This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Albert Pike letter'.


 
 
 
 
Chris Moffett 
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/chris_moffett 
 
 
11 January 2013 
 
Dear Mr Moffett, 
 
Thank you for your request for information from the British Museum. Your request has been 
dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (2000).  
 
Your request, received on 9 January 2013, was: 
 
Could you please confirm if the British Museum holds in it's [sic.] 
     
possession/archives a letter from General Albert Pike to Italian 
     
politician Giuseppe Mazzini dated 15th August 1871 and if so, has 
      
it ever been on display at the British Museum? 
 
This information is not held by the British Museum. The Museum does not hold manuscripts of 
the type described in your request. These are held by the British Library which was formerly 
part of the British Museum and has been a separate entity since 1972. I suggest therefore that 
you address your request to the British Library. 
 
This concludes the response to your request. I hope this information is helpful. If you are 
dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to make a complaint about how 
your request has been handled you should write to me in the first instance. Your complaint will 
be investigated by the Museum’s Director of Administration, or other senior member of staff 
not involved in the handling of your original request, and you will receive a response within 20 
working days of receipt.  
  
If, having exhausted the internal review process, you are not content that your request has 
been dealt with correctly, you have a further right of appeal to the Information Commissioner. 
To make such an application, please write to: 
  
FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution 
Information Commissioner's Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire SK9 5AF  
  
or complete the complaint form at: https://forms.ico.gov.uk/freedom-of-information-or-eir-
complaint.aspx 
 
Yours sincerely, 
 
 
Christopher Denvir  
Information Manager 
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