| Title |
Beginnings of historical writing |
| Reference |
MS Butterfield 369 |
| Covering Dates |
1950–1960 (Circa) |
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| Further information |
Further details in a typescript handlist available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. |
| Manuscripts/MS Butterfield 369 contains: |
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1
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Paper beginning `In the case of both Mesopotamia and Egypt, the bulk of the history with which we have to deal is what we must call "official history"....'. Draft in Butterfield's hand.
10pp. |
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2
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Paper beginning `In some regions of the world - and notably in China and the lands to the east of the Mediterranean Sea - men seem to acquire at an early stage a consciousness of the past...'. Draft in Butterfield's hand.
12pp. |
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3
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Paper beginning `To see correspondences and correlations between events of any kind, and to judge from these how things work in the world, is a fundamental aspect of life itself and of mental activity as such....'. Incomplete drafts in Butterfield's hand, possibly of more than one paper.
16pp. |
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