Add MS 73846

Walpole Papers. Vol. lxxvii. ( ff.) Bound volume, numbered 16B and volume 17: " Letters & Papers/ from Lord Walpole/ and others/ during his Embassy at Paris/ and the Congresses/ of Cambray and Soissons. "; miscellaneous correspondence and papers; not in chronological order; drafts and fair copies of letters and papers, some in Walpole's hand, including a few copies of letters to Fleury, Chauvelin and Morville; with enclosures; some earlier and later items bound in; one paper of 12 Dec. 1725 is endorsed by Coxe: " belongs to Lord Harr[ington? ] "; topics besides the congresses include the employment of a spy, and Jacobite plots, including intrigues in Britain; with two letters partly on the same subject from C. Delafaye, 1722; together with Walpole's Instructions as Ambassador at Paris, 13 Jan. 1724, signed by George I; among some stray letters is a copy by Walpole of a letter from the latter to Lord Sunderland, 13 Sept. 1720, concerning Irish patronage; see Irish papers and Sir Robert Walpole's papers below for other similar material; some papers imperf.; cypher; annotated in part by Coxe and others; on inside covers, printed imperf. proceedi ngs of the House of Commons, n.d. [ late 18th cent. ? ]; 1720 - 1739, n.d.; ( main diplomatic series 1724 - Nov. 1728 ).