David Finlay to George Finlay, 12 Apr 1847
| Department | Archive |
|---|---|
| Collection | George Finlay Papers |
| Reference No. | FIN/GF/B/09/017/01 |
| Dimensions | 11 x 18 cm |
| Dates | April 1847 |
| Donor/Creator | |
| Scope and Content | David Finlay to George Finlay. H.M. Ship Rodney, Piraeus, 12 April 1847. Hopes to meet George Finlay (stuck on front flyleaf of Alexander Finlay, Letters on a Journey to Bombay . . . in 1834-5, printed privately, 1837). |
| Notes | Where conservators have backed fragile letters onto sturdier paper, the reverse has not been scanned. Some shots appear to be upside-down, but Finlay had a habit of writing on one side of a piece of paper then turning it over vertically, so that the next side appeared upside down. Finlay sometimes also begins writing in a book from the front, then turns it flips it over and starts writing from the back, upside-down. When this is the case, the writing at the back can appear upside-down. There is some inconsistency in page counts. Joan Hussey counted sides as pages, so a letter with three leaves would have six pages. This has been left intact in the ‘Scope and Content’ field, but in the ‘Extent and Medium’ field, the pages of letters have been counted by counting leaves of paper – so a letter of three leaves would have three pages. Many records are undated, so will not appear in a search with a date range. Locations have been added as tags if they are explicitly mentioned in the ‘Scope and Content’ field, apart from FIN/GF/B/09, when the location of the publication and title is not included. Items were chosen to be digitized according to the relevance to the 1821 Greek Revolution and their fragility. Loose items found in books were generally shot in a standard method. First the front of the item was shot as it was found in the book, then it was shot on its own, then the back, then the book without the item. Where a large number of blank pages has appeared in an item, a blank page insert has been added, to avoid using the digitization budget on blank pages while also helping the researcher to understand the physical item. Greece was one of the last European countries to adopt the newer Gregorian calendar. For most of the nineteenth century, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian. British correspondents in the Finlay Collection tend to use the newer calendar. Letters with two dates 12 days apart, eg. 24 April / 6 May 1828, refer to both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. |