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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34478
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Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 115). 21 Oct.-4 Nov. The Appendix (ff. 83- 115) contains letters to Gordon from Saleh Bey, Governor at Galabat, from the Greek Consul at Adowa in Abyssinia, from Slatin Bey and others, including (f. 99) one from the Mahdi, 22 Oct. 1884, sealed; as well as the Malidi's manifesto (f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 21 Oct 1884-4 Nov 1884
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34479
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Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (ff. 133). 5 Nov.-14 Dec. The concluding words are: " NOW MARK THIS. If Expeditionary Force (and I ask for no more than 200 men) does not come in ten days, the town may fall, and I have done my best for the honour of our country. Good-bye. C. G. Gordon." With a postscript: " You send me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:: 5 Nov 1884-14 Dec 1884
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34483
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Scope & Content:: 1. THREE LETTERS from Queen Victoria to Miss Mary Augusta Gordon, expressing sympathy with her on the death of her brother General Gordon, and thanking her for a copy of his Journals; Osborne, 17 Feb., 16 Mar., Windsor Castle, 11 July, 1885. Holograph ff. 2, 7, 10. 2. Two notes, for ten and fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Apr 1884-11 Jul 1885
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34902-34992
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE and papers of Admiral Horatio Nelson, Baron Nelson (1798), Viscount Nelson and Duke of Bronte (1801)
Scope & Content:: The collection passed on Nelson's death (21 Oct. 1805) to his brother, the Rev. William Nelson (cr. Earl Nelson 20 Nov. 1805); and on the death of the latter (1835) it descended, together with his own correspondence (see 34,992), to his daughter and heir Charlotte, wife of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 92 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34941-34951
Title:: NELSON PAPERS. Vols. XL,.-L. Foreign correspondence and papers, connected chiefly with the two periods of Lord 1798-1800 and 1803-1805, and consisting of letters addressed to him by officers and others connected with the allied army, memorials and petitions to him from French and Italian prisoners or their friends, reports of secret intelligence, intercepted letters, official and private, found on board the ships of the French and Italian Republics, etc.; 1792- 1805. Paper. Folio. Eleven vol...
Scope & Content:: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson: Correspondence and paper.: 1762-1806. France; Sovereigns of, and Transactions in particular reigns. Republic: The Nelson papers relating to the war with Great Britain: 1793-1805. George III of England: The Nelson Papers relating to the war with Fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1792-1805
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34942
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XLI. (II. ff. 292). July-0ct. 1798. Egypt: Papers relating to the French Army in: 1798-1800. includes: ff. 1, 24, 37 France; Sovereigns of, and Transactions in particular reigns. Republic: Report to the Directory of the proceedings of the Army in Egypt: 1798.: Copies. f. 27 France; Sover...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Jul 1798-Oct 1798
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34951
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Scope & Content:: Vol. L. (XI. ff. 13). 1798-1803. includes: ff. 1, 8, 11-13 Turkey, Selim III: Correspondence of the Grand Vizier with Lord Nelson: 1798-1804. f. 5 Turkey, Selim III: Firman to Arab tribes and others, etc.: 1798.: Turkish. f. 5 John Spencer Smith, minister plenipotentiary to Turkey: Note on Tur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1798-1803
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37274-37285
Title:: India and the East.
Scope & Content:: Army; England: Correspondence and papers of Lord Wellesley relating to military affairs in lndia and Spain: 1791-1812.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: [1791-1841]
Extent:: 12 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37274-37318
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS: correspondence and papers, official, political, and private, of Richard Colley Wellesley (b. 1760, cl. 1842), 2nd Earl of Mornington (1781), cr. Baron Wellesley in 1797 and Marquis Wellesley in 1799
Scope & Content:: He was Governor General of Bengal, 1797-1805; Ambassador Extraordinary to the Central Junta of Spain, April-Dec. 1809; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dec. 1809-Feb. 1812; and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821-1828, 1833-1834. Forty-five volumes. The collection is classified as follows.- ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1697-1842]
Extent:: 50 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37282-37284
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. IX..-XI. General correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley relating to Indian affairs; 1797-1807. Three volumes. Lord Wellesley returned to England early in 1806, and many of the letters in 37284 concern the attack made on him in Parliament in connection with his policy respecting Oudh. Among the writers (whose names are included in the Index) are the Marquis Cornwallis, whom Wellesley succeeded in India, Henry Addington, First Lord of the Treasury (1801-1803), Viscount...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General Indian correspondence: 1797-1807. India: Correspondence, etc., of Lord Wellesley, as Governor-General: 1797-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1797-1807
Extent:: 3 items

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