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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40878-40880
Title:: RIPON PAPERS. Vols. XVII-XIX. Three volumes entitled "Applications for Colonial Appointments, 1832," but containing also other correspondence of Lord Ripon (at that time Lord Goderich) as Secretary for War and Colonies. The replies are in many cases drafted by the private secretaries, Blayney Townley Balfour or Charles Eurwicke Douglas (K.B. 12 Oct. 1832), to whom a certain amount of the correspondence is directly addressed. Arranged in order of date within the alphabetic letter, but occasio...
Scope & Content:: Sir Charles Eurwicke Douglas, MP: Correspondence, drafts, etc., as sec. to Lord Goderich: 1832. Colonies British: Applications to Lord Goderich for colonial appointments: 1832. Blaney Townley Balfour, junior, of Townley Hall, Drogheda: Correspondence, etc., as Private Sec. to Lord Goderich at ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1832
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41134-41135
Title:: Vols. II, III (ff. 41, 75). Correspondence of Sir W. Chambers, copied for the most part in his own hand; 3 July 1772- 15 Jan. 1774,9 Jan. 1774-28 Aug. 1775. Among his correspondents abroad are members of his own family and others in Sweden, and in France the architect Julien David Le Roy and Mare René, Marquis de Voyer d'Argenson. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1772-1775
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41170-41171
Title:: ORIGINAL LETTERS and signed documents relating to the French Revolution, 16 July 1783-11 Thermidor, an 3 [29 July 1795]; mostly in French. Two volumes, vol. i ending 10 Germinal, an 2 [30 Mar. 17941. A considerable proportion of the earlier papers in Add. MS. 41170 are addressed to Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, Comte d'Antraigues, author and political adventurer (murdered 1812). The names of the writers are given in the Index.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1783-1795
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41188-41189
Title:: (ff. 357, 357). Letters (originally 230 in 226 folders; 7 letters and 2 folders now missing) to Charles Poney of Toulon, worker-poet, or his family; [27] Apr. 1842-15 Aug. 1857, [3 Jan. 1858]-3 Apr. 1876. A certain number have been published in the Correspondance de George Sand, 6 vols., 1882-1884, and many more are quoted by Samuel Rocheblave, "George Sand: Lettres à Poney," in the Revue des Deux Mondes, lii, 1909, pp. 599- 633, 902-934. The collection passed through the hands of Solange Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1842-1876
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41190-41191
Title:: (ff . 210, 215). Letters (241 in all) to her daughter Solange [1 June 1836]-12 July 1855, 25 July 1855-6 July 1873. Refused by Solange to her brother Maurice for the above-named edition of the Correspondence, and first used to any extent by S. Rocheblave, George Sand et sa Fille, 1905, a reprint of articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes of that year. The letter of 24 Aug. 1852 is a copy by Rocheblave, who also annotates most of the others. Paper. Quarto. 1836-1876.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1836-1873
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41232-41242
Title:: CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN PAPERS. Vols. XXVII-XXXVII. General correspondence and papers of Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman; 1871 (41241)-1908. Eleven volumes. Quarto and (the last two) folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1871-1908
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41268-41283
Title:: BLIGH PAPERS. Vols. I-XVI. Drafts of despatches from J. D. Bligh addressed to successive Foreign Secretaries, excepting George Granville, 2nd Earl Granville; 11 May 1830- 31 May 1856. A few original letters to Bligh are included as enclosures. Sixteen volumes. Folio. As follows:-
Scope & Content:: Foreign Office: Despatches, etc., to Foreign Secs. from Sir J. D. Bligh: 1830-1856.: Drafts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 11 May 1830-31 May 1856
Extent:: 16 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41284-41285
Title:: BLIGH PAPERS. Vols. XVII, XVIII (ff. 222, 222). Diplomatic correspondence of J. D. Bligh, chiefly with [Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount] Palmerston, as Secretary for Foreign Affairs; 6 July 1832-10 May 1833,14 May 1833-26 Aug. 1857. Among other correspondents are :Sir Robert Adair, on a special mission to Brussels; Sir G[eorge] Shee, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs; [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of] Minto, Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia; [Charles John Canning, Viscount...
Scope & Content:: Foreign Office: Despatches, etc., to Foreign Secs. from Sir J. D. Bligh: 1830-1856.: Drafts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1832-1857
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41364-41370
Title:: MARTIN PAPERS. Vols. XIX-XXV. Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Byam Martin. At the beginning of Add. MS. 41364 are letters and papers of his father, Sir Henry Martin (see Sir R. V. Hamilton, op. cit., i, pp. 195-246). At the end of Add. MS. 41368, ff. 219- 330b, are papers relating to reform in the naval dockyards, 1829-1831. Seven volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin: Letters and papers: 1752-1854.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: [1752-1854]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41512-41513
Title:: SERIES B. CORRESPONDENCE AS ENVOY TO THE BARBARY STATES. HEYTESBURY PAPERS. Vols. II, III (ff. 282, 250). Papers of A'Court as Envoy Extraordinary to the Barbary States; 1813-1814.
Scope & Content:: William A'Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury (1828); diplomatist: Dispatches and papers: 1812-1832.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1813-1814
Extent:: 2 items

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