About the George Finlay Papers
The George Finlay Papers contain materials created by and related to the British Historian and Philhellene George Finlay, his father John Finlay, Greek-American Philhellene George Jarvis, and British Philhellene Captain Frank Abney Hastings, dating from 1791 to 1949. Most of the collection consists of George Finlay’s meticulous records of his travels, personal and official correspondence, his personal expenditures, copious memoranda on strategy and on military and political organisation, journal entries, maps, facetiae, scrapbooks, personal notes on people—Greeks and others—and on revolutionary events, newspaper cuttings mainly on Greece and international affairs, as well as Finlay’s original manuscripts of the History of the Greek Revolution (1861) as well as corrected proofs of Finlay’s other published works.
Also included are the papers of Finlay’s father, John, two journals of Greek American philhellene, George Jarvis, and those of Finlay’s fellow British philhellene, Captain Frank Abney Hastings. The Hastings papers, which Finlay purchased in 1830, include personal and official correspondence, ship’s logs, notes that he took on board or ashore, as well as memoranda on strategy and on the naval organisation of the revolutionary forces. Collectively, these records reveal a great deal about the character, motivations, ideas, as well as the military and political judgements of these British individuals, as well as of many others, both British and Greek, with whom they interacted during the Greek War of Independence as well as many of Finlay's other interests, such as Classical and Byzantine history, natural history and politics.
Handwritten, unbound foolscap sheets, unpaginated.
Letter, undated, from Photiades+9 foolscap sheets containing jottings and lists of coins, i.e. Byzantium, Trebizond, Armenia, kings of Sicily, Bibliography, Coins of England.
J. Photiades to George Finlay. Athens, n.d. Re possibility of purchasing George Finlay's collection of coins (loose; in French). 1 p.
Brown mottle, leather spine and corners, bound, handwritten, paginated pp. 1-258+2 sheets inserted and unpaginated.
George Finlay's entry on front flysheet:
'Catalogue of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and English coins with some Byzantine Seals and a few Modern Medals, in the possession of George Finlay. Athens, 1864.'
Some loose sheets. A number of detailed notes including Byzantine series+some red ink notes [? sold or donated, e.g. to British Museum]+a few notes on Antiquities (pp. 225-58+4 sides inserted).
Loose sheets with notes on objects purchased by George Finlay.
List of antiquities in the British School at Athens museum
Royal blue cloth, printed, with George Finlay's notes and letters to John Leicester Warren, gilt lettering on spine: 'Achaian League. Warren. Finlay. Vischer', bound.
Four printed pamphlets indexed by George Finlay as follows:
(1) John Leicester Warren, 'The copper coinage of the Achaean League' [Numismatic Society, London, 1864], pp. 1-19, interleaved with George Finlay's observations+3 letters in French to him pasted in.
1. Baron A. von Prokesch-Osten to George Finlay. Constantinople, 2 May 1866.
Regrets ill-health has prevented visit to Athens. Comments on failure of European powers to give to Greece a genuine constitution. Congratulates George Finlay on his numismatic work; comments on coinage of Achaean League (in French). 3 pp. (Bound in 'Copper Coinage' at p. 24.)
2. Baron A. von Prokesch-Osten to George Finlay. Constantinople, 2 November 1866. Comments on coinage of Achaean League. Europe has deprived Greece of fruits of her struggle. Notes George Finlay's continuation of his Greek Revolution. (Bound in 'Copper Coinage' at p. 25.)
3. Baron A. von Prokesch-Osten to George Finlay. Constantinople, 15 February 1869. Comments on his collection of Achaean coins (in French). 1 p. (Bound in 'Copper Coinage' at p. 26.)
(2) G. Finlay, 'Thoughts about the coinage of the Achaean League' [Numismatic Society, London, 1866], pages 1-15 interleaved.
(3) J. Friedlander, 'Ueber das Gewicht der Silbermünzen Philipps II von Macedonien', pp. 165-73.
(4) W. Vischer, 'Ueber E. A. Freeman's History of Federal Government', pp. 1-48 [offprint from Neues Schweizerisches Museum, 1864].
Dark-green cloth, printed and handwritten, 'Finlay-Roman Money' on spine, bound.
