Catalogue description Henry Petrie: Papers

These consist of the official and private correspondence and official accounts of Henry Petrie, Keeper of the Records at the Tower (1819 to 1840), with some of the official correspondence and accounts of Samuel Lysons, his predecessor; notes, transcripts and materials collected by or under him for a publication on British history; and some naval papers of James Petrie (1788 to 1799).

Henry Petrie, 1768-1842

in June 1919

Clara L Sharpe, 1919-1919 in June 1919

Some of these documents were used in the preparation of the Monumenta Historica Britannica, or Materials for the history of Britain from the earliest period, volume 1 (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1848).