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Add MS 49531-49593
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THE HALIFAX PAPERS

49531-49593. Correspondence and papers of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (b. 1800, d. 1885); 1816-1889. Presented, with material transferred to the Depart-ment of Printed Books, by Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, through the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Sixty-three volumes. Folio, unless otherwise stated.

Classified as follows:-

A. Special correspondence: 49531-49552.

B. Family correspondence: 49553.

C. General correspondence: 49554-49561.

D. Admiralty letter books: 49562-49570.

E. Naval papers: 49571-49593.

Scope & Content:

Navy; England: Correspondence and papers of Lord Halifax: 1833-1858.

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax: Correspondence and papers: 1832-1879.

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Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.C.B., mostly as…" },{ "id" : "040-002016338", "parent" : "037-002016337", "text" : "Add MS 49533: Vol. III (ff. 180). 1843-Oct. 1855. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, KCB: Correspondence with Lord Halifax: 1843-1857.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016339", "parent" : "037-002016337", "text" : "Add MS 49534: Vol. IV (ff. 138). Nov. 1855-Mar. 1857. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, KCB: Correspondence with Lord Halifax: 1843-1857.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016340", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49535-49540: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. V-X. Letters of Vice-Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean;…" },{ "id" : "040-002016341", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49535: Vol. V (ff. 208). Mar.-July 1855. includes: f. 5 Field-Marshal Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan: Correspondence with Lord…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016342", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49536: Vol. VI (ff. 187). Aug.-Sept. 1855. includes: ff. 21, 30, 119, 165, 172, 174, 183 General Sir James Simpson, GCB: Correspondence with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016343", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49537: Vol. VII (ff. 209). Oct.-Dec. 1855. includes: f. 5 Major-General John Spurway, RA: Letter to Lord Lyons: 1855. f. 12 Commander Francis…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016344", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49538: Vol. VIII (ff. 214). Jan.-Aug. 1856. includes: ff. 6-8b, 10, 21-33b, 39 Napoleon III of France: Papers rel. to Anglo-French naval and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016345", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49539: Vol. IX (ff. 212). Sept. 1856-Mar. 1857. includes: ff. 23, 79 Count Anton Franz Prokesch-Osten, Count Prokesch von Claten; Austrian…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016346", "parent" : "037-002016340", "text" : "Add MS 49540: Vol. X (ff. 199). Apr. 1857-Mar. 1858. includes: ff. 151, 154 Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons GCB: George William…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016347", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49541-49543: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XI-XIII. Letters of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Houston Stewart, G.C.B., as Second in Command in the…" },{ "id" : "040-002016348", "parent" : "037-002016347", "text" : "Add MS 49541: Vol. XI (ff. 173). 1855-Feb. 1856. includes: ff. 83-84b Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons GCB: Correspondence with Sir H.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016349", "parent" : "037-002016347", "text" : "Add MS 49542: Vol. XII (ff. 217). Mar.-Nov. 1856. includes: ff. 13, 134 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Houston Stewart, GCB: Correspondence with Sir W. J.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016350", "parent" : "037-002016347", "text" : "Add MS 49543: Vol. XIII (ff. 153). 1857-1858. West Inches: Correspondence and papers of Lord Halifax rel. to,: 1855-1858. North and Central America:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016351", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49544-49545: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XIV, XV. Letters of his brother-in-law, Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick William Grey, G.C.B., mostly as…" },{ "id" : "040-002016352", "parent" : "037-002016351", "text" : "Add MS 49544: Vol. XIV (ff. 247). 1855-Mar. 1856. includes: f. 1 Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey, GCB: Letter to Sir J. R. G. Graham: 1855. f. 1…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016353", "parent" : "037-002016351", "text" : "Add MS 49545: Vol. XV (ff. 245). Apr. 1856-1859. Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey, GCB: Correspondence with his brother-in-law, Lord Halifax:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016354", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49546: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. 286). Letters of Admiral the Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford, K.C.B., as Admiral Superintendent of Malta…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016355", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49547: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 212). Correspondence with Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.B., as Commander-in-Chief in North America and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016356", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49548: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XVIII (ff. 130). Correspondence with Admiral John Elphinstone Erskine; 1856-1857. Partly printed. West Inches:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016357", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49549: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XIX (ff. 176). 1. ff. 1-112. Letters of Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce, K.C.B., as Commander-in-Chief in the…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016358", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49550: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XX (ff. 155). Letters of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.B., mostly as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016359", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49551: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XXI (ff. 281). Large folio. 1. ff. 1-40b. Letters of Sir Henry George Ward, G.C.M.G., Governor of Ceylon;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016360", "parent" : "036-002016334", "text" : "Add MS 49552: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 248). Correspondence with:– 1. ff. 1-101b. Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook; 1855-1856.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016361", "parent" : "032-002016333", "text" : "Add MS 49553: B. FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE 49553. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 200). Family correspondence of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax; circa…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-002016362", "parent" : "032-002016333", "text" : "Add MS 49554-49561: C. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 49554-49561. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XXIV-XXXI. General correspondence of Lord Halifax; 1816-1889. Partly…" },{ "id" : "040-002016363", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49554: Vol. XXIV (ff. 181). 1816-Mar. 1855. includes: f. 1 Admiral Sir Edward Chetham, afterwards Chetham-Strode; KCB: Letter to: 1816. f. 1…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016364", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49555: Vol. XXV (ff. 262+32*). Apr.-June 1855.includes:f. 1 Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sartorius, GCB: Memoranda by: 1855:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016365", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49556: Vol. XXVI (ff. 240). July-Sept. 1855. includes: f. 1 Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio Thomas Austin, KCB: Letters, etc., to Lord Halifax: 1855:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016366", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49557: Vol. XXVII (ff. 239). Oct.-Dec. 1855. includes: ff. 1, 5 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto; formerly Elliot: Letters…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016367", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49558: Vol. XXVIII (ff. 294+154*, 154**). Jan.-Aug. 1856.includes:f. 1 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, GCB: Correspondence with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016368", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49559: Vol. XXIX (ff. 233). Sept. 1856-Feb. 1857.includes:f. 1 Admiral Sir William Robert Mends, GCB: Letter to Lord Halifax: 1856.__NEWLINE__…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016369", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49560: Vol. XXX (ff. 268). Mar. 1857-May 1858. includes: ff. 1-4b Arthur FitzGerald Kinnaird, 10th Baron Kinnaird: Correspondence with Lord…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016370", "parent" : "036-002016362", "text" : "Add MS 49561: Vol. XXXI (ff. 273). 1859-1889.includes:f. 1 Admiral Sir Charles Eden, KCB: Letter, etc., to Lord Halifax: 1859.__NEWLINE__ f. 3…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-002016371", "parent" : "032-002016333", "text" : "Add MS 49562-49570: D. ADMIRALTY LETTER BOOKS 49562-49570. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XXXII-XL. Letter Books of Lord Halifax as First Lord of the…" },{ "id" : "040-002016372", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49562: Vol. XXXII (ff. ii+157). 'Vol. VIII'. Mar.-12 June 1855. includes: ff. 50b, 93b Victoria of England; Albert, Prince Consort:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016373", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49563: Vol. XXXIII (ff. ii+154). 'Vol. IX'. 9 June-20 Aug. 1855. includes: f. 1 Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Northbrook:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016374", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49564: Vol. XXXIV (ff. ii+156). 'Vol. X'. 21 Aug.-12 Nov. 1855. includes: f. 1 Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Northbrook:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016375", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49565: Vol. XXXV (ff. ii+158). 'Vol. XI'. 13 Nov. 1855-May 1856. includes: f. 1 Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Northbrook:…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016376", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49566: Vol. XXXVI (ff. ii+156). 'Vol. XII'. 2 June 1856-26 Feb. 1857. includes: ff. 13b, 64b, 66b, 84b Victoria of England: Correspondence with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016377", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49567: Vol. XXXVII (ff. ii+156). 'Vol. XIII'. 27 Feb.-26 Oct. 1857." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016378", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49568: Vol. XXXVIII (ff. ii+156). 'Vol. XIV'. 29 Oct. 1857-8 Apr. 1858. includes: ff. 1b, 2b, 6b, 11b Victoria of England; Albert, Prince…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016379", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49569: Vol. XXXIX (ff. ii+153). 'Index'. 1855-1858." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016380", "parent" : "036-002016371", "text" : "Add MS 49570: Vol. XL (ff. ii+155). 'Telegraphs'. Telegrams; 19 Apr. 1855-13 Dec. 1857. includes: ff. 44b, 45 Victoria of England: Correspondence with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-002016381", "parent" : "032-002016333", "text" : "Add MS 49571-49593: E. NAVAL PAPERS." },{ "id" : "040-002016382", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49571: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLI (ff. 67). Memorandum Book of Lord Halifax as Secretary of the Admiralty, mostly relating to the Royal Naval…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016383", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49572: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLII (ff. 199). Large folio. 