Call Number:

C0785

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Dunn Gardner Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1855-1859 (inclusive)

Creator:

Gardner, John Dunn

Form:

Journals -- 19th century. and Manuscripts -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of selected papers of John Dunn Gardner, a nineteenth-century high sheriff of Cambridgeshire, England.

John Dunn Gardner was a nineteenth-century high sheriff of Cambridgeshire, England, who traveled a great deal in Europe, Greece, and Turkey.

The collection consists of selected papers of Gardner. Included are a journal of a trip, primarily by rail, through Paris, Western Europe, on to Constantinople and other cities and villages in Turkey, from October 1855 to January 1856, with some reference notes in Greek; an autograph manuscript and notes for Gardner's pamphlet, "The Ionian Islands in Relation to Greece..." (1859), discussing the governing policy of England over these islands which were under a British protectorate from 1815-1864; and clippings of reviews of the work.