HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. CCXXXVI.-CCXLIX. General correspondence of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke; 1704-1764. With the exception of the early private letters, many of which are in Latin, the contents are mainly political or concerned with patronage. Fourteen volumes. Paper. Folio.
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. CCLVII.-CCLXXVII. General correspondence of Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1754), 2nd Earl of Hardwicke (1764), Teller of the Exchequer (1738), Trustee of the British Museum (1753), Lord Lieutenaut of co. Cambridge (1757), High Steward of Cambridge University (1764), etc.; 1737-1790. Twenty-one volumes. Paper. Folio.
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Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke: General correspondence: 1739 -1790.
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. CXXXVIII.-CXLVII. Diplomatic letter-books of Robert Keith while at Vienna and St. Petersburg (see above); 1748-1762. Ten volumes. Vol. I. contains private letters from Vienna to the Secretaries of State, preceded (ff. 1-12) by a short correspondence of Lord Sandwich; Vols. II.-VI., official letters to the Secretaries of State; and Vol. VII., official letters to English Ministers at foreign Courts and others. Vols. VIII.-X. relate to the embassy to Russia. Vol. VIII. i...
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Robert Keith, Ambassador at St Petersburg: Letter-books: 1748-1762.
HARDWICKE PAPERS. Vols. CXIII.-CXXXVII. Correspondence, chiefly diplomatic, of Robert Keith, Minister-Plenipotentiary at Vienna (1748-1757) and Envoy-Extraordinary at St. Petersburg (1757-1762), with a few private letters addressed to him after his retirement from the diplomatic service; 1748-1774. The principal writers are the Duke of Newcastle, the Earls of Holderness and Bute, and George Grenville, Secretaries of State, the Earl of Sandwich at Aix-la-Chapelle, Benjamin Keene at Madrid, Si...
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Robert Keith, Ambassador at St Petersburg: General correspondence: 1748-1774.