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Title:
Eastlake-Knocker
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Sir James Graham, a trustee of North, sends a series of letters in 1817 at the time of North's inheriting the Guilford title and property. William Knocker, North's estate steward at Waldershare, Kent, writes about tenancy and estate matters. John Jewell claims payment for a vessel which he had s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1810-1826
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Lake-Nash
Scope & Content:
North's brother-in-law, John Lindsay, writes about his tenancy of the Channel Island of Herm. Prime Minister Lord Liverpool recommends a candidate for the position of North's deputy as Chamberlain of the Exchequer. In a correspondence with Lord Morley, Morley agrees to receive North's proxy for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1826
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Needle-Verney
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Includes a letter from Sir Walter Scott thanking North for allowing Scott's friend Mr Blair to visit his library. Ann Needle Death certificate of John Needle Thomas G Newcomen & Co John Nicholson, with a recommendation to the Bloomsbury Dispensary Rev Alexander Nicoll Berkeley Noel Edward Nu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1808-1830
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Walford-York, unidentified correspondents
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William Walford, steward of North's Wroxton Abbey estate, writes about the house and estate, and also about the Corporation of Banbury, and the election as MP of Arthur Legge in 1826. Rev Edward Gibbs Walford (10 letters) William Walford (14 letters, one with an enclosure from Mr J Brown of Ring...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1826
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Notes and drafts of historical researches
Scope & Content:
Mostly consists of notes on Venetian and Roman history. Also included are book lists and Russian and Arabic vocabulary lists.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
circa 1790-1827
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Boyd
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Letters addressed to William Boyd, North's secretary in Corsica and then Ceylon, former secretary to the Consul at Venice. With three letters addressed to his brother, James Boyd, including one from Horatio Nelson, [1796]. Alexander Adamson Patrick Ballantine [Luigi?] Belgodere de Bagnaja [Luisa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1791-1802
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Adam-G Arbuthnot
Scope & Content:
Consists mainly of a correspondence between Glenbervie and George Arbuthnot, deputy to his brother Robert Arbuthnot in the Ceylon Civil Service and later a partner in the Madras firm of Francis Lautour & Co. He describes North's measures as Governor, including retrenchments in the civil serv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1803
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
M Arbuthnot-Bertolacci
Scope & Content:
Robert Arbuthnot, of the Ceylon Civil Service, writes to Lord Glenbervie about the Kandyan War, the death of Glenbervie's cousin Sylvester Gordon in Ceylon, and the deaths of many other Europeans from fever. To Lady Glenbervie he describes the Courts of Greater and Lesser Appeal. Lord Glenbervie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1798-1807
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Boehm-Desoulavy
Scope & Content:
William Boyd, secretary and later trustee of North, writes to Lord Glenbervie about Ceylon affairs including the Supreme Court and the pearl fisheries. There are also letters from Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, Chief Justice of Ceylon. Messrs Edmund Boehm & Co William Boyd (9 letters) Maj...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1804
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Donegall-Francis North
Scope & Content:
Includes London booksellers' bills and a copies of a deposition by Mahomed Gani, servant of Ensign Robert Barry, concerning the killing of Barry and his fellow officers at Kandy, Ceylon. Barbara, Dowager Marchioness of Donegall Thomas Eden William Frederick Elliott Eden Francis Edwards Thomas Eg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1804
Extent:
1 volume