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1. Add MS 37855-37872

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WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XIV.-XXXI. Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists; 1792-1810. The letters are infrequent till 1794, when (11 July) Windham became Secretary at War. He had for some time been regarded as the inheritor of Burke's antirevolutionary policy, and as the spokesman of that policy in Parliament. The management of the negotiations with the émigrés was now put into his hands, and the correspondence (most full in 1795, the year of the Quiberon Bay Expedition) throws muc...
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William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Correspondence with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Vendée La, France: Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Political Tracts: Tracts on the relations between England and France, chiefly relating to Royalist émigrés: 1792-1810.: F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1792-1810
Extent:
18 items

2. Add MS 37917-37919

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WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXVI.-LXXVIII. (ff. 350, 266, 266). Accompts of the Windham estates in Norfolk (Felbrigg, etc.), Suffolk (Sudbury, etc.), and Essex, with household bills, inventories, and other family papers, including letters from lawyers, bankers, agents, etc. Three volumes.
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William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Rentals, etc., of his estates in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and other legal and family papers: 1754-1810. Felbrigg, Norfolk: Papers relating to the estate of W. Windham: 1775-1809.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1754-1810]
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 37927-37931

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Add MS 37927-37931
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WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXXVI.-XC. Drafts of speeches by W. Windham, delivered, or intended for delivery, in Parliament. A few speeches are comparatively complete, but the majority are represented by fragmentary passages, notes of topics and quotations, etc. A few proof sheets of reports of speeches also occur. A selection of Windham's speeches was published in 1812, with an account of his life by Thomas Amyot, his secretary; these were taken partly from speeches published in pamphlet form, p...
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William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Drafts of speeches: 1784-1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1784-1810]
Extent:
5 items

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