Show MUSEUM OF RECORD OFFICE doomsday book Js is chief of place which attracts many american visitors rhe little museum which forms part of the record office in chancery lane hk 1 a british institution letter better known to americans than to the thousands of londoners Lon doners who daily pass ts doors of cou course c the most treasured ot of tile museums exhibits Is the doomsday book but hardly less interesting are the gunpowder plot papers the wellington papers the log of 0 the victory the last letter which nelson wrote with his right hand and the erst he scribbled with his left hand after losing the right one the treaty of peace strongly reminiscent of the field of the cloth ot of gold between henry VIII and francis I 1 illuminated illuminate books worth a monarchs ransom and royal charters galore all these things however do not seem to interest the londoner Un doner and seldom will one rind find more than a dozen people ui in the museum and ot of esbers these hese ashers the majority will not be brit 1 this museum sal an omeral Is is betler known to Americans than it Is id 0 o englishmen americans are not 0 only n y 1 interested in the doomsday book r royal 0 aal yal charters Ts and exchequer records but iu things pertaining ining to their own country 1 they like to see william penns pig Ig nature appended to a petition to king I 1 james jame 11 II praying that the difference f arence between urd lord baltimore and himself may soon boon be heard beard by the lords of the plantations the d delay ela y being ng vir very Y ruinous th that at of ge george orge lV ashington to a letter to his great and tood good friend king gorge george III II 11 con berning of ratification of a treaty of amit amity y commerce commerce and navigation concluded in november 1794 as well as the signatures of john adams stephen hopkins benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson on OB barlous various documents pall mall gazette iette |