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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40037-40041
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XX-XXIV. Private letter-books of Adm. Sir C. Napier, containing copies of letters received and despatched by him (including letters to newspapers), 1827-1864. Five vols. Other vols. of this series, containing letters from July 1853 to Dec. 1856, are in the P.R.O. (Napier Papers, Vols. XII-XIV), and another vol., " St. Vincent," No. 1, which should follow Add. MS. 40039 (Vol. XXII), is apparently missing. A holograph letterbook (Add. MS. 40053), 1813-1829, n.d., which con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1827-1864
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40042-40045
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XXV-XXVIII. "Miscellaneous letters," comprising chiefly original official letters to Adm. Sir. C. Napier from other naval officers. The letters are arranged as originally bound-in rough chronological order. An index of writers is prefixed to each volume. Four volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1847-1849]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40124-40126
Title:: Vols. II-IV (ff. 376, 272, 206). General correspondence in order of date, 1849-1866; 1867-1890; 1891-1905, and undated. Among the more frequent writers may be mentioned: [Johann] Gottfried Kinkel, Ferdinand Freiligrath, [Jean Joseph Charles] Louis Blane, [Alexandre Auguste] Ledru-Rollin, Aurelio and Giorgina Saffi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Caroline Stansfeld and her husband James Stansfeld (G.C.B. 1895), Algernon Charles Swinburne, Heinrich Schliemann.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1849-1905
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40177-40178
Title:: Vols. I, II (ff. 160, 134). Official correspondence as Lord Lieutenant, chiefly with the Secretary of State, Thomas Townshend, afterwards l st Viscount Sydney, and his successor Lord North; 15 Sept. 1782-3 June 1783, 18 Sept. 1782-3 June 1783. The contents of the second volume refer almost exclusively to military matters. To the end of the first volume (ff. 125-160) has been added from another book the more secret correspondence, out-letters and in-letters arranged separately, 29 Aug. 1782- ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1782-1783
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40181-40298
Title:: FIRST SERIES (1812-1818).
Scope & Content:: Ireland: Correspondence, etc., of Sir R. Peel rel. to: 1812-1848.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: [1807-1821]
Extent:: 118 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40771-40776
Title:: VERNON PAPERS. Vols. I-VI. Correspondence of James Vernon (d. 1727), Secretary of State (1697-1702), and previously Private Secretary to Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury (1688 and 1694), and Secretary to the Lords Justices (1694-1697). His letters to the Duke of Shrewsbury were published by G. P. R. James, Letters illustrative of the Reign of William III, 3 vols., 1841. Among his other correspondents the chief are:-the King, William Blathwayt, Secretary-at-War, Matthew Prior, Secretary of ...
Scope & Content:: Vernon family: Papers and deeds of: 1688-1754. Secretaries of State: Correspondence of J. Vernon as Sec. of State: 1697-1702.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1688-1754
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40862-40877
Title:: RIPON PAPERs. Vols. I-XVI. Correspondence of the Hon. Frederick John Robinson (b. 1782, Id. 1859), created Viscount Goderich 28 Apr. 1827, and Earl of Ripon 13 Apr. 1833. The bulk of the collection relates to the affairs of India during the critical period (May 1843-June 1846) when Ripon was President of the Board of Control in Peel's second administration. His chief correspondents are Lord Ellenborough and Lord Hardinge, successive Governors-General of India, and, at home, Sir Robert Peel a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: May 1843-Jun 1846
Extent:: 16 items

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