Item AM-GAT/133/List6/Part1/Docs5092-5110 - From Mesrop Nshanyan, future patriarch of Jerusalem, to Arshak Chopanyan

1 file; 18 letters, in Armenian, handwritten and typed, 41 pages

Nshanyan on literary works, copying several poems/songs from the old manuscripts of Jerusalem, future catholicos's elections, the hardships of Etchmiadzin's manuscript library, one of Frik's poems, one of Petros Duryan's publications, on getting ready Grigor Daranaghtsi's "Jamanakagrutyun" (Chronology) for publication, on undertaking actions to reproduce the scaphandre found in Alexander's temple, Palestinian's defeat in the Turkish front, the participation of Armenian soldiers in allied armies, the situation of the Armenian refugees, a former student of Armash Tachat Karapetyan's education in Paris, on Yeghishe Duryan and the need for his election as a patriarch of Jerusalem, the process of the Gargour case, on leaving for Etchmiadzin for his ordination, church affairs, the new patriarchal election, the possibility of Torgom Gushakyan's patriacy, his meetings with the governor of Jerusalem, the new building to be built in Jerusalem, Duryan series.

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