Identity area
Reference code
GB 249 T-GED/1/8/14
Title
Letters from various correspondents to Patrick Geddes
Date(s)
- c. 5 January - 8 June 1897 (Creation)
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69 ff.
22 docs.
1 bundle
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Scope and content
Contents relate to silk culture; shipping a bull for breeding to Cyprus; non-agricultural work for Armenian refugees; purchase of forests; the situation of the Armenian refugees without work in Nicosia; purchase of farms in Cyprus; the character of Armenians. Also a letter, 26 March 1897, Anna Geddes at Larnaca to unspecified person, giving some account of a journey and the work she and Patrick had been doing. Correspondents include: C. Salmaslian, M. Zimmer, F. Harte, J. Van Millingen, Lionel Fox Pitt, Colin Scott-Moncrieff, N. Rossos, R. Chambers, Andrew Dunlop, Claude Delaval Cobham and Victor Branford. Manuscript and typescript.
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Open
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Language of material
- English
- French
- German