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Tomb Raiders and Archival Researchers Tomb Raiders and Archival Researchers
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Dragging Ancestors Out of the Dust: Horace Walpole and the Discovery at Ragley Dragging Ancestors Out of the Dust: Horace Walpole and the Discovery at Ragley
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Another Century, Another Antiquary: John Wilson Croker Another Century, Another Antiquary: John Wilson Croker
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Arrival into the State Paper Office and British Museum Arrival into the State Paper Office and British Museum
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7 The Curious History of the Conway Papers
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Published:October 2014
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Abstract
This chapter tells the story of the Conway Papers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When the manuscripts were discovered by Horace Walpole in the 1750s they had been severaly damaged by rodents, damp, and over-enthusiastic pastry-chefs. Walpole realized how important his find was, but was too busy to do anything with the archive. The collection was given to John Wilson Croker, who sorted through it and donated it to the state. The chapter captures the excitement and confusion that the Conway Papers have inspired in scholars and antiquaries over 250 years; it casts new light on Croker, ‘a man who would go a hundred miles through snow and sleet on top of a coach to search a parish register and prove a man illegitimate or a woman older than she says she is’, and on the formation of collections at the British Library and UK National Archives.
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