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1851 Exhibition Correspondence

Commissioner’s correspondence relating to the Great Exhibition of 1851

      HM ADDINGTON

      20 - 30 Apr 1853. H.M. Addington to Edgar Bowring

      20 Apr 1853

      Loose manuscript papers | 2 documents (4 pages) (whole object) | RC/A/1853/70

      (70-70i) H.M. Addington, Foreign Office, to Edgar Bowring enclosing a copy of a letter from the French Ambassador in London announcing that an Exhibition of Agricultural and Industrial Products would be held in Paris in May 1855.

      • Creator(s)

        HM Addington (writer)

        Edgar Alfred Bowring (1826-1911) (addressee)

        Alexandre Florian Joseph, Count Colonna-Walewski (1810-68) (writer)

        George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-70) (addressee)

      • 2 documents (4 pages) (whole object)

      • Place of Production
        London [Greater London]
      • Object type(s)
          • printed & manuscript material
            • documents
              • correspondence
        Language(s)
        English
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