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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37279-37280
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. VI., VII. Correspondence and papers relating to Madras; 1797-1807. The principal writers are Edward, 2nd Baron Clive, Governor 1797-1803, Josiah Webbe, Government Secretary, Col. William Kirkpatrick and Col. James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Residents at Hyderabad, and William Petrie, Member of Council [Governor 1807]. Two volumes. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General Indian correspondence: 1797-1807. India: Correspondence, etc., of Lord Wellesley, as Governor-General: 1797-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1797-1807
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37286-37288
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XIII.-XV. Correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley relating to Spain and Portugal, chiefly as Ambassador Extraordinary in 1809 to the Central Junta at Seville; 1804-1809. Three volumes. Included are letters from George Canning, Foreign Secretary, Sir Arthur Wellesley [Viscount Wellington Sept. 1809], John Hookham Frere, whom Lord Wellesley superseded as Ambassador Extraordinary, John Charles Villiers, Envoy to Portugal, Maj. Colin Campbell, who gives an account of the ...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: Correspondence when ambassador to Spain: 1804-1809. Richard Wellesley, MP: Correspondence relating to his movements in Spain: 1808, 1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1804-1809
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37291-37294
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XVIII.-XXI. Correspondence and papers relating to foreign affairs, chiefly during the time (Dec. 1809-Feb. 1812) when the Marquis Wellesley was Foreign Secretary; 1793-1840. Four volumes. Among the subjects treated are: (a) the progress of the war in the Peninsula;-(b) the expedition of Capt. George Cockburn to Quiberon Bay in 1810 to attempt the release of Ferdinand IV. of Spain, imprisoned in the castle of Valençay;-(c) the capture from the French of the Île de Fran...
Scope & Content:: Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: General foreign correspondence: 1793-1840.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1793-1840
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37308-37313
Title:: WELLESLEY PAPERS. Vols. XXXV.-XL. General correspondence of the Marquis Wellesley; 1773-1842. Many of the letters, though not strictly coming under the head of "official," are from successive Ministers of State and discuss current political questions. Six volumes. Paper. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1773-1842
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38033-38035
Title:: Vols. VI.-VIII. (ff. 522, 541, 563). "Lettres de plusieurs Princes et Princessees et Grands Seigneurs"; 1537- 1658. Many of them are written to the above-named Dues d'Aumale and Duo de Guise, and some to Claude de Lorraine, lst Due de Guise (d. 1550). Included in Vol. VIII. are:-(a) Letters, etc., relating to the affairs of Savoy, 1568-1622. f. 303;-(b) Treatise "touchant l'ordre qui doibt estre tenu pour s'apprester a donner vne Bataille. f. 357;-(c) "Lettre au Roy [Henri IV.] par Monsieur ...
Scope & Content:: Claude de Lorraine, Duc d'Aumale: Correspondence,: 1548-1558.: Copies. Francois de Lorraine, Duc d'Aumale and afterwards 2nd Duc de Guise: Correspondence: 1546-1557.: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1537-1658
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38421-38425
Title:: LIVERPOOL PAPERS. Vols. CCXXXII-CCXXXVI. Papers relating to Mint and Coinage, including some official Mint documents, but chiefly consisting of correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Liverpool on coinage and coinage matters; mid. 18th cent.-1823. Both Earls were members of the Privy Council Committee on Coinage. The 2nd Earl was also Master of the Mint (1799-1801), but despite statements to the contrary, the 1st Earl (to whom most of the papers relate) does not appear to have ...
Scope & Content:: Coinage: Papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Liverpool rel. to Mint and coinage: mid 18th cent. -1823.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Mid 18th century-1823
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38493-38495
Title:: Copies of Moreau's newsletters and despatches to the King [of Poland, John III Sobieski], with enclosures (resolutions of the States-general, diplomatic correspondence, etc.) and a few other papers. The despatches are not signed or addressed, but their destination and the writer's official position are evident (e.g. from the reference to the deliverance of Vienna from the Turks, 38493, f. 6), and his name occurs in some of the enclosures (38493, ff. 14b, 16b, 37-39). The contents of the thre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1686-1689
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40221-40279
Title:: B. General Correspondence PEEL PAPERS. Vols. XLI-XCIX. General Correspondence of Sir R. Peel, as Chief Secretary for Ireland ; 1812-1818. A number of papers of his predecessors in office are prefixed to the first volume. Fifty-nine volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1812-1818
Extent:: 59 items

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