Contents listed by George Finlay as follows:
Notice of ten Byzantine copper coins presented to British Museum
Letter of thanks from British Museum 1854
Appendix to Greece under the Romans [printed]
(I) On the blindness of Belisarius
(II) On Roman and Byzantine money
(III) On the site of the Holy Sepulchre
Observations on the coinage of the Achaian league
Letter to the Hon. John Leicester Warren on coins of ΑΛΕΩΝ [see letter (1) below]
Achaian copper coins. University of Athens [sent to Mr Warren]
List of coins presented to Professor Felton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets, 1858
Letter to Professor Comnos of Athens on an unpublished coin ascribed to Athens in his collection [see letter (2) below]
Observations on the relative value of the As and obolos in Greece under the Roman emperors
There are also loose sheets (mostly on numismatics) and drafts of letters.
(1) George Finlay toJohn Leicester Warren, 32A Brook St., London, W. Athens, 28 December 1868. Copy of letter on Achaean coins (unfinished; bound in at p. 63).
(2) George Finlay to Professor S. Comnos, Athens. Athens, 27 September 1862.
On an unpublished coin ascribed to Athens in C's collection. George Finlay's dating; comments on Roman and Athenian coins.
(Rough drafts of letters on same subject including two to Professor Felton, incomplete, loose at end: 14 pp.; 7 pp.; 7 pp.)
Brown mottle, brown calf spine, leather corners; handwritten, unpaginated, 'Tacitus' pasted on spine, bound with a few loose cuttings.
'The Life of Julius Agricola by C. Cornelius Tacitus, Translated.' Written in copperplate hand with some pencil corrections, and a few random notes on Balkans, Austria, and Prussia in George Finlay's hand.
Black cloth, bound, paginated, gilt lettering on spine: Greece under the Romans.
G. Finlay, History of Greece under Foreign Domination, in five volumes, vol. i, Greece under the Romans, 2nd edn. (Blackwood, London, 1857), pp. i-xxxiv, 1-580.
Page proofs corrected by George Finlay mounted on blue sheets and his addenda and corrigenda mostly bound up with the page proofs; some loose sheets and cuttings.
See also FIN/GF/C/17 [Q. 9. 2] for printed appendices to second edition (Belisarius, Money, Holy Sepulchre).
Black cloth, bound, gilt lettering on spine: 'History of the Byzantine Empire, vol. I A.D. 816 (sic)-1057'.
G. Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII; 2nd edn. (London and Edinburgh, 1856), pp. i-xii, 1-542.
Page proofs corrected by George Finlay and mounted on blue sheets with his addenda and corrigenda; there are also a few loose sheets with George Finlay's historical notes.
Black cloth, bound, gilt lettering on spine: 'History of the Byzantine Empire, vol. II, A.D. 1057-1453'.
G. Finlay, History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from DCCXVI to MCCCLIII, in two volumes, vol. ii (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1854). Interleaved as D. 3 with addenda and corrigenda; a few loose sheets with George Finlay's historical notes.
Brown mottle with calf spine, pp. 1-221+index sheets A-W, handwritten, bound, 'Varieties' pasted on spine, paginated. Indexed alphabetically by George Finlay.
Various notes mostly on Greece or the Byzantines. Heading on p. 197 'Works illustrating the period of my first volume' is left blank.
Dark-green cloth, gilt lettering on spine: 'Medieval Greece and Trebizond. G. Finlay', bound.
G. Finlay, History of Greece from its Conquest by the Crusaders to its Conquest by the Turks and of the Empire of Trebizond 1204-1461 (Edinburgh and London, 1851), pp. i-xiv, 1-519.
Interleaved with addenda and corrigenda. A few loose sheets with notes.
Dark-blue cloth, black calf spine (broken), printed. Three printed works of George Finlay bound together with a few corrigenda in text in his hand.
(1) 'Observations on the characteristic features of Byzantine history' [from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, iv, N.S.], pp. 1-64, date at end: Athens, 27 March 1851.
(2) The Last Pages of the History of the Last Greek Republic, Malta. Printed at the British Press. Read on the evening commencing the session 1852-3 at Literary and Scientific Institute of Malta, pp. 1-17, preface dated 1 January 1853.
(3) 'Observations on the causes of the rapid conquests of the Ottoman Turks in Europe' [from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, v, N.s.], pp. 1-21, n.d.
Dark-green cloth, printed. Duplicate of item (1) in FIN/GF/D/7 with ink corrigenda and addenda in George Finlay's hand, pp. 1-64.
