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Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke, 1810-1895 (diplomat and Assyriologist)

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates, 31 October 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/31
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates telling Geikie that has sent him a copy of an address by Sir Henry Rawlinson (not attached) which will give him information concerning Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's connection with the Royal Geographical Society. He gives an additional reference and promises further information will follow.

Dates: 31 October 1874

Letters from Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke to Charles Lyell, 15 March 1851-1 April 1851

 File — Box Box 1.11: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/221
Scope and Contents

Letters are summarised by Lyell as:
1) Nineveh bricks
2) Babylonian Cylinder mongoos[sic mongoose]

Dates: 15 March 1851-1 April 1851

Rawlinson, Henry, 19th century

 File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 2
Identifier: Coll-2106/98
Scope and Contents Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895), decipherer of cuneiform, Autograph Letter Signed.1 Letter - No date given. Addressed to 'Mr Hall', Rawlinson writes that Menant's grammatical work (referring to Joachim Menant, who worked on the Assyrian palace library) is not very valuable, but should still be kept in the Athenaeum Club Library alongside 'Elements d'Epigraphie Assyrienne'. Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short typed note of purchase information and summary of...
Dates: 19th century