Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS46/A/1/6/5
TitleAlbanian feeling
Extent1 item
Date1880
DescriptionShort note in an unidentified hand, headed "Albanian Feeling", about the strong sense of national identity and desire for independence among the Albanian people. Written on the reverse of a bill of exchange, dated 10 May 1880, addressed to Sir Henry Layard by John Elijah Blunt, requesting payment of £16 0s. 4d. for expenses incurred by J. Alvarez.

[NOTE: Justin Alvarez, who worked under John Elijah Blunt at Salonica, later became British Consul at Benghazi and subsequently Consul-General at Tripoli].
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