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COLL P 01 05 074

Reference code

COLL P 01 05 074

Title

Provost Goodall: Letter to [William Goodall]

Level

Item

Date

22 October 1833

Extent & medium

1 item

Content description

Consecration of new cemeteries, one formerly a garden behind the Chapel, the other a wood yard to the west of it. Dined at Windsor Castle and spoke to the Queen; description of dinner in the Waterloo Gallery the following day. Court news; Captain Ross [Sir James Clark Ross, 1800 - 1862, polar explorer] has returned. 'He bore an incessant fire of royal interrogatories with great tact'; discoveries relating to magnetic pole; animals seen. Drawings of Eskimo women shown.

Physical characteristics

ALS. 1 leaf

Associated material

Etoniana p. 538
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