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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS OGDEN/75
TitleHotel du Monte Moro Register
Date1856-1892
DescriptionManuscript register of guests at the Hotel du Monte Moro, Saas, Switzerland, 1856-1892, containing signatures of early alpinists.
Extent2 volumes
AdminHistoryThe resort villages of Saas-Almagel, Saas-Fee and Saas-Grund lie in the Saastal valley of the river Saaservisp in Valais canton, southern Switzerland. The Monte Moro is a pass on the Italian border.
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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