ABERDEEN PAPERS. Vols. CCCXV, CCCXVI (ff. i + 59, i + 71). Letter-books containing autograph copies and drafts of the despatches and letters written to successive Foreign Secretaries by Henry Watkin Williams- Wynn (K.C.B. 1851), as Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Saxony; 1804-1806. On the spines were notes (now ff. i, i) 'Sir R. Gordon 1804' and 'Sir R. Gordon 1806', but there is nothing to indicate how the volumes came into his possession.
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Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn, GCH 1831; diplomatist: Letterbooks of official correspondence as Envoy to Saxony: 1804-1806.: Autogr. copies.
ABERDEEN PAPERS. Vol. CCCX (ff. 14). 'Alice Gordon journal depuis mon depart de Fulham 11 Decembre 1824'; a journal of a voyage from Fulham to Nice, 11 Dec. 1824-6 Jan. 1825, kept by the Hon. Alice Gordon, daughter of George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. At f. 8 is an account of Nice, and on f. 14b (re...