Catalogue description The Price Collection.

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Reference: MPP
Title: The Price Collection.
Description:

Collection of papers, letters and transcripts of letters (where the original has been destroyed), corrected typescript for an unpublished book on Russian Central Asia and the typescript of two unpublished chapters of an autobiography, (subsequently published as 'My Three Revolutions', 1969). The papers chiefly refer to an expedition to Russian Central Asia and Chinese Turkestan undertaken with Douglas Carruthers and J.H. Millar in 1910-11, and his return journey home from Kuldja after separating from Carruthers and Millar.
Date: 1910-1954
Held by: Royal Geographical Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Price, Morgan Philips, 1885-1973, geologist, of Tibberton, Gloucestershire
Physical description: 1 Box, five files.
Access conditions:

open
Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were donated to the RGS by Mrs Tania Rose, daughter of M. P. Price, on 19 July, 1990, together with 5 volumes of photographs which were placed in the RGS Picture Collection..
Subjects:
  • Central Asia
Administrative / biographical background:

FRGS 1909-1973. Obit. Geog. Jnl. Vol. 140. February, 1974, page 178.
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