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CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE
GB 0074 Q/CN · Collection · 1877-1880

Papers, 1877-1880 and undated, relating to Cleopatra's Needle, comprising two photographs of the ship Cleopatra at Alexandria {1877}; drawing of the Cleopatra by John Dixon, undated; manuscript copy of memoranda made on board the SS Olga towing Cleopatra, 1877; letters concerning the abandonment of the Cleopatra, 1877; cuttings from The Times concerning the salvage of the Cleopatra {1878} and the erection of Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment, 1878; two copies of an account of expenditure incurred in transporting and re-erecting the Needle, 1880; Cleopatra's Needle visitors' book, 1878; drawing, undated, of hieroglyphs, and tracing, 1877, of Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Needle; two copper plates apparently formerly attached to the monument relating the story of the transhipment etc, 1878; offprint of a paper on Cleopatra's Needle delivered to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1880.

Various.