Reference number | MC/3/62 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from John Backhouse, Foreign Office, to the Marquis of Northampton [President of the Royal Society] |
Date | 27 December 1839 |
Description | Enclosing a copy of a dispatch from the Consul General at Alexandria [Colonel Patrick Campbell] regarding magnetic observations in Egypt.
[Four enclosures are present and are consecutively labelled MC/3/62a-62d. Each enclosed letter has an extent of two pages. They contain copy letters from Boghos Joussoff [Boghos Bey Yusufian] to Colonel Patrick Campbell (62a and 62c), and from Campbell to Viscount Palmerston [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] (62b and 62d). Letters from Yusufian are in French.]
[Read by Council on 9 January 1840.] |
Language | English |
French |
Extent | 9p |
Format | Manuscript |
Access status | Open |
Related records in the catalogue | MC/3/61 |
CMP/1/125 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA2272 | Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton | 1790 - 1851 |
NA2495 | Temple; Henry John (1784 - 1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston | 1784 - 1865 |