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- 1875-1909 (Creation)
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2 files
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GB 0120 MSS.6902-6903 1875-1909 Collection (fonds) 2 files Kitchener , Horatio Herbert , 1850-1916 , 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome , Field Marshal
MS. 6902 was purchased at Sotheby's, 6 May 1930, lot 384. MS. 6903 from Puttick and Simpson's, 17 November 1922, lots 421-425, 427-430.
Letters of Horatio Herbert Kitchener, mainly relating to his service in the Near East and the Sudan.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
English
Described in the Library's typescript supplements to its published manuscript catalogues.
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Jan 2009 Armed forces Military organizations Military service Empire Organizations Kitchener , Horatio Herbert , 1850-1916 , 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome , Field Marshal Sudan East Africa Middle East
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
MS. 6902 was purchased at Sotheby's, 6 May 1930, lot 384. MS. 6903 from Puttick and Simpson's, 17 November 1922, lots 421-425, 427-430.
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Letters of Horatio Herbert Kitchener, mainly relating to his service in the Near East and the Sudan.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Described in the Library's typescript supplements to its published manuscript catalogues.
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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English