1. ff. 1-37b. Papers relating to the impressment of seamen into the Royal Navy and to…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016384", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49573: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLIII (ff. i+20). Memorandum book of Commander John Hoskins Brown, Registrar of Merchant Seamen, relating to the…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016385", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49574: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLIV (ff. i+16). Steam vessels in the Royal Navy, with statistics relating to their construction; 1839. British…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016386", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49575: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLV (ff. 4). Press-cuttings, mostly from the pre-publication serialisation of the chapter on the U.S. Navy and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016387", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49576-49578: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XLVI-XLVIII (ff. i+62, i+66, i+63). Three memorandum books of Lord Halifax relating to the appointments of…" },{ "id" : "040-002016388", "parent" : "037-002016387", "text" : "Add MS 49576: Vol. XLVI, 1855-1857" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016389", "parent" : "037-002016387", "text" : "Add MS 49577: Vol. XLVII, 1855-1857" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016390", "parent" : "037-002016387", "text" : "Add MS 49578: Vol. XLVIII, 1855-1857" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016391", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49579: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XLIX (ff. i+183). 'Minute Book' of appointments made personally by Lord Halifax as First Lord of the Admiralty;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016392", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49580: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. L (ff. i+9). Promotions of Lieutenants and Commanders; 1855-1858. Annotated with reasons or occasions for…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016393", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49581: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LI (ff. i+26). Memorandum by Lord Halifax on a plan to retire Commanders; 1858. Preceded (ff. 1-6) by a draft of…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016394", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49582-49586: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. LII-LVI. Papers relating to the Navy Estimates; 1848-1859. Partly (48582, 48586) or mostly (49583-49585)…" },{ "id" : "040-002016395", "parent" : "037-002016394", "text" : "Add MS 49582: Vol. LII (ff. i+29). Post Office Department (Packet Service) Estimate and Supplementary Navy Estimates only for 1855-1856; 1855.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016396", "parent" : "037-002016394", "text" : "Add MS 49583: Vol. LIII (ff. i+104). For 1856-1857; 1856." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016397", "parent" : "037-002016394", "text" : "Add MS 49584: Vol. LIV (ff. 1+103). For 1857-1858; 1857." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016398", "parent" : "037-002016394", "text" : "Add MS 49585: Vol. LV (ff. i+103). For 1858-1859; 1858. includes: f. 3 Sir Richard Madox Bromley, KCB; Navy Accountant-General: Correspondence with…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016399", "parent" : "037-002016394", "text" : "Add MS 49586: Vol. LVI (ff. 144). Miscellaneous papers; 1848-1859. includes: f. 35 Admiral Robert Craigie: Returns signed by: 1855, 1856. ff. 60, 61…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "037-002016400", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49587-49588: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. LVII, LVIII. Papers mostly relating to the transport service to and from the Crimea, mostly compiled for use…" },{ "id" : "040-002016401", "parent" : "037-002016400", "text" : "Add MS 49587: Vol. LVII (ff. 183). 1850-1857. William Schaw Lindsay, MP; ship-owner: Papers rel. to Parliamentary controversies with, mostly conc.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016402", "parent" : "037-002016400", "text" : "Add MS 49588: Vol. LVIII (ff. 84). 1855-1856. The Crimea, Russia: Papers rel. to Crimean transport service: 1855, 1856. includes: f. 11 Henry John…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016403", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49589: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LIX (ff. 138). Papers relating to the promotion, employment and retirement of naval officers; 1855-1857. Partly…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016404", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49590: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LX (ff. 6). Steam and other vessels forming the fleet reviewed by Queen Victoria at Spithead, 23 Apr. 1856.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016405", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49591: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LXI (ff. 95). 1. ff. 1-66b. Papers relating to ships in commission and to naval construction; 1855-circa 1860. 2.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016406", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49592: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LXII (ff. 68). Memoranda of Lord Halifax, mostly as First Lord of the Admiralty; 1854-circa 1864. includes: ff. 1,…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002016407", "parent" : "036-002016381", "text" : "Add MS 49593: HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. LXIII (ff. 48). Plans of harbours and dockyards, etc., and other oversize documents, with some of their enclosing…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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Add MS 49531-49552 : A. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Add MS 49553 : B. FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE 49553. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 200). Family correspondence of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax;…
Add MS 49554-49561 : C. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 49554-49561. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XXIV-XXXI. General correspondence of Lord Halifax; 1816-1889.…
Add MS 49562-49570 : D. ADMIRALTY LETTER BOOKS 49562-49570. HALIFAX PAPERS. Vols. XXXII-XL. Letter Books of Lord Halifax as First Lord of…
Add MS 49571-49593 : E. NAVAL PAPERS.

 

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Board of Admiralty: Manuscripts presented through, in 1957.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin; 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Halifax: Presented, in 1957.

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Wood, Charles, 1st Viscount Halifax, statesman, 1800-1885
Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley, 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Halifax, politician and diplomat, 1881-1959