Extract from Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Sir Edmund Lyons

Department Archive
Collection George Finlay Papers
Reference No. FIN/GF/B/05/021
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 22 x 35 cm
Dates 25 November 1865
Donor/Creator
Scope and Content Extract from Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Sir Edmund Lyons, 25 November 1843.
Notes 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.