Pocket engagement diaries 'The Polite Repository or Pocket Companion..' (1795-1798) and 'The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas...' (1799), with paper slip cases. George Canning has mainly noted his whereabouts and dinner engagements.
1. Printed inscriptions for memorial to William Pitt, and handwritten draft. 1813. 2. Drafts of various versions of inscriptions for memorial to George Ellis, including final draft approved by George Canning, May 1820. 3. Inscriptions for a monument to George Canning (c 1833). Handwritten draf...
Wooden dispatch box belonging to George Canning, originally containing bundles of correspondence with Lord Liverpool, for the period 1815 - 1826 (now files Add MS 89143/1/1/82, Add MS 89143/1/1/84, Add MS 89143/1/1/87, Add MS 89143/1/1/88, Add MS 89143/1/1/91, Add MS 89143/1/1/92, and Add MS 8914...
Letters sent to the Leigh family bound in a journal (25 November, 1793 – 1795). Two pages of ‘General Rules’ inserted at the front of the volume state that the journal is only to be read by close family members and that if mentioned in front of strangers, it is to be referred to as an ordinary ...
Letter to George Canning Senior from Mrs Catherine Jemmat, 28 March 1770, enclosing printed proposal for second edition of 'Miscellanies'. Two letters from George Canning to his mother Mary Anne, 8 November 1804 and 25 January 1813. Verse entitled ‘To Aunts Leigh & Fanny with their annual ...
Various poems and verse, including drafts and fair copies, concerning a variety of topics including politics. Includes: Poems and verse (27 June, 1784 – 1813) from G. Canning to Reverend William Leigh. Verse (23 November, 1822). ‘On the Rt. Honble. George Canning’. 13 pages of text on parchment.