Comprises: (1) Modern transcript of letter from Mark Firth (1819-1880), St Petersburg, to Sarah Firth (1843-1927), 1858; (2) Photocopies of British passport issued to Stanley van Buren Laing (1884-1962), Tientsin, 1910; (3) Modern prints and negatives of Japanese postcards of Port Arthur after Russo-Japanese War; (4) Photocopies of postcards of Japanese views; (5) Photocopy of Konstitutsiia (Osnovnoi zakon) Soiuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Leningrad, [1978]
John Laing collection
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1132
- Dates of Creation
- 1858, [1900s], 1910
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English Russian Japanese
- Physical Description
- 13 ff., manuscript, typescript, printed (photocopy), photographs, and negatives
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
John Laing is descended from members of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of John Laing, September 1990
Note
In English, Russian, Japanese
Other Finding Aids
A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm