WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXII., LXIII. (ff. 293, 194). Military Memoranda, consisting chiefly of notes of conversations of Windham with French émigrés officers and others, extracts from dispatches, minutes of intelligence from abroad, motions to be brought before Parliament, estimates of the numbers of the Forces and the pay of the troops, and other papers relating to the defence of the country, etc.; 1792-1810. Included are:-(a) "Notes of a conversation with M. Georges" [Cadoudal], 13 Apr. 179...
WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXIII.-LXXV. (ff. 270, 323, 284). Private correspondence of W. Windham, including many drafts of his replies; 1783-1810. Among the correspondents are Dr. Charles Burney, the musician, and Dr. Charles Burney, his son, Dr. Samuel Parr, the Comtesse de Flahault, Sarah Siddons, Dr. William Coxe, Lady Anne Barnard, Sir William Scott, Dr. Charles Hutton, John Britton, Sir William Gell, William Hazlitt, John Gifford, etc. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Three...
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.
WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXX.-LXXXIII. (ff. 23, 41, 47, 91). Diaries of W. Windham; 1782-1802. Entirely distinct from the Diary of the Bight Hon. William Windham, 1784- 1810, edited by Mrs. Baring, 1866. Four volumes. Quarto (Vol. I.) and small folio. Vol. 1. Diary; 13 July-19 Dec. 1783. Followed (ff. 18-23) by extracts, partly in Windham's band and partly from the printed diary, 3 Oct. 1782, 4 Jan. 1785, 24 July, 5 Dec. 1790, 3 Oct. 1795-3 Mar. 1796 (cf. same dates in Vol. II.) Vols. II.-IV. ...
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.
WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XCI., XCII. (ff. 297, 283). Translation by W. Windham of Jacques Auguste de Thou's Historiarum sui temporis libri cxxv (ed. 1609), to the middle of bk. VI., covering 1543-1550. Begun in 1784, and left incomplete in 1794. Two volumes.