Thomas Young: Correspondence and papers

Scope and Content

Letter from M.A. Nicholson about engravings of inscriptions in the British Museum, London, 11 Sept 1818 with 2 engravings of a hieratic manuscript in the possession of the Earl of Mountnorris. They were found among the papers of George Airy and the versof one of the engravings is addressed to Airy, 4 Oct. 1827.

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Acquisition Information

Transferred to the Library from Cambridge University Observatory. They were found amongst the papers of George Airy.Transferred from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 2013

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