- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Heaslop, C. P.
- Title:
- C. P. Heaslop Letters to His Wife
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8s45q8832
- Dates:
- 1870-1880
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of 150 letters (1870-1880) by Major C. P. Heaslop to his wife describing his service in the Royal Marine Artillery while stationed primarily in the Mediterranean.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of 150 letters (1870-1880) by Major C. P. Heaslop to his wife describing his service in the Royal Marine Artillery while stationed primarily in the Mediterranean. Letters from the HMS Resistance are posted from Plymouth, Devonport, Gibraltar, and Lisbon, while those from the HMS Achilles are mainly from the Sea of Marmara, Malta, Constantinople, and various Greek islands.
- Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Heaslop, C. P.
C. P. Heaslop served as a major in the Royal Marine Artillery and, while on the HMS Achilles, was part of the British fleet which was sent to Turkey to deter the Russian threat to Constantinople.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Julian Browning Rare Books (AM1992-117).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
C. P. Heaslop Letters to His Wife; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8s45q8832
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
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- Subject Terms:
- Husband and wife -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 -- History -- Sources. - Genre Terms:
- Letters -- 19th century.
- Names:
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Places:
- Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Sources.
Marmara, Sea of (Turkey)
Turkey -- History -- 1829-1878 -- Sources.
