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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 37850-37851
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. IX., X. (ff. 260, 268). Correspondence of W. Windham with Emperor John Alexander Woodford, Inspector General of Foreign Forces in British Pay; 1794-1810.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1794-1810
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37855-37872
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XIV.-XXXI. Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists; 1792-1810. The letters are infrequent till 1794, when (11 July) Windham became Secretary at War. He had for some time been regarded as the inheritor of Burke's antirevolutionary policy, and as the spokesman of that policy in Parliament. The management of the negotiations with the émigrés was now put into his hands, and the correspondence (most full in 1795, the year of the Quiberon Bay Expedition) throws muc...
Scope & Content:: William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Correspondence with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Vendée La, France: Correspondence of W. Windham with French Royalists: 1792-1810. Political Tracts: Tracts on the relations between England and France, chiefly relating to Royalist émigrés: 1792-1810.: F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1792-1810
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37873-37890
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. XXXII.-XLIX. General correspondence, political and military, of W. Windham; 1782-1810. Included are a few minutes sent in circulation to the Cabinet. Eighteen volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1782-1810
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37892-37901
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LI.-LX. "Returns of His Majesty's Forces." Ten volumes. Octavo. Bound in tooled red morocco.
Scope & Content:: Army; England: Returns of forces: 1794-1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: [1796-1800]
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37903-37904
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXII., LXIII. (ff. 293, 194). Military Memoranda, consisting chiefly of notes of conversations of Windham with French émigrés officers and others, extracts from dispatches, minutes of intelligence from abroad, motions to be brought before Parliament, estimates of the numbers of the Forces and the pay of the troops, and other papers relating to the defence of the country, etc.; 1792-1810. Included are:-(a) "Notes of a conversation with M. Georges" [Cadoudal], 13 Apr. 179...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1792-1810
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 37917-37919
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXVI.-LXXVIII. (ff. 350, 266, 266). Accompts of the Windham estates in Norfolk (Felbrigg, etc.), Suffolk (Sudbury, etc.), and Essex, with household bills, inventories, and other family papers, including letters from lawyers, bankers, agents, etc. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:: William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Rentals, etc., of his estates in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and other legal and family papers: 1754-1810. Felbrigg, Norfolk: Papers relating to the estate of W. Windham: 1775-1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1754-1810]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37921-37924
Title:: WINDHAM PAPERS. Vols. LXXX.-LXXXIII. (ff. 23, 41, 47, 91). Diaries of W. Windham; 1782-1802. Entirely distinct from the Diary of the Bight Hon. William Windham, 1784- 1810, edited by Mrs. Baring, 1866. Four volumes. Quarto (Vol. I.) and small folio. Vol. 1. Diary; 13 July-19 Dec. 1783. Followed (ff. 18-23) by extracts, partly in Windham's band and partly from the printed diary, 3 Oct. 1782, 4 Jan. 1785, 24 July, 5 Dec. 1790, 3 Oct. 1795-3 Mar. 1796 (cf. same dates in Vol. II.) Vols. II.-IV. ...
Scope & Content:: Diaries and Memoranda: W. Windham: 1782-1802.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1782-1802
Extent:: 4 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

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