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181. Add MS 88906/12/3

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Volume of political notes by Lord Lansdowne. Includes notes on Boswell’s life of Johnson and Macaulay’s essay on Chatham, on ‘Perils of Reform’ (Quarterly Review, July 1872) and ‘Financial grievances of Ireland’ (Quarterly Review, October 1872), and on Lord Selborne’s speech in the House of Lord...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1871-1875
Extent:
1 folder

182. Add MS 88906/12/4

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Personal letters and papers relating to significant moments in Lansdowne’s official career. 1. Letters on his resignation as Under Secretary for India, 1880. 2. Letters on his appointment as Governor-General of Canada, 1883. Includes a cutting from the Montreal Post attacking Lansdowne for the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883-1904
Extent:
1 folder

183. Add MS 88906/12/5

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Personal papers of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. Contents include: 1. Commission as Captain in the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry; 1865. 2. Letter to Lady Louisa Howard from Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, on the feelings of ‘Clan’ (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Viscount Clanmaurice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1865-1929
Extent:
1 folder

184. Add MS 88906/13/1

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Papers relating to the promotion and retirement of Army officers, chiefly arising from the Army Regulation Act of 1871 which abolished the purchase system. Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1874
Extent:
1 folder

185. Add MS 88906/13/2

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Parliamentary papers and newspaper cuttings relating to the Ashanti War. Printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1874
Extent:
1 folder

186. Add MS 88906/13/3

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Miscellaneous War Office correspondence. Subjects include the repair of British cemeteries in the Crimea, the case of Sir Henry Havelock-Allen (b. 1830, d. 1897) and his loss of promotion under the Army Regulation Act, and the proposed establishment of a Temperance Institute for the garrison at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1875
Extent:
1 folder

187. Add MS 88906/13/4

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Miscellaneous War Office papers. Contents include: 1. Papers relating to William Hope, V.C., and his claim to have invented the shrapnel shell. 2. Printed memoranda on army pensions, the management of Chelsea Hospital, and other matters. 3. Papers relating to the proposal to make Oxford a mil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1874
Extent:
1 folder

188. Add MS 88906/13/5

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Printed papers on the organisation of the Control Department. Most of these papers relate to an earlier reorganisation of the Department carried out in 1870 on the recommendation of Lord Northbrook’s committee.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867-1870
Extent:
1 folder

189. Add MS 88906/13/6

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Papers relating to Lansdowne’s committee, including corrected drafts of the final report. Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1874
Extent:
1 folder

190. Add MS 88906/13/7

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Parliamentary Acts relating to military matters. Printed, with manuscript list of contents at the beginning.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1868-1873
Extent:
1 volume

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