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MARKHAM
(Sir Clements, 1830-1916, Geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to Edward A. FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian), saying he was very glad to see your two volumes at last, and the clear maps - which it is most pleasant to read by the light of; I had had to make several to read the proofs with. The vols will go with us to Sicily, and I look forward... to going over some of the ground with them. Mr Conway... to attempt a volume of about 300 pages on the arts and crafts of the inhabitants of this island from our first glimpse of them to the beginning of Norman influence; I assume that this includes buildings, roads, implements, inscriptions and things in general that were made or imported; now written about in hundreds of scattered papers and numerous books, all to be condensed and brought to bear upon the history. There will also be much travelling and examining of sites, a year or two of work - but I am not yet quite committed to it. Boyd Dawkins had undertaken to write the book, but found he had too many other things to do and got out of it. I should be much obliged it you would send me a letter of introduction to Mr Stigand at Palermo..., 3 sides 8vo., on crested paper, 21 Eccleston Square, 23rd March
Item Date: 1891
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Markham was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888] and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1904, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott. Sir William BOYD DAWKINS (1837-1929) was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man. William Martin CONWAY, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, (1856-1937), was an art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia. In 1892, in the course of an exploring and mountaineering expedition undertaken under the auspices of the Royal Society, the Royal Geographical Society. FREEMAN was an historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician, a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily.
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