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1. Add MS 49471-49517

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Add MS 49471-49517
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS 49471-49517. Correspondence and papers of General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Bart. (b. 1773, d. 1851), together with early nineteenth century copies of eighteenth century military and diplomatic papers; 1756-1842, n.d. Related charters are now Add. Ch. 75819-75831. Forty-seven volumes.
Scope & Content:
Peninsular War: Correspondence, etc., rel. to: 1808-1814: Partly Fr., Span., and Portug. General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1797-1842, n.d. Army; England: Correspondence, etc., of Sir J. W. Gordon: 1797-1842, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1756-1842
Extent:
66 items

2. Add MS 49512 A-D

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Add MS 49512 A-D
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vol. XLII A-D. Letter books; 1807-1833. Folio and quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807-1833
Extent:
4 items

3. Add MS 49514 A-C

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Add MS 49514 A-C
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vol. XLIV A-C. Military papers; 1761-1783. Copies, aft. 1801-1806.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1801-1806
Extent:
3 items

4. Add MS 49492-49493

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Add MS 49492-49493
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vols. XXII, XXIII. Letters of Lt.-Gen. Sir Thomas Henry Browne; 1813-1816. Followed (49493, ff. 71-182b) by letters of Lt.-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, afterwards Governor of Nova Scotia and Ceylon; 1812-1839.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1812-1839
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 49500-49509

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Add MS 49500-49509
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vols. XXX-XXXIX. General Correspondence; 1797-1842, n.d. The maps accompanying 49503, f. 76; 49504, f. 126; and 49505, f. 30, are now separately placed as 49517 I-M. Ten volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
1797-1842
Extent:
10 items

6. Add MS 49511

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Scope & Content:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vol. XLI (ff. i+24). 'Memorandum relative to the Defence of Great Britain'; 1824. Lithograph. Included are:- (a) 'Memorandum upon the Defence of the Coast of England, and more particularly of that between Harwich and Portsmouth'. ff. 3-15b;- (b) 'Proposed Arrangement ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 49517 A-N

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Add MS 49517 A-N
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vol. XLVII A-N. Maps, mostly outsize, extracted from 49482, 49483, 49485, 49486, 49503-49505, followed by one map, 49517 N, of unknown provenance.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1808-1834]
Extent:
14 items

8. Add MS 49515 A-B

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Add MS 49515 A-B
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vol. XLV A, B. Exercises in navigation undertaken on H.M.S. St Albans, during its voyage from England to America; 1798. Quartos.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 49477-49479

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Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vols. VII-IX. Correspondence with Charles Grey, Viscount Howick, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister; 1807-1841, n.d. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick; 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister: Correspondence with Sir J. W. Gordon: 1807-1841, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807-1841
Extent:
3 items

10. Add MS 49472-49473

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Add MS 49472-49473
Title:
WILLOUGHBY GORDON PAPERS. Vols. II, III. Correspondence, partly as his military secretary, with Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany; 1804-1825. Preceded (49472, ff. 1-5b) by copies of letters exchanged between the Dukes of York and Kent about Gordon's military status, 1801. Followed (49473, ff. 129-162b) by copies of Gordon's letters to the Duke of York on the war in Spain, 13 Aug.-19 Nov. 1812, and (49473, ff. 163-206b) by letters in French from the Duke of York's wife, Frederica Ch...
Scope & Content:
Francis Dighton, of Commander-in-Chief's Office, Horse-Guards: Memoranda to,: 1804-1809.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1804-1825
Extent:
2 items