Letters from Mrs Hamilton Nisbet to the Dowager lady Elgin, 1802-04

Item author: Mrs Hamilton Nisbet
Grant Value: £3,500
Item cost: £7,560
Item date acquired: 2011
Item institution: British Museum
Town/City: London

Letters relating to the embassy of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, at Constantinople in the first decade of the 19th century. The correspondence is between Lord Elgin’s mother, the Dowager Lady Elgin, and his mother-in-law, Mrs Hamilton Nisbet, and includes the period in which Lord and Lady Elgin were in Greece. in 1802.

Item Provenance
Said to have been discovered in a former Elgin family home when it was sold in 2002.