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032-002016879

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032-002016879

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Add MS 49979-49992

Title:

LETTER BOOKS OF RICHARD COLLEY WELLESLEY, MARQUESS WELLESLEY, as Foreign Secretary; 1809-1812. Comprise despatches, partly written on his behalf by William Richard Hamilton, Permanent Under Secretary, to, as well as received from, British Ambassadors and Ministers to the countries listed below. Each volume bears an original ink pagination. Supplement Add. MSS. 12564-13915, 37274-37318, 37414-37416. Annotated in pencil by Robert Montgomery Martin (signatures on fly-leaf of each volume) passim, apparently for a proposed but never published edition. Presented by Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, K.G.

Fourteen volumes. Folio.

Scope & Content:

Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: Letter-books, as Foreign Sec.,: 1809-1812.

George III of England: Correspondence of Lord Wellesley as Foreign Sec: 1809-1812: Copies and abstracts.

Robert Montgomery Martin, writer and traveller: Manuscripts annotated by: n.d.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

14 items

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1809

End Date:

1812

Date Range:

1809-1812

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Custodial History:

Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington: Presented, in 1959.

Material Type:

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Not Public Record(s)

Names:

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1738-1820
Martin, Robert Montgomery, writer and traveller
Wellesley, Gerald, 7th Duke of Wellington
Wellesley, Richard Colley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, 1760-1842