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European writers in the Public Record Office.

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 3/1/1998  |  Author: Harvey, A.D.

Documents associated with various Europeans authors can be found alongside those of British writers at the Public Record Office at Kew, England. These include a letter written by Voltaire to King George I in 1725, Scotland Yard reports about Victor Hugo, and remarks on the works or on the person of Russian writers Nikolai Ogarev and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and of French foreign ministry official and poet Alexis Leger. Many European writers appeared in British government files because there ...

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