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Image showing diary entry from General from Christmas Eve 1863 in which Robert Hart reflects on his appointment as Inspector General (MS 15/1/4/160).

Photograph of European representatives - Boxer Protocol, 7th September 1901 (MS15/6/4/21)

This depicts the opening episode of Thomas Moore's "Paradise and the Peri", from his Lalla Rookh: the Peri, a Persian Angel fallen from grace, is denied entry into Paradise. Found in: "Paradise and the Peri" (London: Day & Son, 1860),
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