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221. Add MS 45417-45441

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Add MS 45417-45441
Title:
ANDERSON PAPERS 45417-45441. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF DAVID ANDERSON, of the East India Company's Service, who was President of the Council of Revenue in Bengal, 1780-1785, and who concluded the Treaty of Salbai with the Maratha State in 1782. Some of the letters in this archive were printed by the Rev. G. R. Gleig in his Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, 1841. Twenty-five volumes. Folio (unless otherwise stated). Classified as follows:- A. Warren Hastings Corresp...
Scope & Content:
David Anderson, of the East India Company's Service: Correspondence and papers: 1766-1822. India: Correspondence and papers of D. Anderson: 1766-1822.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
[1766-1822]
Extent:
26 items

222. Add MS 46446-46450

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Add MS 46446-46450
Title:
RAMSAY PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir George Dalhousie Ramsay, C.B., of the War Office (b. 1828, d. 1920). He was Private Secretary 1849-1855, to both his uncle, Fox Maule (afterwards, 1861, Maule-Ramsay), 2nd Baron Panmure, 11th Earl of Dalhousie 1860, as Secretary at War and as Secretary of State for War, and also to the Hon. Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea 1861, as Secretary at War; he eventually became Assistant Director of Army Stores and Clothing and later, 1863-189...
Scope & Content:
Sir George Dalhousie Ramsay, of the War Office: Correspondence and papers: 1835-1898. Army; England: Papers of G. D. Ramsay rel. to the Royal Army Clothing Dept.: 1855-1898.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
[1835-1898]
Extent:
5 items

223. Add MS 48370

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Add MS 48370
Title:
VANSITTART PAPERS. Correspondence and papers relating to India of George Vansittart (b. 1745, d. 1825), M.P., of Bisham Abbey, co. Berks, Member of the Council of Bengal 1773-1774; 1775-1813. A few papers are in Persian. Most of the letters are from his friend, Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India, whose papers (Add. MSS. 28973-29236) they supplement. Among material concerning the case of Maharaja Nanda- Kuma[ ¯ ]r ('Nuncomar') is a copy (ff. 5b-6) of the Persian original of his petiti...
Scope & Content:
George Vansittart, MP: Letters to, from W. Hastings and others, etc.: 1775-1813. India: Correspondence and papers of G. Vansittart: 1775-1813. includes: ff. 1-68 passim Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India: Letters to G. Vansittart: 1775-1783.ff. 5-8b Nanda - Kumar, Maharajah; alias...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1775-1813
Extent:
1 item

224. Add MS 49086-49172

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Add MS 49086-49172
Title:
Napier Papers. Correspondence and papers of members of the Napier family; [1742?]-1933. Notes and endorsements by Richard Napier, fourth son of George Napier, 1851, passim. Presented, with Add. Ch. 75438, 75767, 75769-75790, by the executors of the will of the late Miss Violet Bunbury Napier, through Mr. J. Mainwaring Baines, F.S.A. Eighty-seven volumes. Arranged as follows:– A. Papers of Lt.-Col. the Hon. George Napier and his wife, Lady Sarah Napier: 49086-49104. B. Papers of Lt.-Ge...
Scope & Content:
Army; England: Papers of Napier family mostly rel. to military affairs: circa 1765-1933, n.d: Partly Fr. and Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
[1742?]-1933
Extent:
89 items

225. Add MS 52455-52459

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Add MS 52455-52459
Title:
SIR A. T. WILSON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, K.C.I.E. (b. 1884, d. 1940), mostly relating to his service in Mesopotamia as Deputy Chief Political Officer with Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' from 1915 to 1916, and as Deputy, afterwards Acting, Civil Commissioner from 1916 to 1920; 1915-1930. The collection was used and occasionally quoted by John Marlowe, Late Victorian, 1967, and by E. Kedourie in England and the Middle East, 1956. The transfer of the MSS. t...
Scope & Content:
Army; England: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. T. Wilson rel. to Mesopotamia: 1915-1930. Mesopotamia: Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, KCIE; MP: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. T. Wilson mostly rel. to Iraq,: 1915-1930.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, French, Hebrew, Panjabi, and Persian
Date Range:
1915-1930
Extent:
11 items

226. Add MS 54510-54563

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Add MS 54510-54563
Title:
SIR C. J. NAPIER PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier, the conqueror of Sind (b.1782, d.1853); 1801-1853. Some copies, drafts and printed material. Some French, Greek, and Italian. The collection supplements other papers of Sir C. J. Napier, Add. 49105-49147. When acquired, most of the papers were in the original dockets, endorsed by Napier: presumably the material was not used by biographers of Napier before 1968. See: P. V. Blake-Hill, 'The Napie...
Scope & Content:
India: Ionian Islands: Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB: Cephalonia, Ionian Islands: Army; England: Correspondence and papers of Sir C. J. Napier: 1801-1851, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
1801-1853
Extent:
54 items

227. Add MS 58149-58202

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Add MS 58149-58202
Title:
SUPPLEMENTARY LAYARD PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Sir Austen Henry Layard (b.1817, d.1894), archaeologist, traveller and diplomatist and his family; 1815-1947, n.d. Included are letters and papers of his wife Lady Mary Enid Evelyn Layard (d.1912), of his aunt and uncle, Sara and Benjamin Austen, and of the Guest family, together with a few other letters. Supplementing Add. 38931-39164; 40637; 46153-46170; 50149; 50182. Presented by Gordon Waterfield, Esq., of Tenterden, co. Kent, 23 ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence and papers from Sir Austen Henry Layard: 1815-1947, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1815-1947
Extent:
54 items

228. Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8

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Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8
Title:
BLENHEIM PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The archive, formerly housed at Blenheim Palace, co. Oxon, consists chiefly of the correspondence and papers of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife Sarah, née Jenyns, and their son-in-law Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, whose descendants by his second wife, Anne Churchill,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Catalan, Cipher, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
610 items

229. Add MS 70641-70676

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Add MS 70641-70676
Title:
Correspondence, papers, photographs and ephemera of the Cooper and Wilson families; circa 1857-1991. The collection relates principally to periods of residence in the Russian Caucasus, Iran and Iraq, and includes personal, consular and commercial papers. William John Cooper (b.1867, d.1943) was employed by the Government Indo-European Telegraph Department in India (1885-1889), and by the Indo-European Telegraph Company in Sukhumi, Georgia (1889?-1909) and in Iran (1909-1928), where he was ap...
Scope & Content:
Cooper family: Wilson family: Correspondence and papers of the Cooper and Wilson families: 1857?-1991: Partly Fr., Germ., Russ., Persian and Armenian: Partly signed, copies, cipher and printed. Winifred Gertrude Wilson, née Cooper; daughter of W J Cooper: Correspondence and papers of Winifred G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Armenian, English, French, German, Persian, Russian, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1857-1991
Extent:
36 items

230. Add MS 88942

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Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

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