The Joseph and Ann Cox Brown Collection

JAB/1/1 - Ms. diary of a “journey from London to Naples by the Jura Mountains & the Simplon. 1818 (Joseph Brown, 1802-1874 – AEB’s father)" / [27pp., softbound, stitched, stored in medium-sized green annotated envelope].

JAB/1/2 - Ms. diary of a “journey from London to Constantinople by the rivers Rhine and Danube. Septr 1836”. Author not stated / [1 bound vol. with marbled boards].

JAB/1/3 - Ms. re visit to the harem of Rifat Pasha. May 11th 1847. Author not stated / [1 leaf, folded].

JAB/2/1 - Ms. documents - Annotated envelope, & photocopy of letter from Malcolm Deas to Society Director John Hemming, dated 26th February 1986, re: artwork of Colombia (transferred to 1. Map Room, then 2. Picture Library; see X0842) / [1 empty envelope, c.20x15cm; 2 photocopied A4 leaves].

JAB/2/2 - Ms. diary of a short tour in Turkey by Ann Cox Brown, in company with Mr & Mrs Charles Hanson (?her employers), Bosphorus, Bursa, Gimlek, Istanbul, 13-23 May 1842 / (see also JAB/2/4) / [39pp., softbound, loosely stitched].

JAB/2/3 - Ms. “Notes on some of the characteristics of Constantinople”. Author not stated. Dated at Lee Road, Blackheath, Dec. 1843 / [2 leaves, folio].

JAB/2/4 - Two photographs of i. Mr Charles Hanson & ii. Mrs Charles Hanson, taken by Abdullah Freres, Constantinople, n.d., c.10x6cm & 9x6cm / And: Un-named studio portrait of a younger woman (?Ann Cox Brown), n.d., c.19x15cm / [3 card-mounted sepia photographic prints].

JAB/2/5 - Ms. notes on the lives of Joseph and Ann Cox Brown by Miss Hunter / (Copy also in the Map Room. Miss Hunter gave the picture collection and the JAB/2/1-5 papers to the Society in May 1984) / [9 leaves of various sizes].

JAB/2/6 - Ts. extracts re Charles Hanson, taken from the Levant Herald of April 1874 / (Sent by Elizabeth Anderson, 14 October 1985) / [4 fs. leaves, stapled].

JAB/2/7 - Ms., single leaf, headed ‘2’ [N.B.: no page ‘1’], describing areas of (now) Istanbul overlooking the Bosphorus from both European and Asian banks. Includes mention of Roumeli Hissar (Castle), Robert College and Bebek on the European side and, on the Asian side, the widowed Sultana’s property and gardens, and the waterside house of the Hansons [as in JAB/2/2 and JAB/2/4]. Author not stated. n.d. / [Small single leaf].

<span class="wrapper"><p>See also: X0842, an X-packet of 57 watercolours, mainly of Colombia, four of Constantinople, by Joseph Brown and others [transferred first to Map Room collection, then to Picture Library collection].</p></span>

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• <persname>Brown, Joseph, 1802-1874</persname>
• <persname>Brown, Ann Cox, 1807-1893</persname>

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JAB/2/1-5 presented by Miss F.E. Hunter, the grand-daughter of Joseph Brown, Jr, (1802-1874).

Ann Cox Brown lived in Turkey from 1841-7 with the Hanson family. Her father, Joseph Brown, was born in London and worked as a merchant and banker in the Mediterranean and South America. He set up a gold mining company in Melbourne in 1852, thence moved to Peru and retired to England in 1867. A talented painter.