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  • Collection: Kipling Scrapbooks - Letters of Marque

A drawing of the entrance to the Kipling Room

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The item is a drawing of the entrance to the Kipling Room, featured as part of an article for the the Dalhousie Review Vol. 26 No. 2

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Letter of Marque, 1809

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This item is a lettter of marque from Captain Antoine Bollo, conceded on February 27, 1809 by Mr. Dominique Malfino of GĂȘnes, owner of the ship "Furet", a corsair (pirate ship) weighing fifteen 15 tons.

Excerpt and photograph from Ella C. Sykes 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'

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This is a photograph and excerpt from British travel writer Ella Constance Sykes's 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'

Pausanias's Description of Greece (1485 manuscript)

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Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.