfin in Alexandria

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4120
Scope and Contents

The letter discusses the trade in jewels, pearls, slaves [i.e. enslaved people] and other commodities with the countries of north-western Europe and the Near East. Signed holograph on two sides. Wafer seal on silk.

Dates: 24 Apr. 1420
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Letter to Wilfred Airy from George B. Airy, 7 May 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10452/1/9
Scope and Contents

Concerning Wilfred's visit to Egypt, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and Alexandria.

Dates: 7 May 1886