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Add MS 20203
- Record Id:
- 032-002090465
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002090465
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x000190
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 20203
- Title:
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PRIVATE and official correspondence of Sir Hudson Lowe and Major Gorrequer, Military Secretary, with the Foreign Commissioners at St. Helena; July 1816-Sept. 1822; viz., Baron Stürmer, for Austria, ff. 1-85; Count Balmain, for Russia, ff. 86-233;-the Marquis de Montchenu, for France, ff. 235-335. At ff. 336, 338 are two letters from Sir H. Lowe to the Grand Maréchal Count Bertrand and Baron Tuyll [Russian Minister at Rio de Janeiro]; dat. 27 May, 1821. Paper. Folio.
- Scope & Content:
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Gideon Gorrequer, Major and Lieutenant Colonel: Correspondence, while private secretary to Sir H. Lowe, at St. Helena: 1816 - 1821.
Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, GCMG; Governor of St Helena: Official correspondence and papers: 1794-1827.
Island of St Helena: Correspondence and papers of Sir H. Lowe, while Governor: 1815-1824.
Napoleon I of France: Correspondence and papers of Sir H. Lowe relating to Napoleon's life at St. Helena: 1815-1826.
includes:
- ff. 1-85 Sturmer, Baron; Austrian Commissioner at St: Helena. Correspondence with Sir H. Lowe: 1816-1822.
- ff. 27, 36 Philipp Welle, Austrian Botanist: Letter to Baron Stürmer: 1816.: Germ.
- ff. 86-233 Balmain, Count; Russian Commissioner at St Helena: Correspondence with Sir H. Lowe, and others: 1816-1822.
- f. 206 de Gors, Captain, Aide-de-Camp to the Marquis de Montchenu, at St Helena: Letter to Count Balmain: 1819.: Fr.
- ff. 235-335 Victor François de Montchenu, Marquis; French Commissioner at St. Helena: Correspondence with Sir H. Lowe: 1816-1823.: Fr.
- f. 293 de Gors, Captain, Aide-de-Camp to the Marquis de Montchenu, at St Helena: Letter to the Marquis de Montchenu: 1819.: Fr.
- ff.313, 315, 317 General Charles Tristan de Montholon, Marquis de Montholon: Correspondence with Marquis de Montchenu: 1820.: Fr.
- f. 336 Comte Henri Gratien Bertrand,; French general: Correspondence with Sir H. Lowe and others at St. Helena: 1816-1821.: Fr.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002090465
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002090465
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1816
- End Date:
- 1822
- Date Range:
- Jul 1816-Sep 1822
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Balmain, Aleksandr Antonovich, Count, Russian Commissioner on Saint Helena, bef 1798- c 1848
Bertrand, Henri Gratien, Comte French general
Gorrequer, Gideon, army officer and military secretary to Sir Hudson Lowe, ?1781-1841
Gors, Jean-Claude, army officer and aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montchenu on St Helena, b 1889
Lowe, Hudson, army officer and colonial governor; KCB; GCMG; Governor of St Helena, 1769-1844
Montchenu, Victor François, Marquis, French Commissioner at St. Helena
Montholon, Charles Tristan de, General Marquis de Montholon
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Sturmer, Baron, Austrian Commissioner at St
Welle, Philipp, Austrian Botanist - Places:
- St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean