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1851 Exhibition Correspondence

Commissioner’s correspondence relating to the Great Exhibition of 1851

    LORD WODEHOUSE

    13 - 24 May 1853. Lord Wodehouse to Edgar Bowring

    13 May 1853

    Loose manuscript papers | 4 document (8 pages) (whole object) | RC/A/1853/84

    (84-84iii) Lord Wodehouse, Foreign Office, to Edgar Bowring transmitting despatches from HM Government at The Hague, and from HM Chargé d'Affaires at Hamburg regarding Presentation sets of volumes for the Governments of the Netherlands and Hamburg.

    • Creator(s)

      Lord Wodehouse (writer)

      Edgar Alfred Bowring (1826-1911) (addressee)

      G Lloyd Hodges (writer)

      George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-70) (addressee)

      CH Merek (writer)

      G Lloyd Hodges (addressee)

      General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801) (writer)

    • 4 document (8 pages) (whole object)

    • Place of Production
      Hamburg [Germany]
    • Object type(s)
        • printed & manuscript material
          • documents
            • correspondence
      Language(s)
      English
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