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31. Add MS 89036/3

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Papers Relating to the Duke of Portland
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and associated papers deriving primarily from the period (1807-1809) when Adams served as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, the Duke of Portland. Includes two prior items of correspondence.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1809
Extent:
4 files

32. Add MS 89036/3/1

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Duke of Portland Papers (1)
Scope & Content:
The first two letters pre-date Adams's appointment: 1(i). St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, 21 December 1794, C. J. Fox to John King, Secretary of State's Office, Whitehall. Fragment, final sheet only. 1(ii). Llyswen (Powys, Wales), 26 January 1799, John Thelwall to Portland. Concerning a parcel sent t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1807
Extent:
1 file

33. Add MS 89036/3/2

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Duke of Portland Papers (2)
Scope & Content:
Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/3/1: 69. Letter cover, 22 June 1808, addressed to the Marquiss of Buckinghamshire. With message on the verso, dated 24 June, seeking 'Fifty Hundred Thousand Gold Guineas Value Into My Possession by Safe Military Guard....' 69(i). Further letter cove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1809
Extent:
1 file

34. Add MS 89036/3/3

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Duke of Portland Papers (3)
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Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/3/2: 113. Treasury Chambers, 6 July [1809], Charles Arbuthnot to [Adams]. 'I thought it as well to mention to Mr. Perceval that there was a wish to get Mr. Greville appointed to the Receivership in Nottinghamshire.' 114. Welbeck, 6 July 1809, Scott ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1809
Extent:
1 file

35. Add MS 89036/3/4

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Duke of Portland Papers (4)
Scope & Content:
Ordered according to prior Public Record Office numbering, beginning 271: 271. Letter cover (with black seal), franked 16 May 1807, Henry Cowper to The Lord Chancellor [Eldon]. Informing Eldon that he will be in Devon on business. Brief annotation by Eldon. 272. Leicester Square, 24 June 1807. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1807-1809
Extent:
1 file

36. Add MS 89036/4

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Correspondence, Office of Woods and Forests
Scope & Content:
The files include some correspondence prior to Adams's appointment (1811) as a Commissioner, and a number of letters addressed to other Commissioners.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1803-1846
Extent:
2 files

37. Add MS 89036/4/1

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Correspondence, Office of Woods and Forests (1)
Scope & Content:
80-81. (Retained by the Adams family.) Warrant of Queen Mary, 'Given at our Court at Whitehall this sixth day of Aprill 1692, And in the Third Year of Our Reign'. 'The Queen's Warrant with Orders about St. James's Park'. 82-83. Akethorpe, 12 January 1803, Lord Westmorland to [Lord Glenbervie]. Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1803-1820
Extent:
1 file

38. Add MS 89036/4/2

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Correspondence, Office of Woods and Forests (2)
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Document numbering continues from Add MS 89036/4/1: 187-188. 29 March 1821, T. D. Acland to Huskisson. Concerning Mr. Salisbury and possible employment. 189A-189B. 3 July [1821], Bishop of Chichester [John Buckner] to Huskisson. Recommending George Jones for the position of Porter at Somerset Ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821-1846
Extent:
1 file

39. Add MS 89036/5

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Personal Correspondence, and Other Miscellaneous Material
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with Thomas Peregrine Courtenay and with Adams family members, together some additional miscellaneous material.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1861
Extent:
3 files

40. Add MS 89036/5/1

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Correspondence with Thomas Peregrine Courtenay
Scope & Content:
1-1(i). Treasury Chambers, 26 September 1801, Courtenay to Adams. Discusses change of administration. 'I do not think that Mr. Pitt can ever come again without giving up the Catholic question; this, I fear, he will not do - & I hope & trust that the King will not be less obstinate on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1835
Extent:
1 file