Miscellaneous papers of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. Two volumes, as follows: 1. Index to Lord Shelburne’s official correspondence as Secretary of State, 1766-1768. Arranged by country, including America, West India, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Swiss Cantons, Ireland, Dunkirk, ...
Miscellaneous papers of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. Contents as follows: 1. Letter from Edmund Burke [to Viscount Kenmare], 21 February 1782. Copy in an early 19th century hand. The letter was published as A Letter from a Distinguished English Commoner to a Peer in Ireland (1783), and...
A small group of American documents; 1776-1814. Contents as follows: 1. Naval commission to Benjamin Wormell, commander of the schooner Viper, 9 September 1776. Printed, with the signature of John Hancock, President of Congress. 2. Commission to Thomas Coward, appointing him lieutenant of mili...
Correspondents Whately-Young. Includes: 1. Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin; 1829-1852, n.d. 2. William Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; 1852-1857. 3. John Wishaw, M.P.; w.m. 1806-1825. 4. William Wickham, diplomatic agent; 1806-1838. 5. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of ...
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; 1802-1860, n.d. Contents as follows: 1. Letter from John Barlow, regarding a newly invented safety match, 17 October 1855. 2. Letter from Messrs G. Bradshaw & Co., soliciting a subscription to Bradshaw’s railway maps...
Letters to Lansdowne from the Secretary of State for India. Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, was Secretary of State until August 1892, when he was succeeded by John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley. All with a printed index of names and subjects.
Letters to Lansdowne from Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay (1885-90) and later Under-Secretary of State for India (1894-5), with copies of some of Lansdowne’s replies; 1888-1902. Some letters from Reay are also to be found in the English and Indian letter-books.
The Declaration of London (1909) and the seizure of foodstuffs as war contraband. Chiefly printed, mostly government papers, newspaper cuttings and published pamphlets, but also including letters from Lionel Curtis (on Philip Kerr and the ‘Round Table’, 1915), William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborn...