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Miscellaneous Hellenic Studies Collection

The collection consists of miscellaneous material related to Hellenic Studies.There are folders for Jean François Boissonade, Agalia Ionides Coronio, W. N.Glascock, Dora d'Istria, T. Karatheodorēs, Nikos Kazantzakis, Marie-LouisMarcellus, Emmanuel Miller, Constantine Mususrus, Edouard-Jean-Pierre Perrin,Athanasios Petridēs, Abraham Salamé, En Athēnais Epistēmonikē Hetaireia,Viscount Stratford de Redclifffe, E. M. de Vogüé, Sir George Wheler, and FrankA. H. Young. Correspondents include John Boosey, Prince Roland Bonaparte, EdwardBurne-Jones, Frederick William Burton, Baron Thomas Denham, Frederika Queen ofthe Hellenes, Charles Samuel Keene, Vice Admiral Edward Campbell Rich Owen,Edward Poynter, Jacob Spon, and Walter Leaf. Included is a letter (1865) byEmile Crespin regarding the ravages caused by the Cholera epidemic inConstantinople and Thérapia, in Turkey. Also included are letters (1867) by anunidentified French diplomat, posted in Athens, describing trips he has takenaround the Mediterranean, to such places as Jerusalem, Cairo, andConstantinople. Zosimas II (1686-1746) is represented by a series of threeletters in Latin and Italian (the first signed in Greek) and a Tractatus comprised of sixteen articles in Latin(1736-1737); they were written in the town of Siátista, Macedonia, under Ottomanrule and sent to the Georg Tönnemann, S.J., in Vienna.Later additions include a French autograph manuscript (1946) by Louis Robertdescribing an archeological trip to Turkey and a cotton handkerchiefmemorializing the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878; an autograph album (ca.1896-1916) of nurse Muriel Bois who worked at the Norland Institute (1906) andthe Jenny Lind Infirmary (1907) in England, and who was in Greece (ca.1914-1916), including watercolor and pencil drawings (a number by children) andcontributions by Greek princesses (Olga, Elizabeth, Marina, Margarita, andTheodora); 22 letters (1929-1937) by Prince Nicholas to V. C. Scott O'Connor;and a long letter (1700, copy) by Sieur de Berquin to French administratorMichel Bégon about a diplomatic incident involving French ambassador Charles deFerriol at the court of Mustafa II in Constantinople. nine letters to Soutsos,Michael Vodas (1784-1864) including three letters from his father, Grēgorios,one from his brother, Nikolaos, both written in Greek and one letter from hisson, Iōannēs, written in French, all of the letters dated between 1828-1839; oneanonymous letter dated in August 2, 1725 regarding a miraculous relic in Cyprus;28 letters (1829-1830) addressed to Bory de Saint-Vincent, leader of the Frenchexpedition to Morea during the Greek War of Independence, from officers andother members of the expedition force,relating to the state of affairs in Morea,after a period of anarchy, and other matters of political and scientificinterest; French list of imported and exported products of the island of Crete,their approximate values and the rights to which they are subjected (1834); 11handwritten manuscripts of esnaphia ragiadōn from Constantinople dated in 1834and signed by G.Mantzouranēs; 3 French manuscripts, ca. 1835:--one relating tothe island of Samos, another on the financial state of Greece accompanied by aprinted brochure (1836) prepared by George Finlay containing an essay on theprinciples of bank applied on the state of Greece, the third on the Greekpolitical leaders. The latest addition is a correspondence book containingcopies of 35 letters (1738-1739) by the French trader Charles Guieu, based inSmyrna, to his brothers established in Chania (2nd largest city in Crete),regarding coffee, cotton, indigo and other products sold through Smyrna andConstantinople.The oversize box includes nine pencil drawings by Jules Coignet, made during atrip to Greece and Turkey in 1844, including scenes of Smyrna (Turkey), Rhodes(Greece), Beirut (Lebanon).The collection consists of miscellaneous material related to Hellenic Studies.There are folders for Jean François Boissonade, Agalia Ionides Coronio, W. N.Glascock, Dora d'Istria, T. Karatheodorēs, Nikos Kazantzakis, Marie-LouisMarcellus, Emmanuel Miller, Constantine Mususrus, G. G. Pappadopoulos,Edouard-Jean-Pierre Perrin, Athanasios Petridēs, Abraham Salamé, En AthēnaisEpistēmonikē Hetaireia, Viscount Stratford de Redclifffe, E. M. de Vogüé, SirGeorge Wheler, and Frank A. H. Young. Correspondents include John Boosey, PrinceRoland Bonaparte, Edward Burne-Jones, Frederick William Burton, Baron ThomasDenham, Frederika Queen of the Hellenes, Charles Samuel Keene, Vice AdmiralEdward Campbell Rich Owen, Edward Poynter, Jacob Spon, Compton Mackenzie, andWalter Leaf. Included is a letter (1865) by Emile Crespin regarding the ravagescaused by the Cholera epidemic in Constantinople and Thérapia, in Turkey. Alsoincluded are letters (1867) by an unidentified French diplomat, posted inAthens, describing trips he has taken around the Mediterranean, to such placesas Jerusalem, Cairo, and Constantinople. Zosimas II (1686-1746) is representedby