Blue mottle boards, brown calf spine, 'Byzantine History M.S.' in gilt on spine, handwritten, bound, paginated pp. 1-130.
Translations from Byzantine authors, with some comments by George Finlay. Contents listed by George Finlay at beginning of book as follows:
Memorial of the Athenians (by Michael Akominatos) to the emperor Alexius III (from Tafel's Thessalonica)
Extract relating to Athens [from Tafel, op. cit., p. 459]
Leo Diaconus. Extracts from his history which relate to the Bulgarian and Russian wars during the reigns of Nicephorus II, John I and Basil II
Fragments relating to the conquest of the Tauric Chersonnesus by the Russians from the notes of Hases's ed. of Leo Diaconus (p. 254, ed. Paris)
Fragments of a discourse by Theodoulos Magister concerning the incursions of the Catalans and Turks (Anecdota Graeca, ed. Boissonade, ii, p. 219)
Discourse on behalf of Chandrenos addressed to the emperor Andronicus II
Extracts from the Book of Accounts or Tax register called, of Augustus Caesar
Extracts from the New Book of Accounts or Tax register of the emperor Alexius I (Montfaucon, Analecta Graeca, p. 369)
Note explanatory of the two last articles and particularly of the tax register of Alexius I (Zonaras, ii, p. 298, ed. Paris)
The Charter under the golden seal or Golden Bull of the emperor Alexius I granting the island of Patmos to the monk Christodoulos, and relating to the privileges conceded to the monastery of St. John to be founded in the said island translated from the original given by Dr Ross in his Reisen auf den griechischen Inseln, II. Band [pp. 119-85]
Brown mottle, dark-brown calf spine, 'Byzantine History' pasted on spine, handwritten, paginated by George Finlay pp. 1-73 (the rest is blank), bound.
Translations from Byzantine authors. Listed by George Finlay as follows:
Extracts from Nicetas relating to the taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders Reign of Alexius III, Book 3, section 9
Second reign of Isaac II and his son Alexius IV
Reign of Alexius V Murzuphlos
Events after the taking of Constantinople during the reign of Baldwin (in Greece)
Names of officers at the Byzantine Court
Fragment concerning the foundation of Monemvasia and the establishment of the Sclavonians in the Peloponnesus (transl. from Tafel, Symbolarum criticarum geographiam Byzantinam spectantes partes duae, Pars I, p. 58)
Memorial of George Gemistos Plethon to the Emperor Manuel II concerning the state of the Peloponnesus [this item is unfinished]
See also FIN/GF/C/11 [R. 9. 8], item 13, translation of Cameniates on the taking of Thessalonica by the Saracens, and FIN/GF/E/40 [R. 8. 28], p. 94, extracts from Cedrenus.
Black cloth with black calf spine worn off, handwritten, paginated by George Finlay pp. 1-158, the rest blank, bound.
Translations
(1) The annals of George Phrantzes protovestarius [= pp. 1-137, pp. 138-45 are blank].
(2) An Account of the Last taking of Thessalonica by John Anagnostes briefly composed at the request of a noble friend [pp. 146-58].
The rest of the book is blank and unpaginated.
Green envelope folder containing quires of paper (17 x 22), sewn but unbound, handwritten, unpaginated, editions used not cited by George Finlay.
Translations in MSS. by George Finlay. Translations of Byzantine historians.
(1) (Memorial) Address of Plethon to the Emperor Manuel concerning the affairs of the Peloponnesus. Translated, February 1852.
(2) Letter of George Amiroutzes to Bessarion. It appears to have been written about the end of 1461, the year in which Trebizond was taken. Translated, March 1852.
(3) A Dialogue of the Dead. Sojourn of Mazaris in Hades or questions of some of the dead concerning members of the imperial society. Translated March 1852.
(4) [Some notes by George Finlay] State of Society, of religion, law, science and literature, art [also on the Slavonians, loose sheets paginated pp. 1-6].
Red mottle boards, green suede spine much worn, indexed alphabetically and each letter of the alphabet paginated separately, handwritten, printed lettering stuck on spine: 'Topography. History. Literature', bound.
Topographical and Historical Notes: many on the islands especially Cyclades giving references (mostly to medieval period).
Information listed alphabetically with further subject headings at end: Geographical works; Topography and Walls of Constantinople; Characters; Books; Turkey; Literary.
A few random notes, mostly bibliographical, on Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Greece. Large amount of loose notes and clippings.
Black cloth, black calf spine, printed.
(1) G. Finlay, On the Site of the Holy Sepulchre with a Plan of Jerusalem (London, Smith Elder and Co., 1847), pp. 1-48 (with George Finlay's ink corrigenda).
(2) A. Schaffter, Die ãchte Lage des heiligen Grabes . . . (Bern, 1849), pp. i-x, 1-93.
(3) Letters stuck in at back:
1. John Evans to George Finlay. Malta, 15 March n.y.
To introduce Mr. Dickson who intends to visit Athens. Appreciation of George Finlay's historical work. 2 p.
2. N. Dragoumis to George Finlay. n.d.
Appreciation of George Finlay's work on site of Holy Sepulchre. 2 pp.
(4) Loose cutting, review of T. Lewin, Jerusalem, in The Critic, 28 December 1861.
(5) Two plans of Jerusalem (loose).
Unbound notes and papers. Notres on Byzantine Greece, Saracen conquests, Ottoman empire, blindness of Belisarius.
Handwritten, notebook, pp. 1-48, the rest unpaginated [S. g. 6]. Byzantine notes by George Finlay 'Byzantine Greece: a historical view of the condition of the Greek nation under the government of the Byzantine emperors A.D. 717-1453'; some loose jottings.
Large quarto, 'carbon' copy, pp. 1-6 [S. 9. 7]. 'Appendix I. Note on the blindness of Belisarius.'
Large quarto, 'carbon' copy in George Finlay's hand, pp. 96-134+4 unpaginated sheets. [R. 8. 17]. 'The history of conquests of the Saracens.' Six lectures delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution by Edward A. Freeman.
Large quarto, 'carbon' copy in George Finlay's hand, unpaginated. 'Observations on the ancient history of the Turkish nation and on the earliest political institutions of the Ottoman empire.'
Brown mottle, cloth spine and corners, paginated pp. 1-89, mostly news paper cuttings pasted up, with 2 reviews of George Finlay's work (Fraser's Magazine, vol. 30, Oct. 1844, and The Scotsman, 25 June 1850) and 2 letters (L. Sgouta, 18 April 1863 and Cornelius Conway Felton, n.d.) loose, not in his Index, bound.
Listed by George Finlay on p. iii thus:
Reviews of and Observations on the writings of George Finlay.
Portraits of George Finlay aged 43 and 60.
Greece under the Romans published in 1843, 2nd ed. 1857
Blackwood's Magazine Oct 1844 by Thomas De Quincey, author of the confessions of an english opium eater
The North American Review Jan 1846 by Professor Cornelius Conway Felton LL.D. Notice of President Cornelius Conway Felton by Herman J. Warner of Boston 1862
Medieval Greece and Trebizond published in 1851
The Spectator July 26 1851
Britannia Aug. 16 and 23 1851
Athenaeum Aug. 23 1851
Edinburgh Advertiser Aug. 29 1851
Guardian Nov. 19 1851 and in Morning Chronicle
Allgemeine Zeitung 1851 by Dr Fallmerayer
History of the Byzantine empire, l. vol. 1st ed. 1852 2nd ed. 1856, II. vol. 1854
The Standard May 28 1853
Globe May 28 1853
Scotsman June 25 1853
Leader Sept. 9 1854
The Rambler New series No. IX September 1854
The North British Review No. XLIV Feb. 1855 by E. A. Freeman
Greece under Othoman and Venetian domination 1856
The Athenaeum May 24, 1856
Press May 31, 1856
The Leader May 31, 1856
Guardian June 18, 1856
The Saturday Review June 28, 1856
Critic July 1 and 15, 1856
Spectator July 19, 1856
The History of the Greek Revolution 2 vol. 1861
The Athenaeum Decr 14,1861
Glasgow Citizen Decr 21, 1861
Press Decr 21, 1861
Daily News Decr 26, 1861
Spectator Decr 28, 1861
Critic Dec 28, 1861
Guardian Feb 5, 1862
Examiner Jan 4, 1862
Bells Weekly Messenger Jan 25, 1862
Albion (Liverpool) Jan 23, 1862
Kolnische Zeitung February 25, 1862
The Saturday Review March 1 1862
The Edinburgh Evening Courant March 1, 1862
The Anglo Hellenic Witness Jany 1862 by Edward Masson
The Christian Examiner Boston Massachussets May 1862
Art VII. The Greeks by Herman J. Warner Esq.
The London Quarterly Review No. XXXIX April 1863
Art VI. Greece and the Greeks
The Edinburgh Review No. 240, Vol. CXVI April 1863
Art X. p. 590. The Greek Revolution
The Christian Remembrancer Vol. XLVIII No. CXXV July 1864. Art. VIII.
Finlay's Greek Revolution
'H IIaveM71viK l:71µa{a, 8 'lovvlov 1865
Finlay's history of the Greek Revolution
The National Review Jany 1864 Mediaeval and Modern Greece (pencilled commentary of Finlay)
On the site of the Holy Sepulchre Pamphlet 1847
The Classical Museum No. XVII, October 1847.
Notices of recent publications
Extract from Revue des deux mondes 1 Juillet 1865
Extract from Neue Fragmente aus dem Orient von Dr Jacob P. Fallmerayer
Remarks on the topography of Oropia and Diacria with a map. Pamphlet. Athens 1838
Bulletino dell'lnstituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica No. Vlb Giugno 1839. Opuscolo di Finlay. G. Abeken
North British Review No. XLII August 1854 Art V. Greece under the Macedonian period
North British Review No. XLIV February 1855 Art II. The Byzantine empire-Finlay
NB. These two articles were written by Edward A. Freeman, M.A. late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, author of History of Federal Government from the foundation of the Achaian League to the disruption of the United States. Volume 1. London· and Cambridge 1863.
Fraser's Magazine No. CCCCI May 1863: A day at Athens by Miss Frances Power Cobbe
Black cloth, bound, lettering on spine 'Greek Revolution 1.', handwritten, paginated pp. 1-219.
George Finlay's MS. draft of his History of the Greek Revolution.
Black cloth, bound, lettering on spine 'Greek Revolution 1821-1843', handwritten, paginated in part only, 406-700 (= part of a 'carbon' copy book of transfer paper).
George Finlay's MS. draft of his History of the Greek Revolution.
Black cloth, bound, lettering on spine 'History of the Greek Revolution Book X 4-5', handwritten, paginated i-ix, 1-424, followed by transfer paper paginated 551-65, 924-36.
George Finlay's MS. draft of his History of the Greek Revolution.
A letter loose at p. 129, in French. Myhrberg to Col. Th. Gordon. Affairs of Piraeus; defeat of Church. [Note by George Finlay on letter: '27 April/9 May 1827. Account of the battle of Cape Colias by a Philhellene who escaped. I think it was written by Myhrberg and addressed to Gordon but cannot recollect how it came into my possession. See Gordon, History, ii. 471'.] 4 pp.
Black cloth, handwritten, bound, gilt lettering on spine 'History of the Greek Revolution. Supplementary chapter 1844-1864', paginated by George Finlay, I-II, 1-209. A supplementary chapter to George Finlay's History of the Greek Revolution, with Appendix. 'Constitution of Greece 1864', pp. 191-209+loose press cuttings from Allgemeine Zeitung,
14 August and 26 August 1855.
Dated (p. 190) Athens, May 1866.
Letter: W. Stuart to George Finlay. 17 March 1872. Re loan of George Finlay's 'Supplementary Chapter' [1844-64]; and the other two volumes of the History of the Greek Revolution (stuck on front flyleaf, 2 pp.).
Paginated, large quarto, handwritten, unbound. Miscellaneous notes
Athens 27 May 1854 Memorandum ('carbon' copy, pp. 1-8).
Carbon' copy entitled 'Brigandage in Greece', pp. 1-4.
Memorandum and Supplementary Chapter on the Government of Otto and Revolution of 1862', 9 loose sheets+pp. 1, 3, 4.
Quarto, unbound, handwritten. Notes on Greek affairs.
Historical Sketches of the Albanians, the Modern Greeks and the Greek Revolution by An Observer.' 'Carbon' copy, paginated by George Finlay i-xx. This appears to be a plan (chapter and section headings) for a work on the Greek Revolution though it is not identical with any of the printed volumes. It also contains (pp. xv-xx) a Preface which does not appear in the printed volumes of 1861.
Observations on the reform of the Greek Ministry of the Marine. Athens 6 February 1855' (pp. 1-14, with notes on pp. 15-17).
