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The Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter's Story

Archivists respect ‘provenance’ and ‘original order’, which means that documents created by the same person, organisation, or institution stay together, and you don’t mix or rearrange them because you think it might make material more ‘useable’. But documents often have their own story to tell. I recently came across one. ....

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Why was a letter about the assassination bid on British viceroy Lytton removed from public archives?

The viceroy had mentioned the attempt on his life in a letter to Sir James Carid. ....

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