Select political correspondence. 37295-37297. WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XXII.-XXIV. Select political correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley; 1799-1835. Three volumes. The correspondence refers particularly to (1) the reconstruction of the cabinet on the death of Fox in Sept. 1806, and the overtures made by Lord Grenville to induce Canning to join his Ministry; (2) the period of Lord Wellesley's tenure of the Foreign Secretaryship in Spencer Perceval's ministry, Dec. 1809- Feb. 1812, when the...
Ireland. 37298-37307. WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XXV.-XXXIV. Official correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Jan. 1822-March, 1828, and again, Sept. 1833-Dec. 1834. During the administration of Lord Liverpool, which ended in 1827, the bulk of the correspondence was partly with him, but more particularly with Robert Peel, Home Secretary, and Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, at the Irish Office in London. In April-Aug. 1827, when Canning ...
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Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: Political correspondence when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland: 1824-1828, 1833-1835.
Family correspondence. 37315, 37316. WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XLII., XLIII. Family and personal correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley; 1800-1842. Two volumes. Paper. Folio.
DRYDEN COLLECTION. Vols. II.-IV. (ff. 56, 93, 133, folio). Drawings and plans in water-colour of Broughs, etc., in Orkney and Shetland and antiquities found in them. Arranged under islands and names. The names of the Broughs, etc., are given in the Index. At f. 50 of 37333 is a letter from William G. T. Watt, Keirfield House, by Stromness, 6 Dec. 1878.
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Maps and Plans: Drawings and plans by Sir H.E.L. Dryden of broughs Picts' houses, stone circles, etc., in Scotland: late 19th cent.
DRYDEN COLLECTION. Vols. VI., VII. (ff. 77, 66, folio). Plans and measurements, with a few water-colour drawings, of Broughs, etc., in Scotland, other than Orkney and Shetland, arranged under counties, parishes and names, in two series according to size. The names of the Broughs, etc., are given in the Index.
WHITELOCKE'S ANNALS. Vols. I., II. (ff. 153, 156). Notes on English history, viz., "Booke 1. Of the time before the invasion of the Romans," and "Booke 2. Of the time from the invasion of the Romans to that of the Saxons." With a preface addressed to his children, and a table of chapters appended to each volume.