| RefNo | 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 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedRecord | MC/3/61 |
| CMP/1/125 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | 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 |