1. Add MS 49086-49087
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 49086-49087
- Title:
- NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. I, II. Official correspondence and papers of George Napier as Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich; 1777-Apr. 1783, n.d. Apparently used, together with 49093-49102, for his monograph, 'The Composition of Gunpowder', communicated to the Royal Irish Academy in 1788 and published in the same year in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of Artillery, ii, 1788, pp. 97-118. Preceded (49086, ff. 1-17) by other letters and papers, mostly on ordnance, gunpowder, etc...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1777-Apr 1783
- Extent:
- 2 items