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1. Add MS 37842-37935

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Title:
WINDHAM PAPERS: official and private correspondence and papers of William Windham, Secretary at War. (with a seat in the Cabinet) 1794-1801, Secretary of State for War 1806-1807 (d. 4 June, 1810). Windham was for a few weeks Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1783. He was M.P. for Norwich 1784-1802, St. Mawes 1802-1806, New Romney 1806 (his election for Norfolk in the same month was declared void), and Higham Ferrers 1807-1810. In 1785 he took part with James Sadler in on...
Scope & Content:
William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Windham Papers, political and private correspondence and papers. Army; England: Correspondence and papers of W. Windham as Secretary at War, etc.: 1782-1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1660-1845]
Extent:
97 items

2. Add MS 37935 A-D

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Title:
37935. WINDHAM PAPERS. Vol. XCIV.
Scope & Content:
Brittany: Charts of the coast: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1760-1806]
Extent:
4 items

3. Add MS 37903-37904

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1792-1810
Extent:
2 items

4. Add MS 37846-37847

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WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. V., VI. (ff. 219, 273). Correspondence of W. Windham with William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1791-1801, First Lord of the Treasury 1806-1807); 1793-1807. Followed (37847, f. 204) by correspondence with his brother, Thomas Grenville (First Lord of the Admiralty 1806-1807), 1793-1809; and (ib. f. 240) with Charles Grey, afterwards Viscount Howick and 2nd Earl Grey (First Lord of the Admiralty 1806, Foreign Secretary 1806-1807...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1793-1809
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 37850-37851

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WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. IX., X. (ff. 260, 268). Correspondence of W. Windham with Emperor John Alexander Woodford, Inspector General of Foreign Forces in British Pay; 1794-1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1794-1810
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 37932-37933

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Title:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1784-1794
Extent:
2 items

7. Add MS 37873-37890

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Title:
WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XXXII.-XLIX. General correspondence, political and military, of W. Windham; 1782-1810. Included are a few minutes sent in circulation to the Cabinet. Eighteen volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1782-1810
Extent:
18 items

8. Add MS 37914-37916

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Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1783-1810
Extent:
3 items

9. Add MS 37848-37849

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Title:
WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. VII., VIII. (ff. 337, 375). Correspondence of W. Windham with Sir John Coxe Hippisley, lst Bart. (1796), chiefly concerning the relations of Great Britain and the Papacy; 1781-1810. The enclosures are very numerous, and include (37848, f. 297) a copy of a letter of Edmund Burke to Hippisley, 3 Oct. 1793.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1781-1810
Extent:
2 items

10. Add MS 37925

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Scope & Content:
WlNDHAM PAPERS. Vol. LXXXIV. (ff. 21). Original pencil notes by W. Windham of a balloon ascent [5 May, 1785, see Diary, p. 52] with James Sadler, ascending from Moulsey Hurst, co. Surrey, descending near Rochester, with particulars, in columns, of the time (5.58 a.m.-1.50 p.m.), and of the heigh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1785
Extent:
1 item