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George Finlay to Charles Thomas Newton. Athens, 4 October 1842. Details on excavations by Beulé of the Ecole Française at the entrance of the Propylea. Thiersch's excavations at temple of Athena Polias. Thiersch's views on Greek need for oxen from Asia Minor and for agricultural development rather than salaries and uniforms for officials and generals.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. Mytilene, 3 April 1855. Acknowledges receipt of new volume of George Finlay's Byzantine History and comments on this. N's excavations at Calymnos; discovery of a bronze group; invites Finlays to visit him. With an old paper enclosure.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. Rome, 6 May 1860. Incomplete state of index of Corpus of Byzantine authors; can find no reference to Halicarnassus Museum or Cnidus. Can George Finlay supply information on Caria in Byzantine authors?
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. British Museum, 2 September 1863. Regrets cannot furnish Hopf with medieval inscriptions of Mytilene. Sir Frederic Madden knows of no copy of capitulation of towns in Morea. Possibilities of selling model of Parthenon in England. Proposal to bring fragments of the Lion of Cheronea to Athens to inaugurate reign of George I.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. Hôtel des Etrangers, Athens, 19 December 1863. Thanks George Finlay for his kindness and returns books lent (with a copy of lamps and a bronze plate with inscription).
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. British Museum, 22 July 1864. Re possible publication of Hahn's memoir on Troy in Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature. Discussion about payment of N's subscription to the Greek Ελπις. Is glad to hear of Hahn's discoveries at Bournabashi but does not believe this to be Troy.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. British Museum, London, 25 November 1864. Decision of Royal Society of Literature to publish van Hahn's paper in its Transactions. Thanks George Finlay for political news.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. British Museum, 5 March 1865. To introduce General Fox who is revisiting the Levant. 1 p.
George Finlay to Charles Thomas Newton. 7 December 1865. Discovery of Attic amphora on the road to Sounion with inscription and figure of Athena Pronoia. Detailed description, sending a sketch. Political affairs in Greece; failure to put law into execution; need for communal institutions and expenditure of revenue on objects of public utility. With old paper enclosure.
Charles Thomas Newton to George Finlay. British Museum, 6 July 1869. Asks whether Ephemeris Archailologike came out from 1859 to 1862 and was continued from 1863; would like a complete set, also any other publications of the Archaeological Society. Reference to a seventeenth-century MS. containing description of Chios and the Giustiniani in possession of the Bishop of St. Davids.