Export of Journals About Iraq Prohibited
From Times Wire Reports
Britain has temporarily banned the export of a collection of 19th century journals written by Claudius James Rich, an academic who represented the East India Co. in Baghdad between 1808 and 1821. The government hopes someone will come forward before mid-June to buy the journals, valued at $97,000, and keep them in British hands.
They describe Rich’s trips from Baghdad to Vienna in 1813 and from Geneva to Baghdad in 1815, and are related to a larger collection of Rich’s writings in the British Museum in London.
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