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NEWB2/353
Title
Harden, Donald Benjamin - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1939 - 1948 (Creation)
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0.5 cm, 34 letters
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(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)
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Correspondence from Donald Benjamin Harden (Ashmolean Museum) and draft replies from Newberry including relating to donations to the Ashmolean Museum and Newberry's research.
Includes correspondence relating to: Newberry leasing his house to St Thomas's Hospital during the Second World War; donation of Newberry's embroidery collection to the Ashmolean and Liverpool Museum; donation of Newberry's collection of millefiori glass fragments from Alexandria; donation of Howard Carter material; research including on bows and the figure-of-eight shield; drawing of the Scorpion Macehead requested by Newberry.
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MSS 23/62-95