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Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 201
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Scope & Content:: (ff. 34). Twelve letters from B. Franklin to Dr. Cooper; London, 24 Feb. 1769-25 Feb. 1774. Ten holograph and two (ff. 27, 29) signed. Printed with two exceptions (30 Dec. 1770, 4 June, 1773, ff. 18, 26) in his Works, ed. J. Sparks, 1882, vols. vii, viii. With enclosures, viz.: (a) Letter from -...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 201-204
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, D.D., of Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Pownall, late Governor of Massachusetts, on the relations between England and the American Colonies; 1769-1775. Four volumes, bound in finely tooled red morocco, with marbled end-papers. Contents:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 202
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 76). Twenty-seven letters from T. Pownall to Dr. Cooper; 30 Jan. 1769-2 Apr. 1774. Holograph or signed. Two (ff. 50, 54 and 60, 62) are in duplicate. Printed at the end of F. Griffin's Junius Discovered, Boston, 1854, P. 193. Included also are: (a) Speech of T. Pownall, as M.P. for Tregony,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 203
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 45). Drafts of eleven letters from Dr. Cooper to B. Franklin, 3 Aug. 1769-1 Apr. 1775, and (f. 21) of thirteen to T. Pownall, 11 May, 1769-9 Sept. 1774. The letters to Franklin, with four exceptions (ff. 9, 14, 18, 20), are printed in his Work's, 1882, vol. vii, pp. 448, 488, 490, 499, 529,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 204
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. 62). Fair copy of the letters in nos. 201 except that dated 30 Dec. 1770, f. 18) and 202, together with hose to Franklin in no. 203. Preceded (f. 2) by an account by [Benjamin Thompson [afterwards Count Rumford], on the occasion of his presentation of the correspondence to George III, circ....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 205
Title:
Scope & Content:: OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS of reports on the state of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies; 1721-1766. 1. ' Representation of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations' made to the King, 8 Sept- 1721, viz.: (a) On Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 206
Title:
Scope & Content:: OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS of reports made by the Governors of the several North American Colonies in obedience to instructions from the Lords of Trade, 1 Aug. 1766 (f. 2), and from [William Petty, Earl of] Shelburne, Secretary of State, 11 Dec. 1766-13 Jan. 1767 (ff. 35, III), giving (a) an 'Account ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 207
Title:
Scope & Content:: OFFICIAL DUPLICATE REPORTS and papers relating to the Laws and Government of the Province of Quebec, drawn up, by Order in Council dat. 28 Aug. 1767, under the superintendence of Guy Carleton [Baron Dorchester, [1786], Governor of Quebec. Preceded by his letter to [Wills Hill,] Earl of Hillsboro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 208-209
Title:: 'A GENERAL DESCRIPTION of the Province of Nova Scotia, and a Report of the present state of the Defences ...by Lieut.-Col. [Robert] Morse, Chief Engineer in America', drawn up by direction of Gen. Sir Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of H.M. Forces in N. America; 1783-1784. Two volumes. Vol. ii contains the coloured plans referred to in vol. i, preceded (f. 1) by the Admiralty Chart of 'the Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence, the Islands of Newfoundland, C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1784
Extent:: 2 items

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