Observations on the condition of Greece in 1854', 'carbon' copy (pp. 1-31).
The 'top' copy of (c) but with the author's corrections and amendments (pp. 1-31).
Brown mottle with brown calf spine, gilt lettering on spine 'Chronology of Greek Revolution', handwritten, paginated by George Finlay, bound, with loose sheets and letter. Contents listed by George Finlay:
'Chronology of the Greek Revolution in which the dates are inserted as far as possible from the best authorities following the authority of persons present when such testimony is obtainable', pp. 1-241.
Bibliography of the Greek Revolution, pp. 242-53+a loose sheet p. 230, inserted between p. 241 and p. 242.
Loose papers at back are listed below.
Letter of George Finlay to Alick [Finlay]. n.d., inserted at October 1862. Rough draft of letter on revolts in Greece (unfinished) br> Newspaper AYΓH, 13 June 1862.
Death notice for Helene Leutwein, 1861.
Death notice for Sir Thomas Wyse, 1862.
List of Greek newspapers.
Note on Greek state budget.
Notes on Mills' History of the Crusades.
King's printed response to first constitutional draft voted by national assembly, 31 October 1864. Loose in FIN/GF/08 Timeline of the Crusades.
Historical note on medieval France.
Note on the French revolutionary months with their names.
List of cabinet members for Spain and France.
Population of Turkey.
Notes on the Ionian islands.
Note on Orlov revolt.
Death notice of Kuriakos Pittakis, 1863.
Budget of economic administration of the state, January 1833 - December 1843.
Blue mottle board, faded cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine 'Greek Documents from 1821', bound, unpaginated. This contains documents, notes, and letters all loose. George Finlay never pasted up any of these and they have been placed in a separate green manilla folder 26 X 37 cm
(1) Nikolaos Laspas, Secretary (grammatikos). Ioannina, 29 April 1821.
Circular to Greek captains re Sultan's order (firman) punishing Greek population for revolutionary activities (in Greek). 2 pp.
(2) Patriarch Gregory of Constantinople. 1821.
Excommunicates Michael Soutso and Alexander Ipsilantis and condemns Greek revolution; appreciation of Turkish privileges to Greek population (in Greek). 6 pp.
(3) E. Trelawny to George Finlay. The Cavern of Ulysses, Mount Parnassus, 27 May 1824.
T's arrival at Parnassus with supplies for Odysseus. Criticism of Mavrocordatos and his activities at Mesolonghi. Mention of Fenton, Byron, Gordon, Millingen. 4 pp.
(4) S. G. Howe to George Finlay. 6/18 December 1829.
Discusses mutual plans. Comments on Capodistrias's policy. 3 pp.
(5) E. Trelawny to George Finlay. n.d.
To arrange to meet George Finlay. 1 p.
(6) E. Trelawny to George Finlay. Argos, 1824.
Comments on arrival of Colocotronis and Mavrocordatos. Invites George Finlay to visit Fenton on Parnassus. 2 pp.
(7) Col. Fabvier to Capt. F. A. Hastings. Ambelakia, 23 October 1826. Regrets inability to supply H with men and money (in French). 1 p.
(8) Col. Heideck to F. A. Hastings [1826].
Heideck's project for defence of Athens; need to cut off Turkish supplies from Euboia; Greek control of sea essential (in French). 1 p.
(9) J. C. Hobhouse to F. A. Hastings. London, 12 December 1826.
Promises support. False accusations against members of Greek committee by ex deputies Orlando and Luriotis. Dispatch of assistance to Greece. Cochrane's plans. 4 pp.
(10) Capt. T. Sackville Crosbie. Enterprise, Plymouth Sound, 22 April 1827. Reports on state of his ship Enterprise. 3 pp.
(11) T. Gordon to Capt. F. A. Hastings (of the Karteria). Cairness, 18 November 1827. Appreciation of Hastings's military qualities and activities. Satisfaction at Battle of Navarino. G regrets having left Greece. 3 pp.
(12) Col. T. Gordon to Capt. F. A. Hastings. n.d. Memorandum on Phaleron expedition. 2 pp.
(13) n.d.
Notes (or extracts from a letter) on activities of Odysseus. 1 p.
(14) n.d.
Notes on treacherous activities of Odysseus. 1 p.
(15) Mytica, 30 September 1828 and 4 October 1828. Reports on entrance of Gulf of Preveza. 2 pp.
