S&SWM Letters

analysing the activities of a nineteenth-century collector

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As part of the Rethinking Pitt-Rivers project Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum very kindly lent the Pitt River Museum their Pitt-Rivers papers for use by the Rethinking Pitt-Rivers team. As part payment for this kindness Rachel McGoff, a long-term volunteer on the RPR project scanned as many of the papers and letters as possible. The only parts of the collection that were not scanned were those that were larger than A4 in format (because of scanning practicalities), these are mostly the P series - the handwritten drafts of lectures etc.

These papers, a large proportion of the Pitt-Rivers manuscript collection at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, included personal letters sent to General Pitt-Rivers, letters relating to his business dealings, and letters about his museum collections.

See here for a transcription into a database of Michael Thompson's short catalogue of the letters. This was not a detailed catalogue but it does give more information. Our thanks to Loredana Burt for preparing the catalogue.

If you want to quote or use any of these documents, or want any further information about them, then please contact Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum for copyright permission.

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We are very grateful to the Trustees and Adrian Green, the director of the Museum, for their kindness in loaning the ms collection and agreeing to make it public via this website.

'B' Series of Letters

'L' Series of Letters

'M' Series of Letters

'P' Series of Letters

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