Archive Reference (shelfmark): Add MS 49086-49172 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49099-49100
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XIV, XV. Two experiment books, Purfleet; 1782-1783. Fair copies. Brown calf binding.
Scope & Content:: Gunpowder: Note-books of G. Napier rel. to experiments in its manufacture, etc.,: 1782, 1783.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1782-1783
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49101
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. i+38). 'Maniere de faire la Poudre a Canon', as well as other kinds of gunpowder; aft. 12 Feb. 1756 (f. 34). French copy, made for Napier's use, [1782?]. Brown calf binding. Gunpowder: Note-books of G. Napier rel. to experiments in its manufacture, etc.,: 1782, 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1782?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49102
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. i+11). Recipes, instructions, etc., for the manufacture of ordnance supplies, including (f. 26b) instructions, etc., for fitting out a fireship; circa 1782, 1783. Fair copy. Quarter morocco binding. Gunpowder: Note-books of G. Napier rel. to experiments in its ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1777-1787
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49103
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. i+32). Notebook of George Napier as Deputy Quartermaster-General, containing 'Review of a Battalion with the 18 Manoeuvres abridged from Genl Dundas 1795', i.e. from General Sir David Dundas, Principles of Military Movements, 2nd ed., 1795. General Sir David Dunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1795
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49104
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. i+41). Notebook of George Napier as Comptroller of Army Accounts, Ireland, containing memoranda, mostly dated, of matters to be attended to, copies of letters, etc.; 1 Mar. 1799-2 Nov. 1802. Brown calf binding. Ireland: Correspondence, etc., of G. Napier as Comptr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Mar 1799-2 Nov 1802
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49105
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XX (ff. 196). Correspondence with Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General of India; 1842-1853. At f. 4 is a certified copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India to Maj.-Gen. Sir William Nott, G.C.B., 13 July 1842, and at f. 53 a copy by Napier o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1842-1853
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49105-49147
Title:: B. PAPERS OF LT.-GEN. SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER 49105-49147. Correspondence and papers of Lt.-Gen. Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., (b. 1782, d. 1853), the conqueror and Governor of Sind and subsequently Commander-in-Chief, India. Supplemented by Add. MSS. 54510-54564. Both series of papers were widely used for various biographical and historical works, notably by Gen. Sir William Napier, The Conquest of Scinde, 1845; History of . . . Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, 1851; The...
Scope & Content:: Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB: Correspondence and papers: 1801-1853. India: Correspondence, etc., of Sir C. J. Napier, as commander in Sind and Commander-in-Chief, India: 1841-1851.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:: [1801-1853]
Extent:: 45 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49106
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XXI (ff. 146). Correspondence with James Andrew Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India, including military despatches (partly copies) between the Military Department of the Government of India and the Indian Army; 1849-1851. Ff. 1-35b comprise correspondence...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1849-1851
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49107
Title:
Scope & Content:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 185). Correspondence with Capt. Frederick Robinson, R.A.; 1833-1853. Followed (f. 181) by a letter of Lord Ellenborough to Robinson, 2 Dec. 1856, and (f. 182) by extracts by Robinson from Napier's letters to him. See also Add. MS. 54536, ff. 1-101b. Captain Frederi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1833-1853
Extent:: 1 item

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