(16) Odessa, 25/27 October 1828.
'Extracts.' A report on blockade of Varna and position of Russian army. 3 pp.
(17) S. G. Howe to George Finlay. Egina, 4 December 1828.
Topographical and archaeological information on Tomb of Agamemnon at Mycenae and other Mycenaean ruins in Argolis. Political events at Poros; Capodistrias's unfair policy. Comments on Cochrane's retention of Hastings's property. 2 pp.
(18) S. G. Howe to George Finlay. Egina, 5 January 1829.
Offers George Finlay hospitality in Egina until his house there is free; suggestions for improving port of Egina. 3 pp.
(19) J. Hane to George Finlay, Egina. Vaffé, 15/27 March 1829.
Anarchy in Crete and situation of Candia; his acceptance of the Presidency of the Cretan symboulion [in place of Rheineck, who was recalled by the Greek government]. 2 pp.
(20) J. Cartwright to George Finlay. H.M. Rifleman, off Tenedos, 14 June 1829.
Invitation to visit him in Constantinople. Comments on Capodistrias's role in Greek affairs. 4 pp.
(21) K. Kyrouras (?). 14 June 1829.
Description of Turkish attack on Greeks at Anephoriti (?) (in Greek). 2 pp.
(22) (Sent to George Finlay) June 1829.
Instructions given by electors of Corinth to their deputies, said to have been written by Capodistrias (in Greek). 2 pp.
(23) June 1829.
Note by Fridericus Bialloblotzky on German colonists in Greece (in Latin). 1 p.
(24) G. Lee to George Finlay. Argos, 12 August 1829.
c/o J. Cartwright, H.B.M.'s Consul-General, Constantinople.
Details of Greek Assembly and Senate; Capodistrias's salary; new Greek coinage. Personal news of philhellenes. George Finlay's house during his absence. 3 pp.
(25) S. G. Howe to George Finlay, Egina. Isthmos, 10/22 November 1829.
Discusses Greek political situation and Capodistrias. Difficulties of the 'colony'. 4 pp.
(26) S. G. Howe to George Finlay. Isthmos of Corinth, 25 November 1829.
Offers George Finlay superintendency and administration of 'colony' and property at Corinth; optimism re future revenues of estate. [In March 1829 Capodistrias had granted Howe land at the Hexamilion near Corinth, in order to found a settlement for refugee Greeks.] 3 pp.
(27) S. G. Howe to George Finlay, Athens. Isthmos, 14 December 1829.
Account of plundering activities of pallicaria in Roumeli. H's measures to protect colony's estate from irregular troops. 3 pp.
(28) S. G. Howe to George Finlay, Egina. Nauplion, 20 December 1829.
Re affairs of colony; needs priest and schoolmaster; present disorders; public criticism of Capodistrias. 3 pp.
(29) S. G. Howe to George Finlay, Egina. Isthmos, 15 January 1830. Near disaster off Salamis. Activity of pallicaria. 2 pp.
(30) 9 April 1830.
Views of senator Tatzi Manginas on Greek national policy (in Greek). 3 pp.
(31) Nauplion, 10/22 April 1830.
Reply of Greek Senate to Capodistrias's communication re protocol of 3 February 1830 (in Greek). 8 pp.
(32) Clonaris to Col. T. Gordon. Argos, 28 April/4 May 1831.
Political situation in Greece; activities of Maniates; restriction on liberty of press; position of islands; Mavrocordatos at Hydra; Zaimes's submission to Capodistrias (in French). 4 pp.
(33) 10 May 1830.
Congratulations to Prince Leopold from Chiots at Syra (in Greek). 2 pp.
(34) B. Chales, A. Manoussayiannes, and G.Tsouderos to Capt. Perronel, 14 May 1830.
Answer of Cretan chiefs to Perrone! expressing their faith in Cretan cause and decision to fight for liberty (in Greek). 3 pp.
(35) S. G. Howe to George Finlay, Liverpool. Boston, 13June 1831.
Requests information on Greece and 'colony'. Rejoices in Capodistrias's fall. He is now editor of new daily paper in Philadelphia; political situation in the U.S.A. 4 pp.
(36) Athens, 14 May 1854.
Statement of king of Greece confirming Greek neutrality towards Turkey. Sir Thomas Wyse's reply (in French). 1 p.
