Queen Victoria Letters

Date:
28 Jun 1938
Reference:
PENROSE/1/2/2
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
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Queen Victoria Letters. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Description

Photocopies and typed transcripts of two letters from Queen Victoria to Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford. The originals, dated 31 October 1839 and 24 April 1848, appear to have been in L S Penrose's possession but later sold.



Includes one letter dated 28 June 1938 from E G Rendall of the British Museum to Penrose stating that the letters above do not appear in The Letters of Queen Victoria: a selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861, edited by A C Benson.



Letter from John Wilson, antiquarian manuscript and bookseller, to L S Penrose regarding a valuation of the letters and Wilson's interest in purchasing them.

Publication/Creation

28 Jun 1938

Physical description

21 folios

Copyright note

The letters from Queen Victoria are Crown copyright until 31 December 2039. The present custodian of the original letters is not known. Copies are supplied for the Wellcome Digital Library under the Open Government Licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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