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6 handwritten, unbound quires. Memoranda relating to travels in Middle East
Nottingham Place, London. Athens, 18 October 1833. Details of Gropius's archaeological work on antiquities of Acropolis and old city. Ross's work in Boeotia. Present policy concerning national land. Other land at present on market. George Finlay's property in Attica. Government distribution of land to 'the Captains'. An extract (in Greek) from the Minister of Finance Mavrocordatos defining national property.
1-2 April 1829. Topographical and archaeological notes made while travelling between Mesolonghi and Livadia.
n.d. His copy of L's recent work on Morea not yet arrived but has glanced at copy of British Minister at Agos and sends Tzakonian itineraries which seem missing (Argos-Astros-Lenidi-Palaeocastro-Paleomonembasia) with sketch map.
Transcription of inscriptions found in a late town. Originally from FIN/GF/B/7/13, but with a note from Joan Hussey suggesting the records may belong to FIN/GF/B/7/11.
Athens, 18 October 1837. (Note added 'Read before the Royal Society 14 December 1838'.) Archaeological and topographical details of George Finlay's tour in Cyclades. Critical comments on increasing Austrian influence on Greek policy. List of islands visited in Cyclades with population and taxes paid.
One portrait of George Finlay with medals by Numa Blanc. This portrait reappears pasted into FIN/GF/A/20.
George Finlay to Leicester Fitzgerald Charles. Argos, 31 May 1824
Two of George Finlay's letters, including his reminiscences of Lord Byron, are printed in Leicester F. Stanhope, Greece in 1823 and 1824 . . ., London, 1825, pp. 510-19. F. Stanhope's visiting card pasted inside the front cover.
George Finlay to Leicester Fitzgerald Charles. Tripolitza, June 1824.
Two of George Finlay's letters, including his reminiscences of Lord Byron, are printed in Leicester
F. Stanhope, Greece in 1823 and 1824 . . ., London, 1825, pp 519 - 529
George Finlay to the Revd. Josiah Forshall, British Museum. Athens, 16 December 1850. Suggests purchase of rare Athenian coin by B.M.; sends a cast (stuck on front flyleaf of William M. Leake, Numismatica Hellenica . . ., London, 1856).
Draft letter by George Finlay describing his collection of Byzantine coins, No date. (loose in M. Pinder and J. Friedlander, Die Munzen Justinians, Berlin, 1843).
Handwritten itineraries by George Finlay bound in William Gell, The ltinerary of Greece . . ., London, 1819, pp. 317 ff.
Paper covers, printed cutting pasted up and bound.
An article by George Finlay from the Saturday Review, 11 April 1869, and a duplicate of FIN/GF/E/55.
On the front flyleaf is a note by George Finlay:
'The author was induced to write this paper from observing the general ignorance of the historical side of the ecclesiastical dispute between the Greeks and Bulgarians manifested both by the Greek and English newspaper writers in the east. Athens 25 March 1869. George Finlay.'
At the end 6 notes on the sources are appended in George Finlay's hand.
Blue mottle, faded cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine 'Statistics and Foreign Affairs and Literature', unpaginated, except for pp. 1-7, bound.
A scrap-book containing a few pasted-up cuttings (pp. 1-7) and many loose ones for 1869-72. Most of these do not deal with Greek or east Mediterranean affairs but illustrate George Finlay's wide range of interest (e.g. reviews of Forster on Dickens, Mrs. Oliphant on George II, cuttings on the Fenian troubles).
Miscellaneous notes. Unbound, handwritten except for FIN/GF/E/54/6.
Characters': rough notes mainly on Greek or British diplomats or political figures (e.g. Sir E. Lyons, Mavrocordatos, King Otho, Thomas Gordon) .
Trade of Greece with Trieste 1843.'
Copy of an article, headed ' "On the change which the treaty of 1871 closing the Dardanelles to ships of war will create on the policy of Great Britain written during the mission of Server pasha to Egypt when there was supposed to be danger of the Porte attacking the Khedive" inserted in "The Times" of the 19th Oct long after it was written for it was sent to England in July'.
A number of random bibliographical notices.
Water-supply of Athens' (in Greek, with rough notes in English).
Green board, printed cuttings pasted up, bound, paginated by George Finlay pp. 1-23. Cuttings from the Saturday Review with George Finlay's corrections and addenda.
Listed by George Finlay thus:
(1) 31 December 1870. 'The Eastern Question'.
(2) 17 April 1869. 'The Bulgarian Question', with notes in George Finlay's hand [duplicate in FIN/GF/E/50].
(3) 'Brigandage in Greece.' '27.3.71.' added in George Finlay's hand on p. 17.
Note added by George Finlay in this index though the articles are not pasted up here:
'Other articles inserted in the Saturday Review
6 February 1869. Constitutional Government in the East.
8 January 1870. Panslavism and Panhellenism.'
Green mottle boards, green cloth spine, indexed alphabetically, handwritten with loose cuttings and 1 letter, bound.
Brief notes arranged alphabetically and mostly relating to modern Greece, with some cuttings from Greek newspapers and 1 letter dated 'Athens 19 November' (from W. B. Smyth thanking him for the loan of a book).
Handwritten, unbound octavo quires, paginated by George Finlay.
A collection of papers, scraps, and notes labelled '"Progress" and Miscellaneous Memoranda'.
Notes on 'Democratic Monarchy in Greece'
The prospects of George I King of the Greeks
Prospects of the new Dynasty on Greece' (undated). In paper enclosure by George Finlay.
Events in Greece, November, 1865'. Paper enclosure by George Finlay.
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.
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.
Manuscript notes. Miscellaneous, mostly on Byzantine Greece.
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.
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.'
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.