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A collection of 98 letters and postcards dealing with collections and objects of antiquarian interest. Following no. 3 are two photographs of various flints, and following no. 28 a sketch, taken from a local paper, of the 'old bascule bridge and harbour at St Augustine's'.

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A catalogue of manuscripts, books, coins and miscellaneous antiquities in the possession of George Bird Burrell. Fos 3 and 65-84 are blank. Inside the front cover is the bookplate of G.B. Burrell.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises mostly Joseph Bonomi's correspondence and papers, with some of his brother Ignatius Bonomi and other members of his family, especially his sister-in-law Isabella Mary Martin. The non-family correspondence includes letters with Samuel Birch, Egyptologist at the British Museum, George Spencer Cautley, rector and poet, Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, John Gibson, sculptor, James Haliburton, Egyptologist, Robert Hay, Egyptologist, Owen Jones, architect, Edward Lane,...

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Attached to fo. 1: bookplate of Samuel Parr.

Scope and Contents A classics notebook compiled apparently by Richard Williamson, 231 folios. There are loose sheets in the volume from a printed work, one of which has the manuscript note 'Mr. E.R. Williamson. To the care of Revd. D. Williamson Deans Yard Westminster'. According to a list of contents and subject index on folios ii-iv, the book is divided into three sections, 'geography and places', 'philosophy and persons' and 'antiquities and things', which, however, are intermingled in the text. On fos...