Autograph letter : Hagley, Rugeley, Haffordshire, to Cureton, 1845 Jan. 1.

Cureton,

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Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873

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English archaeologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Lady Rawlinson, [no year] Jun. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584733 Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church College, Oxford, Robert Curzon traveled widely in Egypt and Palestine in search of manuscripts during 1834 and visited Mount Athos in 1837. He was later attache ́at the British Embassy in Constantinople. His Visits to the monasteries of the Levant appeared in 1849. Curzon w...

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...