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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D239/M/F/16415-16432
TitleHenry Gally Knight: Ephemera from continental tour
Date1816-1824
DescriptionIncludes:
Printed pamphlets in German: Constitution of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1816; Speculations about the location of the Varus Battle [also known as the Hermann Battle or Battle of the Teutoburg Forest] 1824; visitor list [c1820s]; announcement of the dissolution of the Cameralherrschaft Althoften and associated guils in the Klagenfurt district 1824; twenty first anniversary of the Armen Anstalt [Institution for the Poor] built in 1803, 1823.

German bills for chaises[?] 1824; export licence / permit for porcelain to be transported to London by Mr Gally Knight 1824; flier for fireworks display [1824]; theatre and concert bills 1824. French proforma giving statistics on prisoners of the Maison Centrale de Detention 1823; similar blank proforma in Dutch for the House of Detention and Discipline of Gent [modern Belgium]. French description of the mausoleum of Marshal de Saxe in the Church of St Thomas, Strasbourg. Italian manuscript report on the death of Giacomo and Beatrice Cencie and of Lucrezia Petroni Cenci, their stepmother in 1599 [1820s].

Visiting cards of Le Comte De Kuefstein, Le Ct Kielmansegge, Grand Ecuyer, Le Comte Roger de Caux.
Extent18 items
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorFitzHerbert family of Tissington
FormatDocument
Printed
TermTravel abroad
Travel

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Gally Knight; Henry (1786-1846); traveller, writer and MP
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