a series of three letters in Latin and Italian (the first signed in Greek)and a Tractatus comprised of sixteen articles inLatin (1736-1737); they were written in the town of Siátista, Macedonia, underOttoman rule and sent to the Georg Tönnemann, S.J., in Vienna.Later additions include a French autograph manuscript (1946) by Louis Robertdescribing an archeological trip to Turkey and a cotton handkerchiefmemorializing the Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878; an autograph album (ca.1896-1916) of nurse Muriel Bois who worked at the Norland Institute (1906) andthe Jenny Lind Infirmary (1907) in England, and who was in Greece (ca.1914-1916), including watercolor and pencil drawings (a number by children) andcontributions by Greek princesses (Olga, Elizabeth, Marina, Margarita, andTheodora); 22 letters (1929-1937) by Prince Nicholas to V. C. Scott O’Connor;and a long letter (1700, copy) by Sieur de Berquin to French administratorMichel Bégon about a diplomatic incident involving French ambassador Charles deFerriol at the court of Mustafa II in Constantinople. Nine letters to Soutsos,Michael Vodas (1784-1864) including three letters from his father, Grēgorios,one from his brother, Nikolaos, both written in Greek and one letter from hisson, Iōannēs, written in French, all of the letters dated between 1828-1839; oneanonymous letter dated August 2, 1725 regarding a miraculous relic in Cyprus; 28letters (1829-1830) addressed to Bory de Saint-Vincent, leader of the Frenchexpedition to Morea during the Greek War of Independence, from officers andother members of the expedition force, relating to the state of affairs inMorea, after a period of anarchy, and other matters of political and scientificinterest; French list of imported and exported products of the island of Crete,their approximate values, and the rights to which they are subjected (1834); 11handwritten manuscripts of esnaphia ragiadōn from Constantinople dated 1834 andsigned by G. Mantzouranēs; 3 French manuscripts, ca. 1835:--one relating to theisland of Samos, another on the financial state of Greece accompanied by aprinted brochure (1836) prepared by George Finlay containing an essay on theprinciples of bank applied on the state of Greece, the third on the Greekpolitical leaders.The latest addition is a correspondence book containing copies of 35 letters(1738-1739) by the French trader Charles Guieu, based in Smyrna, to his brothersestablished in Chania (2nd largest city in Crete), regarding coffee, cotton,indigo and other products sold through Smyrna and Constantinople; 3 mimeographedfolio sheets of Maxwell Anderson’s account of the Nazi atrocities at the Greekvillage of Distomo in June 1944; "Ston Hellēnoitaliko Polemon tou 1940," boundautograph manuscript diary (24 pp.) compiled by the leader of the “skapanisses”of the National Youth Organization (E.O.N.) from 29/10/1940 to 12/01/1941;autograph manuscript (4 pp.) of the Diocese of Caesarea in Cappadocia (1906)written in Karamanli dialect signed by the Metropolitan Amvrosios and otherswith stamps and an authentication dated 1912; notebook of an autographmanuscript report of the Major of the Police Department of Mytilēnē (LesbosIsland, Greece), Grēg. Katsarea, during the German occupation from 1941 to 1942;Max Merten case, autograph and typed manuscripts, 1957-1959; AMs (4 pp.) of theCounty Court of Chania (Greece), 1891 regarding a case where the defendant isEleutherios Venizelos; AMs (30 pp.) of a plan for the reconstruction of thejudicial power in Crete (Greece) signed by I. Skaltsounēs, January 3, 1880; AMs(5 pp.) of an announcement regarding legislative reforms in Crete by thegovernor of the island, I. Phōtiadēs dated Chania, June 12, 1879; 2 letters bythe legislator of Crete, I. Skaltsounēs, regarding the criminal and politicallaw of the island dated 1879; Compton Mackenzie's "Euboea Fifty Years Ago"[1966] manuscript.The oversize box includes 9 pencil drawings by Jules Coignet, made during a tripto Greece and Turkey in 1844, including scenes of Smyrna (Turkey), Rhodes(Greece), Beirut (Lebanon). 4 paper sheets: one Greek manuscript letter (34 x21.3 cm.); one diploma of membership in the Athenian Society of Natural History(47.4 x 39.5 cm.); two broadsides of statutes of the Society both in Greek (42 x31.5 cm.) and German (42 x 31.5 cm.). 4 watercolors by Roxanē Karatza depictingthe genealogic trees of: the family Mavroyeni (1894); the family Antoine Rosetti(undated); the family Callimachi (undated); and the family Diamanti Draco Soutzo(c. 1894). 1 printed leaf (70.3 x 56 cm.) of the constitutional law of Greecedated 1864 and inscribed "To Neon Hellēnikon Syntagma : Eis to onoma tēs hagiaskai homoousiou kai adiairetou Triados. Hē en Athēnais B’ tōn Hellēnōn ethnikēsyneleusis, psēphizei." Text written in six columns; printed frame. At the endof the text we read: "En Athēnais, tē 16ē Noemvriou 1864. Geōrgios A’. Hoproedros tēs Syneleuseōs, Iōannēs Mesēnezēs, Ho Proedros tēs Hieras Synodou,Theophilos - Hoi Hypourgoi K. Kanarēs, S. Sōtēropoulos, A.Ch. Lontos, Th.P.Deligiannēs, A. Koumoundouros, A. Karnalēs.