HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. LVII, LVIII. Papers mostly relating to the transport service to and from the Crimea, mostly compiled for use in Parliament, 49587 being for use against William Schaw Lindsay, M.P., the ship-owner, on 22 June and 10 July 1855; 1850-1857.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. III, IV. Correspondence with Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.C.B., mostly as Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet; 1843-1857. Large folio and large quarto.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XLVI-XLVIII (ff. i+62, i+66, i+63). Three memorandum books of Lord Halifax relating to the appointments of naval officers, and containing notes of interviews, careers, etc.; 1855-1857. Leaves have been cut out from Add. MS. 49576 between ff. 8 and 9. Quarto. Red calf bindings, with brass clasps.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XIV, XV. Letters of his brother-in-law, Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick William Grey, G.C.B., mostly as Fourth in Command in the Mediterranean 1855-1856 and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope and on the West Coast of Africa 1857-1859; 1855-1859. Preceded (49544, f. 1) by a letter to Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Bart., Wood's predecessor as First Lord of the Admiralty, 21 Feb. 1855. Folio and large quarto.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLI (ff. 67). Memorandum Book of Lord Halifax as Secretary of the Admiralty, mostly relating to the Royal Naval Dockyards and shipbuilding; 1835. Followed (ff. 62-67) by an index. Black morocco binding. Octavo.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LI (ff. i+26). Memorandum by Lord Halifax on a plan to retire Commanders; 1858. Preceded (ff. 1-6) by a draft of the plan and followed (ff. 13-26) by related memoranda, 1857, and lists of retired Commanders and Captains, n.d. Folio.
HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LX (ff. 6). Steam and other vessels forming the fleet reviewed by Queen Victoria at Spithead, 23 Apr. 1856. Followed (f. 6) by a statistical abstract. Arranged by classes. Contains constructional statistics, commanders' names, complements and occasional comments. Presumably ...