Cairo (inhabited place). Africa - Egypt - Urban - Cairo. Longitude: 31.2500. Latitude: 30.0500.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Letters to Grant Bey (James Andrew Sandilands Grant) and members of his family.
File
Identifier: MS.15976
Scope and Contents
James Grant (1840-1896), a physician working in Cairo, collected Egyptian antiquities, and his correspondence includes letters on both archaeological and medical topics from well-known figures in these fields. There are few references to contemporary events in Egypt and much of the correspondence concerns visitors to Cairo.
Dates:
[?1869]-1923.
Photographs of Patrick Leigh Fermor and others in Venice, Athens, Cairo, Lebanon and post-war Denmark., [1939-1945].
File
Identifier: Acc.13338/625
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
[1939-1945].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
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Photographs, sketches and other visual material.
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Photographs, slides and negatives.
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World War II photographs.
Printed maps of North Africa.
File
Identifier: Acc.11150
Scope and Contents
Used on a journey by Michael Strachan and J Enoch Powell between Algiers and Cairo in 1943, many containing notes by the Strachan on their progress.
Dates:
circa 1943.