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Vienna has some seventy museums, so you may trudge to taste. I even saw, and enjoyed, a postage stamp museum, opposite the Austrian Travel Bureau on Friedrichstrasse, but this may have been of a temporary nature. In the Archives Office, I have done the most interesting browsing I have ever enjoyed, except, possibly, in London's Record Office, If you want to see the original Golden Bull, the original manuscript of the agmatic Sanction and a collection of Napoleon's letters to Marie Louise d hers, about Napoleon, to "Lieber Papa," this is your chance.In preparing the 12-volume History of England (1856-1870) he examined tens of thousands }f documents in the English Record Office and in :he archives at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Si-nancas, Spain. No such work from original iources had previously appeared, and it went hrough many editions. Regarding the Reforma-ion as the greatest event in English history, he nterpreted the Statute Book in the light of con-emporary records, and was thus compelled to a lualified defense of Henry VIII and to reluctant tcknowledgment that Elizabeth I's wisdom was hat of her ministers, Burghley in particular.
RED LINE MAP, a map of considerable importance in the history of the northeastern boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain. It was a copy of John Mitchell's map of 1755, on which Benjamin Franklin had marked the northeastern boundary of the United States with a "Strong Red Line," according to his letter accompanying it to the Comte de Ver-gennes (Dec. 6, 1782). This map has never been seen since; but later, during the negotiations preliminary to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, the historian Jared Sparks connected it with a French map of 1746, which he found in the archives of the French foreign office, and on which a red boundary line had been drawn favoring the British claim. Together with another Mitchell map which also supported the British claim, this French map was used to gain the consent of Maine to the final settlement of the treaty. In the early 1930's, a copy of Franklin's original red line map was discovered in the Spanish archives in Madrid. Also prepared on a Mitchell map, it substantiated the American claim, and some historians have suggested that if this evidence had been available in 1842, the outcome of the Webster-Ashburton negotiations might have been more favorable to the United States. However, at the time of its signing, the treaty was satisfactory to both parties. RED LION, borough, Pennsylvania, in York County, eight miles southeast of York, on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad. It is situated at an altitude of 890 feet in a farming region which it serves as a trading center. Manufactures include furniture and cigars. The borough was incorporated in 1880 and has a mayor-council form of government. The name derives from a colonial tavern, about which a settlement grew up, where stagecoaches stopped to change horses and afford passengers a rest. Pop. (1960) 5,594.
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