(37) G. Gropius's memorandum on new monetary system for Greece (in French). 3 pp.
(38) n.d.
Approximate calculation of Greek revenues (in French). 3 pp.
(39) George Finlay's jottings on various offences committed against Greece, 'Greece, July 1831'.
Yellow-brown mottle board, bound, calf spine, 'Middleton and Napier' pasted on spine, paginated, handwritten with printed newspaper-cuttings pasted up but not bound in.
George Finlay's note on front flyleaf.
'These letters were given me by Mr. George Brown of London, a friend of Lord Cochrane, in 1826.
The memorandum of a plan of campaign in the Peloponnesus was written for me by Colonel Charles Napier, C.B. in the quarantine at Ancona the same year.'
Two letters from R. D. Middleton, Master of the Maria:
(1) Account of the Egyptian Expedition against the Morea to 26 September 1824, written from Bodrum, 26 September 1824, to Joseph Lachlan, pp. 1-60.
(2) Egyptian Expedition till 25 November 1824, written from Marmarice 25 November 1824 to Joseph Lachlan, pp. 1-14.
(3) 'On Monembasia as the base of military operations Colonel Napier.' Memorandum, pp. 1-6+map of Peloponnesus and position of troops, pp. 7-8. [Printed in George Finlay, History of the Greek Revolution, vol. 11, pp. 390-2, London, 1861.]
(4) Cutting of printed review of Life . . . of General Sir Charles James Napier by W. Napier, from The Times 8 April and 10 April 1857.
Faded blue cardboard, very worn leather spine, at one end of spine 'Extracts from Newspapers relating to Greece', at other end 'Extracts from Newspapers', bound with some loose material.
Miscellaneous press cuttings (English, French, German, Greek) dating from 1807 to 1863, the majority ranging from 1826 to 1863, some pasted up, others loose, in poor state of preservation being badly rubbed at outer edges. Some additions in George Finlay's hand and some loose handwritten sheets on case of Mr. King, the American missionary.
Paper covers, bound, printed, mostly uncut.
List of Treaties etc., vol. iv (in English and French), n.d., on Greek Affairs 4 April 1826--30 April 1833 (see Index under Bavaria, Great Britain, and Greece).
Grey mottle board, red leather spine and corners, 'Miscellaneous' pasted on spine, bound, handwritten, paginated by George Finlay, pp. 1-132 (+about 60 pp. blank).
Various Greek Memoranda 1822-43.
Contents listed by George Finlay as follows:
Three letters addressed to the Athena a Greek newspaper published at Nauplia in 1833
Memoir read in the Society of Natural History at Athens giving an account of my discovery of a deposit of fossil bones at Pikermi 13 Decr 1836
Memorandum 22 Decr 1836
Memorial presented to the King of Greece 15 March 1836
Reflections on reading Aristotle's Politics
On the condition and prospects of Greece. I think this was never printed in this form.
Petition to H.M. the King of Greece on the subject of the tenths as the land tax
Memorandum of an article written for the Athena 6/18 Sept. 1838
Draft of Petition for a Bank circulated among the landed proprietors of Attica and Euboea 7 July 1837
Extract of a letter which appeared in the Morning Chronicle Nov 1839
Memorandum on the state of Education in Greece
Note on the modern Greek language by Revd H. D. Leeves
Anecdote illustrating the condition of the Greeks in Turkey
Translation of Hattisheriff read on the appointment of Grand Vizier 12 Nov 1822
Translation of writing placed on the corpse of Kurkor Duzoghlou 16 Oct 1829
Paper circulated through Greece by Lord Stranord George Finlay on his return from the Congress of Verona in 1823
Letter of Lord StranGeorge Finlayord to the Patriarch on Ionian church
Answer of Patriarch 23 FebY 1823
Patriarchal and Synodical Epistle for the consecration of Archbishops and Bishops
in the Septinsular Ionian States Feby 1823
Act of the Greek people offering to place themselves under the protection of Great Britain
Correspondence relating to the appointment of the Revd H. D. Leeves as Chaplain to the British Legation in Greece 1843
Translation of a letter by the Duchess of Plaisance relating to her donations of money to the Mavromichales family and Mr Tricoupes
Revenue and Expenditure- Greece and England
Loose cuttings, handwritten notes and letters. With paper enclosure by Joan Hussey.
Cuttings on various topics from The Times and Globe and other papers.