Record

RefNoMDA/H/1/12
LevelFile
TitleCorrespondence on a scheme for the the purchase of Down House
Date1925-1927
DescriptionLetters on the possible purchase for the nation of Down House in Kent, the home of Charles Darwin. The original scheme was initiated from America and the file contains letters of Henry Fairfield Osborne, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Down House was eventually bought with the aid of Sir Arthur Keith and the British Association for the Advancement of Science: a newspaper cutting in this file, from the Morning Post of 1 September 1927, gives a brief outline of this.

An original Council Document file: laid before Council for meetings of 2 December 1926 and 12 May 1927.
Extent1 file
FormatTypescript
Typescript copy
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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