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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37354-37360
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols.VII.-XIII. Correspondence of C. Whitworth, as Envoy Extraordinary to Russia, with successive Secretaries of State, viz. Robert Harley [Earl of Oxford 1711], [Charles Spencer] Earl of Sunderland, Henry Boyle [Baron Carlton 1714], [James Douglas] Duke of Queensberry, and Henry St. John [Viscount Bolingbroke 1712], and with the Duke of Marlborough at the seat of war and other prominent persons in England and at foreign courts; 1704-1712. Besides the higher affairs of stat...
Scope & Content:: Peter the Great; Emperor of Russia: Correspondence, etc., of C. Whitworth, British Envoy, and his secretary L. C. Weisbrod: 1704-1712.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1704-1712
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37361-37362
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols. XIV., XV. Correspondence of C. Whitworth, as Minister at the Diet at Augsburg and Ratisbon; 1 July, 1714-10 Aug. 1716. It had been first intended that Whitworth should go to Baden, where terms of Peace were being arranged between France and the Empire. His credentials, however, 15 July, 1714 (f. 6), were to Augsburg, whither he went in August, but, the Diet being transferred to Ratisbon, his dispatches from 17 Sept. (N.S.), 1714, are dated from that place. The chief s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1 Jul 1714-10 Aug 1716
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37364-37372
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols. XVII.-XXV. Correspondence of C. Whitworth, as Envoy Extraordinary, etc., at the Hague during the absence of Gen. William Cadogan, Ambassador Extraordinary; 11 Mar. 1716/7-10 May (N.S.), 1719. He was sent to the Hague (without being recalled from Berlin) owing to the discovery of Swedish designs in aid of the Pretender's invasion of Scotland. During his stay Lord Cadogan twice returned to his post (in Sept. 1717, and in May, 1718-Jan. 1719), and the two then acted join...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands, United Provinces: Correspondence and papers of C. Whitworth, Envoy at the Hague: 1717-1719.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1717-1719
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37373-37389
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols. XXVI.-XLII. Correspondence of C. Whitworth [cr. Baron Whitworth 9 Jan. 1721] during his negotiations at the Prussian Court; 1719-1722. He arrived at Berlin from the Hague 6/17, May, 1719, the object of his embassy being to make "a nearer Allyance of Friendship and Union" [v. Lord Stanhope's letter 17 Apr. (0.S.), 1719]. He visited the Hague in June-Nov. 1720, and in July-Nov. 1721, and finally left Berlin for England in the beginning of June, 1722, having been appoint...
Scope & Content:: Frederick William I of Prussia: Correspondence and papers of C. Whitworth as Envoy at Berlin: 1716, 1719-1722.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1719-1722
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37390-37397
Title:: WHITWORTH PAPERS. Vols XLIII.-L. Correspondence of Lord Whitworth, as Plenipotentiary, in conjunction with Lord Polwarth, at the Congress of Cambray; 1722-1725. The Congress was held in accordance with a stipulation of the Quadruple Alliance with a view to adjust the remaining differences between the Empire and Spain, through the mediation of France and Great Britain. Though Whitworth's Full-powers and Instructions are dated 9 Feb. 172½, he did not arrive at Cambray till October. For a whole...
Scope & Content:: Congress of Cambray: Diplomatic correspondence of C. Whitworth and Lord Polwarth, Plenipotentiaries at: 1722-1725.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1722-1725
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37848-37849
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37914-37916
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37927-37931
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXXVI.-XC. Drafts of speeches by W. Windham, delivered, or intended for delivery, in Parliament. A few speeches are comparatively complete, but the majority are represented by fragmentary passages, notes of topics and quotations, etc. A few proof sheets of reports of speeches also occur. A selection of Windham's speeches was published in 1812, with an account of his life by Thomas Amyot, his secretary; these were taken partly from speeches published in pamphlet form, p...
Scope & Content:: William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Drafts of speeches: 1784-1810.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1784-1810]
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37983-37984
Title:: BLATHWAYT CORRESPONDENCE. Vols. V., VI. (ff. 263, 269). Letters of Bevil Skelton, Envoy to the Hanse Towns, to the same; 20 Dec. 1681, N.S.-17 July 1685, N.S. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:: Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway; Secretary of State 1623: Correspondence, as Secretary of State: 1680-1683.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1681-1685
Extent:: 2 items

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