Introduction
A
Official papers
A.1 Official letters, mainly
1830-6
A.2 Official papers,
1830-6
B
Private papers
B.1 Journals,
1830-5
B.1.1 Journal kept by Colonel Baker for most of the period
27 Mar. 1830-2 July 1835
B.1.2 Journal of Mrs. C.J. Baker for most of the period
1 Jan. 1832-3 May 1836,
B.2 Correspondence and a few other miscellaneous personal
papers, mainly
1826-36
C
Printed papers and maps
| Abstract: Papers of Colonel George and Mrs. Caroline Julia Baker, 1809-1857, mainly relating to the period of Colonel Baker's office as British representative on the Greek Boundary Commission. |
| Official letters to Colonel George Baker, concerning
his appointment to and work with the Greek Boundary Commission,
1830-6 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 263 Extent: 112 leaves Scope and Content: With a single letter of 1838. The letters include dispatches from the Foreign Office, some of them signed by successive Foreign Ministers: to Nov. 1830, the Earl of Aberdeen, Nov. 1830-1834, Lord Palmerston, and 1835, the Duke of Wellington; and at fol. 41 a letter in Greek from Hussein Bey, the Turkish representative on the Commission, 15 Oct. 1832. |
| Letter-book containing copies of official letters from
Colonel Baker,
9 Sept. 1830-1832 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 264 Extent: 1 + 213 pages Scope and Content: At p. 191 rev. is a list of contents, complete for 1830-1, but including only the dispatches to the Foreign Office for 1832. |
| Letter-book containing copies of official letters from
Colonel Baker,
1833-1 Oct. 1835 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 265 Extent: iii + 88 leaves Scope and Content: At fol. iiiv is a list of dispatches sent, 1833-6. |
| Letter-book containing copies of official letters from
Colonel Baker,
1 Oct. 1835-1836, with five letters dated
1838-9, and two dated
1857 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 266 Extent: i + 30 leaves Scope and Content: At fol. 21 is a letter to Baker from Lord Ponsonby, 20 Apr. 1839. |
| Official papers,
1830-6 Shelfmark: Dep. b. 136 Extent: 145 leaves Scope and Content: Loose in a contemporary folder, comprising
At fol. 1 is a list of letters and dispatches received by Baker, 12 Sept. 1830-4 Aug. 1831, bound into the folder. |
| Various papers,
1830-6 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 267 Extent: i + 31 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises
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27 Mar. 1830-5 Mar. 1831 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 52 Extent: iii + 59 leaves Scope and Content: At fols. 55v, 54v is a list of letters written by Baker, Aug. 1830-June 1831, and at fol. 56v a list of letters received Sept. 1830-Apr. 1831. |
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6 Mar.-13 June 1831 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 53 Extent: iii + 70 leaves Scope and Content: At fol. 17 are statistical notes on Malta. |
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14 June-18 Nov. 1831 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 54 Extent: iv + 85 leaves Scope and Content: At fols. iiv, 82v is a list of letters written and received, 2 July-7 Nov. 1831. |
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4 Mar.-16 Sept. 1832 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 55 Extent: iv + 76 leaves Scope and Content: At fol. 70v is a list of letters written and received during this period. |
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17 Sept.-15 Dec. 1832 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 56 Extent: iii + 85 leaves Scope and Content: With (fols. 79v, 81v) lists of letters written and received during this period. |
| 16 Apr.-15 June 1833,
17 Apr.-8 May 1834 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 57 Extent: i + 54 leaves |
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1 Sept.-30 Nov. 1834 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 58 Extent: 30 leaves |
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18 Apr.-2 July 1835 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 59 Extent: i + 59 leaves Scope and Content: At fol. 41 is a sketch map of the Dardenelles showing gun batteries. |
| Balls Park, Hertfordshire, and Corfu,
1 Jan.-9 Sept. 1832 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 60 Extent: ii + 52 leaves |
| Corfu,
9 Sept. 1832-31 May 1833 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 61 Extent: ii + 65 leaves |
| Zacynthus (Zante),
1 May-1 Dec. 1834 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 62 Extent: ii + 33 leaves |
| Nauplion (Nauplia),
1 Apr.-16 Dec. 1835 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 63 Extent: ii + 35 leaves |
| Athens, Nauplion and London,
7 Dec. 1835-3 May 1836 Shelfmark: Dep. e. 64 Extent: i + 73 leaves, 42-73 blank |
| Family letters from Colonel Baker, many of them to
Mrs. Baker,
31 Mar. 1830-22 Nov. 1831 Shelfmark: Dep. d. 215 Extent: 181 leaves Scope and Content: Numbered and mounted in a guard-book, with (fol. 1) a list of contents in the hand of Mrs. Baker. At fol. 176 is another list of family letters from Colonel Baker, and of (fol. 178v) letters from Mrs. Baker to him, Aug. 1830-Nov. 1831. |
| Similar guard-book containing letters from Colonel
Baker to Mrs. Baker,
29 May 1832-20 Jan. 1836 Shelfmark: Dep. d. 216 Extent: i + 155 leaves Scope and Content: Numbered 1-53, with (fol. iv) a list of contents in Mrs. Baker's hand. The list of contents is continued in Colonel Baker's hand with a list of other family letters, 1832-6, numbered 54-97 but these were not mounted in this volume and are now Dep. c. 268 below. |
| Similar guard-book containing letters from Mrs. Baker,
mainly to her mother, Mrs. Barker,
8 Mar. 1832-29 Apr. 1836 Shelfmark: Dep. d. 217 Extent: 117 leaves Scope and Content: With (fol. 1) a list of contents in Mrs. Baker's hand. |
| Baker letters,
1828-36 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 268 Scope and Content:
A letter from Colonel Baker to his mother, dated 11 Feb. 1834, numbered 66, is missing. |
| Letters to Colonel Baker,
14 Apr. 1831-8 Mar. 1836 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 269 Extent: 294 leaves Scope and Content: Mainly from Colonel A. de Scalon, the Russian Commissioner, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. Barthelemy, the French Commissioner, with, from 1834 onwards, some from Lieutenant W.C.B. Wilson, and Captain Francis Dunne, Baker's assistants. At fol. 151 is a medical report on Wilson and Dunne by Dr. Zehlex at Carpenisi, Nov. 1834. |
| Other papers of Colonel Baker,
1809-49 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 270 Extent: 100 leaves Scope and Content: Comprises
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| Itinerary book of 24 routes in North
Greece Shelfmark: Dep. f. 26 Extent: iv + 172 pages Scope and Content: In the hand of Colonel Baker in similar form to those published by Sir William Gell for other parts of Greece (see Dep. f. 27 below). At page 166 is a list of the routes described. |
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Protocols of conferences held in London
relative to the affairs of Greece [nos. 30-51],
1832 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 271 Scope and Content: Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, bound up with earlier papers relating to the Greek boundary question, presented to Parliament in May and June 1830. |
| Frédéric Thiersch,
De l'état actual de la Grèce et des moyens
d'arriver à sa restauration, 2 vols. (Leipzig,
1833) Shelfmark: Dep. d. 218 |
| Sir William Gell,
The itinerary of Greece containing one hundred routes in
Attica, Boeotia, Phocis, Locris and Thessaly (London,
1827) Shelfmark: Dep. f. 27 |
| Miscellanea,
1835-53 Shelfmark: Dep. c. 272 Scope and Content: Comprising
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