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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31134-31140
Title:: POLITICAL and general correspondence of Lord Raby, afterwards Earl of Strafford, chiefly during his embassies in Prussia and Holland; 1697-1739. Seven Volumes. Paper. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and German
Date Range:: 17 Dec 1697-30 Mar 1739
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32686-32992
Title:: OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE of Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle; 1697-1768. Thoms Pelham, son of Thomas, lst Lord Pelham, assumed the name of Holles in 1711, succeeded as 2nd Baron Pelham in 1712, was created Viscount Pelham and Earl of Clare in 1714, and Duke of Newcastle in 1715. He was Lord Chamberlain, 13 Apr. 1717- 2 Apr. 1724; Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 6 Apr. 1724-10 Feb. 1746; Secretary of State for the Northern Department, 14 Feb. 1746-23 Mar. 1754; First Lor...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1715; formerly Pelham; Secretary of State: Official correspondence: 1697-1768. Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1715; formerly Pelham; Secretary of State: Correspondence and papers of him and his family: 1602-1814. England General Chronicles and H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1697-1768
Extent:: 308 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34329-34335
Title:: STATE-PAPERS, letters, etc., relating to negotiations with Portugal and Spain; l572-1720. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio. The collection was made by Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, and (1690) Secretary of State for Ireland. The letters comprise the correspondence of Southwell, when Envoy to Portugal (1665-1669), with the Secretaries of State and others, and, on his return, with Francis Parry, English Resident at Lisbon (1671-1680), and Paul Methuen, Envoy Extraordinary to Lisb...
Scope & Content:: Kingdom of Spain: Negotiations in, by Sir R. Southwell, etc.: 1574-1720. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the Privy Council: State correspondence: 1665-1720. Kingdom of Portugal: Negotiations of Sir R. Southwell and others in: 1574-1720. England General Chronicles and History: Negotiations in S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1572-1720
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34339-34340
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS of state-papers and correspondence relating to transactions between England and the Netherlands ; 1668-1701. Some of the papers are in the handwriting of Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk to the Privy Council, etc.; others appear by their endorsements to have 'been written either for his use or for that of William Blathwayt, Secretary-at-War, etc. Two volumes Paper. Folio. The contents are:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:: 1668-1701
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34773-34778
Title:: SOUTHWELL PAPERS relating to Irish affairs, 1686-1741 being a portion of the collection of Sir Robert Southwell, who was Secretary of State for Ireland from 1690 to 1702, of his son Edward, who succeeded him, and of his grandson Edward, who was appointed to the same office (jointly with his father) in 1720 (cf. 34,775, f. 85). Six volumes. Paper. Folio and (Vol. VI.) Quarto. For other volumes of the Southwell Collection see Add. 21,122-21,138, 34,329-34,335. All these six volumes seem to hav...
Scope & Content:: Ireland: Southwell Papers relating to affairs of: 1686-1741.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:: 1686-1741
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37348-37352
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols. I.-V. Correspondence of Charles Whitworth, as Resident at Ratisbon during the deliberations of the Diet upon the proposal of the Emperor Leopold to declare war with France, and later; 28 Feb. (O.S.), 1702-22 Nov. (N.S.), 1704. With numerous papers, MS. and printed. War was finally declared 6 Oct. 1702, with the consent of the various states represented at the Diet, with the exception of the Elector of Bavaria, who, espousing the cause of France, seized Ulm and Memming...
Scope & Content:: Leopold I; Emperor of Germany: Correspondence of C.Whitworth as Resident at Ratisbon: 1702-1704.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1702-1704
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37354-37360
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols.VII.-XIII. Correspondence of C. Whitworth, as Envoy Extraordinary to Russia, with successive Secretaries of State, viz. Robert Harley [Earl of Oxford 1711], [Charles Spencer] Earl of Sunderland, Henry Boyle [Baron Carlton 1714], [James Douglas] Duke of Queensberry, and Henry St. John [Viscount Bolingbroke 1712], and with the Duke of Marlborough at the seat of war and other prominent persons in England and at foreign courts; 1704-1712. Besides the higher affairs of stat...
Scope & Content:: Peter the Great; Emperor of Russia: Correspondence, etc., of C. Whitworth, British Envoy, and his secretary L. C. Weisbrod: 1704-1712.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1704-1712
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37364-37372
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols. XVII.-XXV. Correspondence of C. Whitworth, as Envoy Extraordinary, etc., at the Hague during the absence of Gen. William Cadogan, Ambassador Extraordinary; 11 Mar. 1716/7-10 May (N.S.), 1719. He was sent to the Hague (without being recalled from Berlin) owing to the discovery of Swedish designs in aid of the Pretender's invasion of Scotland. During his stay Lord Cadogan twice returned to his post (in Sept. 1717, and in May, 1718-Jan. 1719), and the two then acted join...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands, United Provinces: Correspondence and papers of C. Whitworth, Envoy at the Hague: 1717-1719.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1717-1719
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37986-37987
Title:: BLATHWAYT CORRESPONENCE. Vols. VIII., IX. (ff. 329, 326). Letters of Edmund Poley, Envoy at Berlin, Frankfort, Ratisbon, etc., to the same; 8 Feb. 1681, O.S.- 10 May 1683, O.S. Two volumes. Prefixed to Vol. I. (ff. 1-5) are abstracts of the treaties between England and the States General, 1678, and between the Empire and France, 1679. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the proceedings of the conference at Frankfort.
Scope & Content:: Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway; Secretary of State 1623: Correspondence, as Secretary of State: 1680-1683.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1681-1683
Extent:: 2 items

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