King's College London Council minutes, 1829-1836 (volume)

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Title:: King's College London Council minutes, 1829-1836

Collection:: KA/C: COUNCIL- King's College London committee records

Archive reference:: KA/C/M2

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/ka-c

Level of description:: Collection

Date of material:: August 1829-October 1836

Creator:: King's College London Council; 1829- (1829)

Source collection title:: KA/C - COUNCIL: King's College London committee records

Description (scope):: King's College London Council minutes and agenda books, 1829-1836. Signed manuscript minute books with indexes.

Copyright:: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.; King's College London Archives

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Title:: King's College London Council minutes, 13 February 1835 - 11 December 1835

Archive reference:: KA/C/M2

Date of material:: 1835

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Constantinople August 31st 1858 Sir, Being called upon by you to give you an account of the few acquirements I may have got, tho' I find it extremely difficult to do so in my own case, I beg leave to state what studies I have unto now pursued, in compliance with your requests. Associating very seldom in boyhood with juveniles of my own age, as the position of my father Dr- Leitner either as a medical practitioner or as a missionary did not allow him always to reside among Europeans, with whose children he might have wished me to associate; having on the other hand, since earliest childhood, a strongly expressed desire for litterature [sic], I was naturally lead [sic] to take up study as a work & as a recreation. As a leading feature of my character at that time I consider to be the taste I had for the historical branch of litterature [sic]. At that time I fondly associated myself with the idea of becoming once a clergyman. The study of languages afterwards had a peculiar charm for me, I took it up & found myself having an unmisteakable [sic] talent for linguistic pursuits. My father getting aware of my inclination furnished me with good books, brought me in contact with people of different nationalities, & gave me good professors in [subscript address at bottom of page: The Revd. C Gribble, British Chaplain to Pera]

fullscreen: Letters, 1858, to the Secretary of King’s College London from Gottlieb Leitner (file)

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