Color: Black and White Size: 8w X 10h Type of Image: Document; Medium: Photograph
Type:
Paper
Document
Will
Date:
c.1826
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Negative number 89-12894 is the image without a border. Negative number 96-1626 is with a border. See 72-3960-A (pages 1 and 3) and 82-12239 (pages 2 and 4) for the handwritten will acquired by the Smithsonian from Henry de la Batut.
To view a digital facsimile of the Court's version of the final three-page will of James Smithson that was submitted to the Chancery Court after his death in 1829, visit The National Archives of Great Britain web site at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/image/Index/D168292?index=0&page=0.
Summary:
Photograph of a constructed facsimile of the double-sided, handwritten draft of James Smithson's will. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1878 from George Henry de la Batut of France.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000