NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XXIV, XXV. Correspondence, partly imperfect, with his sister, Emily Louisa Augusta, wife of Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Bart; 1801-1853. Included also are two letters of Sir Henry, 1812, 1853 (49109, f. 9; 49110, f. 161), a letter of Elizabeth, wife of Frances James Kelly, afterwards wife of Sir Charles Napier, 26 Feb. 1817 (49109, f. 50), and two letters of Susan Sarah, elder daughter of Sir Charles Napier and wife of Captain William Montagu Scott McMurdo, to Lady Bun...
NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XLVIII, XLIX. Two notebooks containing annotated copies by Napier of correspondence with Samuel Laing of Orkney relating to an attempt by Laing to obtain money from him; 1827-1830. The letters, which include letters of Laing to Napier's first wife, Elizabeth, and one from him to Capt. Lewis Robertson, R.A., are preceded (49133, ff. 1-11) by an introductory note by Napier entitled 'An account of the nefarious attempt made by Samuel Laing of Orkney to swindle me out of a l...
NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. I, II. Official correspondence and papers of George Napier as Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich; 1777-Apr. 1783, n.d. Apparently used, together with 49093-49102, for his monograph, 'The Composition of Gunpowder', communicated to the Royal Irish Academy in 1788 and published in the same year in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of Artillery, ii, 1788, pp. 97-118. Preceded (49086, ff. 1-17) by other letters and papers, mostly on ordnance, gunpowder, etc...
NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 40). Notebook containing a classified 'List of Papers [dated 1795-1801] Official and Private' (f. 2), in the hand of George Napier, circa 1801, with additions, chronologically arranged, 7 Jan. 1802-24 Dec. 1803. Very many of the letters and papers listed are not in th...
NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. iii+46). 'Journal [of George Napier] begun at Musselburgh March 15 [and ending on 29 Aug.] 1779', noted by Napier on the cover (f. i) as being 'A No 1'. The journal proper is preceded (f. 1b) by rules for computing latitude north of the Equator and (f. 2) by lists of...
NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XLVII (ff. i+14). List of the contents of Add MS 49120-49125, also of letter books numbered 2, 3 and 6, now missing from the collection.