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Day in the Life

Nov 3, 1840

Journal Entry

November 03, 1840 ~ Tuesday

3rd We recieved one letter from Osmond Shaw
Elder Smith & myself again visited the British Musieum
I having formed a private or intimite aqcquaint
ance with Mr W. Palmer the keeper of the Egyptian
Antiquities & It being a private day not open to
public exibition he accompanied us through the vario
us appartment & spent several hours in explaini-
ng to us the most important things relating to th
e whole collection of Egyptiam Jewish Greek & Rom
[a]n antiquities which were vary interesting
Among the hundreds of thousands of things exhibited in
thes gallery's of Antiquities, Is the Portland Vase which
was found about the middle of the sixteenth century two
miles & a half from Rome in the road leading from Frasca-
ti which is the ownly thing of the kind now knowm
in the world. We also saw Napolian Bonaparts private
Snuff Box which cost 300 Guinea's. We saw the Tomb
of Allexander the great. The head of Nero & Trajan the
God Ammom. Lamps from Babylon, a piece of the Tower
of babel, many relics from the ruins of Herculaneum and
Pompei &c

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7 mentions
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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1380 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Bonaparte, Napoleon of France
15 Aug 1769 - 5 May 1821
30 mentions
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7 mentions
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Shaw, Osmond
1822-1888
16 mentions
Trajan of Rome
53 AD-117 AD
6 mentions
Historical Figure
2 mentions

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British Museum, London, Middlesex, England
Frascati, Papal States, Italy
Herculaneum, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
On the George A Smith and myself again visited the Museum. I having formed an acquaintance with the keeper of the Egyptian antiquities and it being a private day he accompanied us through the various appartments and spent several hours in explaining the most important items of history of the collection of Egyptian Jewish Greek and Roman antiquities I had a specimen of [[Guy Fawkes|Guy

Nov 3, 1840