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Prince Albert's Papers

Correspondence relating to the planning and organisation of the Great Exhibition

TREASURY [GB]

10 Apr 1862. Treasury to the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851

10 Apr 1862

Loose manuscript paper | 1 document (4 pages) (whole object) | RC/H/1/18/38

Copy of a letter concerning the intention to purchase a plot of land on the South Kensington estate for the British Museum Natural History collection. Enclosed with letter from Edgar Bowring (RC/H/1/18/37).

Related Material: For related material see RC/H/1/18/37.
  • Creator(s)

    Treasury [GB] (writer)

    Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 (addressee)

  • 1 document (4 pages) (whole object)

  • Place of Production
    Treasury Chambers, Whitehall
  • Language(s)
    English